Lou McGopher
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This is one reason why I'm glad my XD has a loaded chamber indicator.
9 mm FMJ Point Blank Gunshot Wound (Warning - GRAPHIC PICS!!)
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FlyinBryan
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a refreshing and open minded view. very impressed with how you laid out what this lesson should be, and i couldnt agree more.
to some it has been an all too real vision of what can happen to any of us should we ever let our guard down.
i said to some.
jimsmith80
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Who cleans their Glock after every range time? Maybe I abuse and neglect my guns but unless you are shooting corosive stuff in it they don't need to be cleaned that often. I haven taken on (a G 19) up to 3000 rounds without cleaning and it still worked just as good. I just got bored and cleaned it.
Noticed that you still had your ring on...most of the time we like to remove jewlery from an injured hand as it tends to swell. If the ring is left on it could restrict circulation to the finger. I can't tell you how many rings I have cut off when folks didn't remove them ASAP.
KDA You are going to have to post pictures as your hand heals, hopefully soon. I took my young children to the range and brought a watermelon and a gallon of cheap koolaid. "This is what happens when you play with guns" they shot the gallon jug and watermelon with my 1911 and they exploded. Useful lesson, your picture will go into my learn from some else folder. Thanks for posting.
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Double Naught Spy
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And while it may be your fault alone, the repetition with which this happens with Glocks would seem to indicate that it is a design flaw at least in the sense that the trigger must be pulled at a time when folks have no intention of discharging the gun.
And it is one of the weaker aspects of safety programs.
But you just did in the line above that statement...
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Nate1778
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Funny you mention that, I had an encounter with a Cabinet saw about a year ago that took off pretty much the tip of every finger on the left hand. First thing the 8 month pregnant with twins wife told me to do after she recovered from the blood. She doesn't take blood well, but she did say if I didn't take it off then they would cut it off, and you know how woman can get about "The Ring".
Bass Killer
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Thats a pretty nice wound for a FMJ. What brand of 9mm Ammo was it?
cracked junior
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Glock is not the only handgun with this design. My Springfield XD 45.acp also requires the trigger pull to tear down.
I can't believe Nobody has said it yet!
If it was a .45 you wouldn't have a hand ! Kidding of course.
I saw a wound like this that was caused by a gentleman trying to clear a jammed LLAMA .45.
He had his hand on the front of the slide and was hitting the grip of the gun.
Best I can figure, the stuck casing came free and he cycled the gun hitting it. Once it cycle, the surprise of the jam clearing caused him to close is fist around the grip pulling the trigger.
If it was a .45 you wouldn't have a hand ! Kidding of course.
I saw a wound like this that was caused by a gentleman trying to clear a jammed LLAMA .45.
He had his hand on the front of the slide and was hitting the grip of the gun.
Best I can figure, the stuck casing came free and he cycled the gun hitting it. Once it cycle, the surprise of the jam clearing caused him to close is fist around the grip pulling the trigger.
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c919
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Thats not too bad... You should see this hangnail I had earlier, its was excruciating!
No, Im just kidding. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. We all make mistakes, and hopefully some of us can learn from others, instead of the hard way.
I hope you feel better soon. Thats one heck of an injury, I know if that happened to me it would be a financial disaster. I hope all you have to worry about is healing up good. Best regards.
No, Im just kidding. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. We all make mistakes, and hopefully some of us can learn from others, instead of the hard way.
I hope you feel better soon. Thats one heck of an injury, I know if that happened to me it would be a financial disaster. I hope all you have to worry about is healing up good. Best regards.
Glad to see you didnt lose a finger or knuckle. I have a mechanism in my brain that WILL NOT let me strip my glock and xd's with with out racking them 5 times before I pull the trigger to complete the take down. Even if I am 500% sure.
Double Naught Spy
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Because sometimes when you pick up a weapon, you want to shoot it?
bigione
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God bless and good luck. Your bad luck better be behind you!! How did you type thsi post? Ond handed?
Shung
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So does a glock too..
kda
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OK, here it is almost closed. This picture was taken May 22nd. The incident occurred April 29th. You can see I'm a fast healer. I am lucky that way too, I guess. The wound is now totally closed but the hand surgeon said the nerves would take much longer to return to normal feeling and function and he was sure right about that. He estimated (from his experiences) that nerve repair might take four months.
To that fellow who mentioned the ring, I did take it off very soon after I took the pictures.
The thing about this discussion that surprised me most was the number folks who are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that they are "too smart", "too careful" or "too whatever" for something like this to ever happen to them. To those who are so sure they are a 'god' and feel the need to pontificate about how "this and that" you are ... I worry for you. That "attitude" perfectly describes me right up to when I looked down and saw this hole in my palm. I hope that you actually are as great as you think you are ... no one needs a humility lesson like the one I gave myself.
You can click on the smaller picture if you want to see a picture that is almost full size.
To those who are human and gave me some room for human frailties .. THANKS!
To those who wished me a quick and complete recovery .. THANKS!
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Hi kda,
Glad to see things have been healing up so nicely..!
Yahhh...'Nerves' can and will take a while to re-esabilsh themselves...and or a percentage will be back on line at some point, as the remainder continues to slowly re-establish over many Months.
I agree with your observaion about how being haughty dismissive or 'Not me!' is not a good attitude.
We are all potentially fallible...and insisting for ourselves, to be methodical, and consistant, even Ritualizing the moves and observances, in all our particular Safety Practices, is merely practical Wisdom, or, the widsom of experience...the wisdom of prudence.
Glad to see things have been healing up so nicely..!
Yahhh...'Nerves' can and will take a while to re-esabilsh themselves...and or a percentage will be back on line at some point, as the remainder continues to slowly re-establish over many Months.
I agree with your observaion about how being haughty dismissive or 'Not me!' is not a good attitude.
We are all potentially fallible...and insisting for ourselves, to be methodical, and consistant, even Ritualizing the moves and observances, in all our particular Safety Practices, is merely practical Wisdom, or, the widsom of experience...the wisdom of prudence.
I'm one of the "haughty" I guess but I stand by my original statement, You clear ( by clear I mean drop the magazine lock the action open and visually inspect the chamber and ensure that you see light) every firearm you touch, every time you touch it and things like this don't happen.
Say what you will, I haven't blown a hole in my anatomy yet.
Say what you will, I haven't blown a hole in my anatomy yet.
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