Ever hurt by a firearm?
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Leafy Cronmer
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Cleaning a Colt Detective Special, I released the hammer down on the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger. It hurt but nothing to bad, the bigger problem was now the hammer couldn't go forward because my skin jammed in it and I couldn't pull the hammer back either. So after a while i just had to pull and when it finally ripped out, now that hurt.
MinnMooney
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Tens of thousands of rounds and never a black eye from the scope! I dropped the hammer of an H&R .22LR revolver on my thumb and slightly pinched it. Th-th-that's all folks.
Now if you're talkin' bullets, there was the time that a stray 20mm cannon ball....................... but that's another story.
Now if you're talkin' bullets, there was the time that a stray 20mm cannon ball....................... but that's another story.
Leafy Cronmer
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I understand that inert wounds was the goal. "Butt" thought this was funny, took some hot brass into the collar of my undershirt. Wiggled around for a bit to stop it from burning, finally got it loose and it proceeded down my shirt landing square in my ass crack, got a nice burn and blister for later.
bwsmith2850
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The ever popular .45 hammer bite. And some slide bite from a too high grip on a small auto.
War Squirrel
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I'm left eye dominant, so I tend to shoot long guns left handed, handguns right handed. Weird eh?
Anyway, I have a tendency of wrapping my thumb around my Maverick 88 stock too far, and being a light framed person, the recoil pushes me back pretty good. I've busted myself in the nose quite a few times like that.
Anyway, I have a tendency of wrapping my thumb around my Maverick 88 stock too far, and being a light framed person, the recoil pushes me back pretty good. I've busted myself in the nose quite a few times like that.
martywj
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OK, you guys may not believe this, but true.
Seventeen years old, working at a grocery store as a sack boy. Store gets held up. Robber hits me on the left side of the head and ear with the revolver he is using. Bleed like stuck pig, get a trip to the hospital at my mothers insistance. At 61 I still have the scar on my left ear. Don't know if they ever caught the guys or not. I do remember having to go to the police for a lineup, but I really could't tell them much as the guy had a womans stocking over his head.
BTW, I have the usual slide scars on my plam from my PT140 and my wife's PT709.
Marty
Seventeen years old, working at a grocery store as a sack boy. Store gets held up. Robber hits me on the left side of the head and ear with the revolver he is using. Bleed like stuck pig, get a trip to the hospital at my mothers insistance. At 61 I still have the scar on my left ear. Don't know if they ever caught the guys or not. I do remember having to go to the police for a lineup, but I really could't tell them much as the guy had a womans stocking over his head.
BTW, I have the usual slide scars on my plam from my PT140 and my wife's PT709.
Marty
nofishbob
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My 14 year old son and I were cleaning a new 12 gauge 870 Express before firing it for the first time. This was our first experience with a shotgun. I decided to remove the choke, using the stamped steel tool that comes with the gun to break the choke loose.
While I finished unscrewing the choke by hand with the gun vertical we both remarked about the strange oil that Remington puts on their chokes at the factory....The choke was covered in it!
You probably guessed that this "oil" was actually my blood! The burrs on the end of the choke were so sharp that I had cut my thumb and forefinger pretty deeply without feeling it at all.
After I got some band aids, I carefully removed those burrs to prevent a repeat performance.
We laughed about the special "Remington choke oil" for quite a while after that.
Bob
While I finished unscrewing the choke by hand with the gun vertical we both remarked about the strange oil that Remington puts on their chokes at the factory....The choke was covered in it!
You probably guessed that this "oil" was actually my blood! The burrs on the end of the choke were so sharp that I had cut my thumb and forefinger pretty deeply without feeling it at all.
After I got some band aids, I carefully removed those burrs to prevent a repeat performance.
We laughed about the special "Remington choke oil" for quite a while after that.
