Your worst injury

[RavenVT100]

A lot of posts so far and none mentioning the Garand. Strange

 

[Tamara]

RavenVT100,

A lot of posts so far and none mentioning the Garand.

Read through again...

 

[Battlespace]

About 35 years ago I had an AH1 (Cobra) hover directly over my position at about 100 feet and fire up a suspected ambush location with his 7.62 minigun. I had hot brass cover me. Not a fun experience.

 

[Kramer Krazy]

I think the only firearm induced injuries I've had was finger or hand parts pinched by moving parts. I will tell you what the dumbest thing I ever did, though.....

I was about 8 or 9 years old and knew where my dad kept his guns and ammo. I grabbed some shotgun shells and some 22LR ammo and went out to the garage where I decided to use the drill press to drill holes though the casings. I remember drilling holes on the sides of the 22 brass, and even through the bottom of the case. I never had one go off, but the more I've thought about it over the years, I was damn lucky!

 

[HankL]

I got sunburned at a highpower match. Does that count?

 

[Ivy Mike]

Hmm, my worst gun related injuries..

First was when a friend and I were plinking in the desert. We threw a golfball on the ground about 15 yards away. He shot first (with .22s) and managed to hit the ball in a way to make it roll back towards us. I aimed at the rolling ball, fired and hit a nearby rock. The .22 ricocheted back and hit my left cheek. Thankfully, it had lost most of its velocity and a good portion of the bullet mass. I would up with an interesting cut. Good reason to be sure of your backstop.

Second time was when I was removing the mag brake from my CZ75B. I was trying to drive out the bottom pin with the mag well pointed at my face. I was looking down the empty mag well. Well, the pin popped out and the round chunk of steel the the pin fits into (don't know the name of the part) flew out from a spring decompressing. Hit me right above my right eye.
I wore a small knot there for a few days. Drew a little blood too.

-edit- Just had another gun related injury tonight. I was stripping down my Yugo mauser. I cleared the gun and held it in front of me, barrel aimed up. I opened the bolt and then pulled the release lever. Thump! Right onto my...um...private area. Not a good feeling.
Luckily, I've got a nice cool bottle of Arrogant Bastard Ale making me feel better. I thought the name suited the "genius" handling the guns.

 

[keano44]

This constant ringing in my ears is definitely the worst gun injury I've ever suffered.

 

[30Cal]

1. Bit in the forehead by a low eye relief scope on a .338 mag.

2. M1 thumb (you must make sure the bolt isn't just perched on the follower like a beartrap).

Ty

 

[N.M. Edmands]

Dislocated support side pinky finger. In a class, on range doing type 3 corrections.
Had just switched from my mdl.23 to my mdl.22 because of a loose rear sight.
Locked the slide, stripped the mag, and came over the top to rack rack rack.
Only 3 fingers and a thumb showed up for the party! Pinky was in the mag well, but I didn't realize why this particular drill felt odd until I was back on target---
With my pinky dangling at a strange angle--- Finished the class, but sure was hampered.

 

[cfabe]

Worst injury was when I was probably 7 or 8 in indian guides. We were shooting some sort of pellet or BB guns that were spring actuated. The details are blurry, but I was resetting the spring with a long lever on the gun, hand slipped off and the lever came back and got me right in the eye. Had a good shiner from that one, I think it may have even drew a little blood.

 

[Jake]

Too young. Too much gun. Not enough eye relief on the scope. Bled like crazy.

 

[entropy]

Had so many of them. Like Darkmind, if it's issue, I've probably slammed a digit or two it. M1 Thumb! the latest was similar to Tamara's, I took a bullet fragment from a .308 in my philtrum , (that's the part area in one's mustache, or the middle of the lip) just below the nose. Suprisingly, it didn't hurt right off, it was just numb. It hurt about ten minutes after I pulled it out, though! I have a scar to remind me why we don't do rapid fire in the test fire tube! Remember, eyes and ears, people! Wear them!

 

[Jrob24]

Very minor injury. I was careless about hand position while bump firing my WASR10. The charging handle came back and cut my hand.

edit: Just received a small blister from firing a smith 642 snubbie

 

[Freedomv]

When I was a teenager I got something very close to an M-1 thumb. I had a Browning auto 12 Ga. on my lap inspecting it.( read - monkeying with it) and somehow managed to push the bolt release while my right thumb was near the bolt with its exposed extractor. It reached right out and bit me and it hurt. Once was enough I was and am a lot more cautious to this day.

