7.62x25 + spinner targets = frag yourself

[Navy_Guns]

OUCH!

I just got the invoice from the emergency room - if I hadn't had insurance, this joyful experience would have set me back over $4,000. It's hard to believe the xrays alone were almost $3,500? Makes me wish I had my own xray machine, I could make $20,000 an hour with it.

BE CAREFUL!

 

[wilkersk]

Hey LT,

Those Xrays, even if you just had a 2view skull, bilateral lower extremity, and 1 upper extremity, 2 views each, that's eight images that have to be properly produced by a skilled technologist, using sophisticated digital equipment, and interpreted by a Radiologist (the MD the patient almost never meets in person), and then coded and billed by a whole staff of people who get paid to make sure that the hospital and the radiology practice get reimbursed by the insurance companies (who invented the term "weasel word").

If you had a Cat Scan of your head, which in many ER would be automatic for a shrapnel wound to the skull, that would be a whole heck of a lot more.

As it is, the "sticker price" is seldom the amount that is actually settled on once the insurance companies and the hospitals settle.

 

[aka108]

Talking about med. bills, I recently just came home from 2 mos in hosp. and 4 mos inpatient for PT. Bills totaled in excess of 2 million bucks. Medicare and Tricare for Life paid just a little over 10% of the retail price as full settlement. Either way, without insurance I'd of been four letter worded.

 

[Hatterasguy]

Yeah 5 yards is raelly to close for metal targets.

25 yards is pushing it with some rounds, I heard one guy had a ricochet at a range shooting at steel targets with an AK74.


I think fast light bullets would tend to bounce around more.

 

[Navy_Guns]

Those x-rays could have been interpreted by Barnie Fife - "Yessir, you got a radio-opaque foreign object right THERE next to your humerus! You been shot!"

So, what have we learned here?

1) Shooting metal targets with any jacketed round can be hazardous.
2) Shooting metal targets that have craters or other damage will be hazardous eventually.
3) Wear your safety glasses
4) Hurting yourself is expensive.

 

[wilkersk]

Those x-rays could have been interpreted by Barnie Fife - "Yessir, you got a radio-opaque foreign object right THERE next to your humerus! You been shot!"

So, what have we learned here?

1) Shooting metal targets with any jacketed round can be hazardous.
2) Shooting metal targets that have craters or other damage will be hazardous eventually.
3) Wear your safety glasses
4) Hurting yourself is expensive.

And, after "Barnie" reads em, you can come back in a couple of weeks with osteomyelitis and necrotizing faciitis because guess what(?) he missed something. Gunshot wounds are not as cut and dry as you think.

OTH, shooting metal targets with jacketed rounds doesn't have to be dangerous, if you observe a few safety precautions. #1 save the Tokarev for those menacing paper silhouttes standing in front of dirt berms.

 

[Navy_Guns]

I do wish I could re-name the thread, because the round and the gun were not the cause for my accident. For the price, I absolutely LOVE that pistol, it shoots very well. And the $84 per 1,250 rounds delivered makes it all the nicer. Hey - there's a thought... I saved enough on my bulk ammo purchase to cover my hospital co-pay! WIN!!!

 

[wilkersk]

I have a CZ52 which I really enjoy shooting.

Is that MILSURP ammo you're getting corrosive? Where are you getting it from?

I'm buying Winchester whitebox at around $20 for a bx of 50. But, I've heard that it is just repackaged Czech ammo.

 

[Ed Ames]

So, what have we learned here?

1) The term "frag" has been watered down to the point of meaninglessness.
2) Some people will shoot spinner targets at 5 yards w/ high velocity FMJ ammo.

I would add "stupid hurts" but I didn't learn it here -- taught myself that one years ago.