Bob
WALKERs210
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Does it count if it the gun belonged to someone else? And they were using it as a club? Got the scars on forehead and cross the face from the butt back in 68 if it counts
Oh the guy with the gun got shot in the end
Oh the guy with the gun got shot in the end
PedalBiker
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Minor cuts and pinches here and there, but the worst was when I put a scope on my Mossberg 500 for slugs. It wasn't technically a scope bite since it was the frame from my glasses that drew blood. The scope got the worst end of the bargain, though. The plastic ring on the ocular lens was busted off and the reticle had come loose to boot. I hadn't fired anything more than a .22 with a scope at that point.
mbopp
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I have an Ithaca M37 12ga that has an undersize magazine tube. I was shooting reloads and had one stick in the tube. I took the barrel off, unscrewed the end cap, dumped the spring and plunger, and was beating it out with a big dowel. It came free and my pinky finger came down hard on the end of the magazine tube. Cut it half way around so it's off to the ER for a few stitches. The hospital folks wanted to file a police report since it was 'firearms related." Fortunatly one of the residents was a shooter and talked them out of it.
nwilliams
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I've been emotionally hurt many times by firearms after I looked at the price tag.
Leafy Cronmer
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nwilliams, i share your hurt
hatchetbearer
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Scope eye first time shooting a .300 win mag.
when i was a kid, i tried to shoot a PGO shotgun held up to eye level.
in Boot camp, i shut my thumb inside the charging handle on an m16.
a buddy tried taking a 240 apart with the bolt to the rear. operating rod and spring hit me in the glasses.
while preforming 72-day maintenance on a feeder for an m197 my thumb slipped off and got stuck in the gears.
ive also had the drive motor fall harder than expected into the "boys"
when i was a kid, i tried to shoot a PGO shotgun held up to eye level.
in Boot camp, i shut my thumb inside the charging handle on an m16.
a buddy tried taking a 240 apart with the bolt to the rear. operating rod and spring hit me in the glasses.
while preforming 72-day maintenance on a feeder for an m197 my thumb slipped off and got stuck in the gears.
ive also had the drive motor fall harder than expected into the "boys"
Sunray
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"...Ever hurt by a firearm?..." Nope. Inanimate objects can't hurt you nor anybody else. Getting bit when using a firearm is operator failure. Garand thumb is caused by failing to load the rifle correctly. Usually happens when closing an empty rifle incorrectly.
"...shoot long guns left handed, handguns right handed. Weird eh?..." Nope. Perfectly normal for me too. Left master eye? Makes you a latent cavalry type. Sabre in your right hand, carbine in the left, reins in your teeth. Not being able to ride means nothing. Cavalry is a state of mind.
"...shoot long guns left handed, handguns right handed. Weird eh?..." Nope. Perfectly normal for me too. Left master eye? Makes you a latent cavalry type. Sabre in your right hand, carbine in the left, reins in your teeth. Not being able to ride means nothing. Cavalry is a state of mind.
carbuncle
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I had poor form the first time I shoulder-fired a 12-gauge and ended up with a sizable bruise for my trouble.
first real gun.. 20 gauge that was too long for me to hold correctly... stock under the arm and a trigger pull later I had a bloody nose...
first time I shot a scoped 30-06, you guessed it. Scope eye.. didnt even notice it until I looked into a mirror several minutes later and had a perfect semi-circle over my eye.
boring, but that is just about it.
first time I shot a scoped 30-06, you guessed it. Scope eye.. didnt even notice it until I looked into a mirror several minutes later and had a perfect semi-circle over my eye.
boring, but that is just about it.
Kimber45acp
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I suggest a rewording there. Those are definitely chinese finger-cuffs that we've all been unable to resist at least once.owen said:
The stupid front sight on Ruger's .22/45 is like a fish hook (only larger and sharper) for reasons that escape me. The same gun has four, count em FOUR sharp edges on the back by the charging handle. If you're fighting with "dud" rounds, and having to repeatedly pull back the charging handle, expect to get cut by one of the four sharp points. I traded that piece of _______. Good riddance.