A friend of mine told about having an old top break revolver when he was a kid and he and his buddy decided to make a magnum load by removing the powder from one round of ammo and placing it in with another, thus making a double charge. When his buddy fired it the action came open and the case fired out of the cylinder and struck hid friend in the forehead. he said it left a nice reverse head stamp impression on his forehead.

When I was growing up back in the 50's and 60's a lot of kids lost an eye to a BB when they had BB gun fights etc. These were not angery fights but more like todays paint ball fights. You don't hear of this happening any more. Now you hear about kids killing each other.

Over the years I have heard of or witnessed a lot of things. One of the funniest was when a fellow next to me in the pits had a 30 caliber ricochet land next to him and he picked it up to examine it. EEEYAWWWW !! It doesn't take too long to examine a fresh hot ricochet.

Vern

 

[NC Shooter]

So far the greatest injury has been to my pride.

 

[stealthmode]

i stubbed my pinky toe

 

[simmonsguns]

this took a bit of thinking,so many wounds so few brain cells.buckshot left over from a robbery when running a donut shop,robber did not get away,thank you KCPD.chunk of bullit in right side from test fire.dent in forhead from brother and pellet gun(he paid for that one with a broken broom handle in the leg)correction,we bolth paid for that from dad.oh,and carving forend tip on ruger #1,chisel through right forefinger,8 stiches,next day,cut arm on sheet metal,12 stiches and drilled through right hand.all in one week.all of the other injuries are normal part of me and youth.

 

[swan hunter]

Senior in High School...Going hunting with a friend with a beagle...He brings goofus from our class...We hunt...He shoots blindly into honeysuckle vines...Nails me with a 12 ga #6 shot. About 45 pellets still around my thy bones! Dang near got my liver and privates...3 days in hospital...That was a bad one!

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Scope-eye from .375 H&H mag.
Hot 10mm case down back of tucked-in shirt
Facial damage from bullet of ill-timed .44 mag.

Those were the worst compared to many pinches, burns, hammer bites, etc.

But I agree with an above post that the worst damage I suffered was hearing loss.

 

[Bemidjiblade]

nothing much...

Other than getting the webbing of a finger caught closing the breach of my shotgun... nuthin...
Starting to think I got off easy. Then again... I'm much more of a swords person anyway.

 

[gbran]

Mosin blowup..........

I had an aftermarket muzzle brake on the end of my Nagant. It must not have been properly aligned and it blew apart sending the main piece downrange and sharpnel back to my right eye, cheekbone and eyebrow. BTW, I was wearing eye protection. I had a scarred, but painfully long and complete recovery.

 

[landon74]

Mine are pretty minor in comparison with a lot of these, but the most painful was earlier this year at the range, I was fire forming some brass in my 338-06 AI, and a guy comes along and sets up a position or two to the left of me. He breaks out a semi auto .22 and is happily blasting away. I'm getting pelted with hot brass, and getting a little upset about it. I turn to say something to him about it, and I literally catch a piece of hot brass with my lips. I didn't think too much about it, since it was only .22, I mean what harm could it do? I've been hit with hot .223 brass and had it go down my shirt, which sucks in it's own right. When I go to leave, I go use the rest room, look in the mirror and both of my lips are all blistered up. I go home and my wife makes me pop the blisters. It takes about a week for my lips to heal, every time I eat something with any sort of salt or acidity in it, it burns like fire. All from a stupid piece of .22 LR brass.

 

[Marnoot]

Learned the hard way that when you have the trigger assembly off an M1, don't drop the hammer with a finger in the way of the trigger guard, snaps up right quick; that bruised good. Almost gotten M1 thumb, but got my thumb out in time; the bolt was sneakily hung up on the follower, rather than locked back as I thought, like 30cal's incident. Learned the front sight on a K98 ain't exacty dull; didn't bleed too bad though. I've gotten plenty other pinches and little cuts from cleaning and dis/reassembling guns, but thankfully nothing too bad.

 

[Phil Ca]

An M1 thumb in basic at Fort Ord in February of 1956.

 

[Justang]

shot in the eye with a bb gun.
my eye filled with blood and I was blind in the eye for about a week.




A Christsmas Story comes to mind.... "you'll shoot your eye out." :banghead: