Worst injuries\days at the range?

[tuckerdog1]

Was once paying too much attention to making a good shot, and not enough attention to controlling the recoil of a FA 454. Gun came back, and the hammer spur hit me right between the eyebrows. Had blood running down my face & broke my favorite pair of shooting glasses. Had a mark on my forehead that looked like the hammer for about a week.

Also, had to re-learn that you don't put any part of your hand up next to the front of a revolver cylinder. Lucky that was with a 357, and only had a nice burn. If it had been the 454, I might have one less digit.

Tuckerdog1

 

[NotSoFast]

My worst injury has been a skinned knuckle on my left hand from getting too high on the slide with it.

My worst day was cleaning my Mini-14 and having a patch hang up in the bore. Not having a rod available I had to pack up the Mini for the day. I still had my pistol though, so the say was not lost. When I got home it was a simple case of rodding the barrel to get the wedged patch out.

 

[Rugerlvr]

My worst day was cleaning my Mini-14 and having a patch hang up in the bore. Not having a rod available I had to pack up the Mini for the day.

How did you get a patch in the bore without a rod?

 

[NotSoFast]

"How did you get a patch in the bore without a rod?"

I was using the Otis kit with the pull through cable. The patch came off midway down the barrel even though I had secured it the way you're supposed to.

 

[Old Fud]

I was teaching my girl friend how to shoot, using a semi-auto pistol.
She crossed her thumbs behind the slide.
I stopped her before she could fire, and showed her how to hold her left hand with thumb forward of right thumb, both pointing at the target.

When she fired, the bottom edge of the slide slit her left thumb wide open.

I still feel badly about that.

Fud

P.S. She doesn't like semi-autos anyway. The way they fling brass around is just plain "rude".

 

[SHavis]

I have a few stories...
First: I was 11-12 years old at my uncle Red's farm. He had a problem with too many turtles in his pond and asked if I'd go down an erradicate them. SURE!! I said. He, my Dad, and I walked down to the pond, Uncle Red carrying what I thought was a really cool deer rifle. He chambered the round for me and said the turtles will peek up for air and a look around in s few minutes and handed me the rifle. A few minutes later, sure enough, there's a turtle. I line up the scope (it had a cool round circle in the recticle) and pull the trigger. I'm sure I got the turtle. Uncle Red though it would be neato (and funny...always the practicle joker!) to get a turtle with a .460 Weatherby Mag. I only got the one, though. I think I still have a bruse.

Second, and a little more serious: Dad and I were at the pistol range, again me being early teenager. We are shooting the Colt 1911 (I still have!) and a few misc revolvers all alone during the weekday. A guy wanders up to a lane taking what appears to be a brand new big (model 29?) revolver out of the box and a couple boxes of ammo. After he affixed his target and the range went live (no range master, just us) he pointed that big gun down range, lit one off and solidly whacked himself in the forehead with the rear site. He never looked over at us. Just packed up his gun and ammo and walked out. I'm just guessing here, but I bet he traded that back in.

 

[KiltedClaymore]

saw a dude (yuppy) try and impress his friends by one-hand firing a .50AE with a red dot. that red dot smacked into his skull, and he went down. lots of blood

 

[Cosmoline]

Not long after he was sent on his way from the Division.

Probably working for MSNBC as a combat expert now!

 

[tn-dave]

Stapled my finger through the back side of the target; learned not to do that again

Me too..The first thing I remembered when I read the title

 

[Aren't we all]

With the exception of Jard's linked article staplings, powder burns and hot cases and DWARREN123"s near miss you guys are luckier than me (I've had to dig shot out of my arm)

 

[murph50]

When I got my P3at I had a slight mental lapse on the first shot and crossed my thumbs behind the slide.I had been shooting a revolver and forgot to change my grip. Nice little gash and it bled real good too. I won't do that again.
Other than that --I've gotten a sore trigger finger a few times when I shoot too much at the range

 

[ufstuddmuffin]

i've caught a few casings in the collar of my polo... a nice dance and jig later and everything is back to normal

 

[KiltedClaymore]

while working at a shooting range, my boss shot me with a staple gun in the hand. does that count? worse thing was, it was on purpous(spelling?)

 

[BridgeWalker]

All these stale and paper cut injuries! I've thus far been able to avoid the hazards of staple guns and paper targets.

I have gotten pretty dehydrated on a hot day.

But sadly, the past couple of months, powder fumes and cigarette smoke have given me a lot of asthma problems when shooting.