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Plain Old Bill
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Broomhandle Boom
Have had M1 thumb, and Hakim hand (much worse) and a plethora of scratches, burns, bruises....but the worst was when a 9mm C96 Mauser went off out of battery. The slug bounced off the breechface, hit me in the sternum leaving one hell of a bruise, and dropped at my feet. The casing, on the other hand, entered my forehead at the hairline and continued rearward along my skull, ending up at the rear of my head between scalp and skull.
You know how head wounds bleed. This is a VERY long story but I'll shorten it dramatically and just throw out a few lowlights- 6 hours in an ER with my 2 kids, who were with me at the range while my wife was unreachably shopping in the city, while the nurses helped them empty the candy machine in the waiting room....a surgeon fresh from the Gulf War being called in and remarking about how tired he was of shrapnel wounds, even in Allentown, PA ....my wife's knees buckling when she first saw me (my scalp had been pulled about an inch off my skull and they were probing for brass, and my clothes were blood-soaked down to my waist...face swollen grotesquely...there's a lot more, but you get the idea. Concussion and minor surgery. Sold that @#$%^&* the first chance I got cheap to a fellow who works on them, he said he was absolutely sure he could fix the problem, and did.
Since, I've acquired another in .30 Mauser. Runs fine.
Have had M1 thumb, and Hakim hand (much worse) and a plethora of scratches, burns, bruises....but the worst was when a 9mm C96 Mauser went off out of battery. The slug bounced off the breechface, hit me in the sternum leaving one hell of a bruise, and dropped at my feet. The casing, on the other hand, entered my forehead at the hairline and continued rearward along my skull, ending up at the rear of my head between scalp and skull.
You know how head wounds bleed. This is a VERY long story but I'll shorten it dramatically and just throw out a few lowlights- 6 hours in an ER with my 2 kids, who were with me at the range while my wife was unreachably shopping in the city, while the nurses helped them empty the candy machine in the waiting room....a surgeon fresh from the Gulf War being called in and remarking about how tired he was of shrapnel wounds, even in Allentown, PA ....my wife's knees buckling when she first saw me (my scalp had been pulled about an inch off my skull and they were probing for brass, and my clothes were blood-soaked down to my waist...face swollen grotesquely...there's a lot more, but you get the idea. Concussion and minor surgery. Sold that @#$%^&* the first chance I got cheap to a fellow who works on them, he said he was absolutely sure he could fix the problem, and did.
Since, I've acquired another in .30 Mauser. Runs fine.
9 yrs old. Shooting with "friends
"....."The Old Daisy Red Rider Trick" of telling me if you leave the lever in the down position it will have more power. Left a really nice crease mark along the tops of my four fingers. Damn thing slams shut like a bear trap. They thought it was pretty funny. I think I managed to bang the one who told me to do it over the head with the butt stock. Thus I introduced him to the "Old BB Gun As A Club Trick".
Good times.....Good times
"....."The Old Daisy Red Rider Trick" of telling me if you leave the lever in the down position it will have more power. Left a really nice crease mark along the tops of my four fingers. Damn thing slams shut like a bear trap. They thought it was pretty funny. I think I managed to bang the one who told me to do it over the head with the butt stock. Thus I introduced him to the "Old BB Gun As A Club Trick". Good times.....Good times
Claymore1500
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Was shooting "Hand thrown clays" with a friend, I was using a single shot 12ga. he threw one before I was ready, I managed to close the gun and brought it up directly on my collar bone and fired.
That serrated plastic butt plate will leave a mark, even thru a t-shirt.
That serrated plastic butt plate will leave a mark, even thru a t-shirt.
MachIVshooter
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Plain old bill-
Wow. I've had a few OOB firings with various pistols, but never anything remotely close to the disater you describe. Holy crap.
Wow. I've had a few OOB firings with various pistols, but never anything remotely close to the disater you describe. Holy crap.
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