Ever hurt by a firearm?

[rickomatic]

Holy Cow! Less than 2 days of posting and I'm the 101st respondent. I'm not sure any of us should even be allowed around firearms. We are an accident prone bunch to be sure!!

Here's my $.02 worth of gun injury silliness.
While opening up my safe one day while not wearing shoes, my S&W 39 fell out of the top shelf and fell on the top of my foot hammer first. Not sure if it broke anything other than some blood vessels, but that foot swelled up to the point where I couldn't get a shoe on for a couple days, and limped around for a good week. I don't know what hell hurts like, and hope to never find out, but if that pain was anything like what hell's is, I don't want any part of that!!

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Bit by a Mak and got a Black and Blue shoulder several times from 12 gauges and 30-06 rifles.

 

[MyTFAL]

My Romo G AK-47 caught the flesh pad on my left hand while violently charging the bolt handle, I will never,ever forget that....................ow.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

back when i weighed about 115 pounds i bought a 10 gauge got hurt everytime i shot it

 

[Shung]

nail ****ed up by a RPK charging handle why I was putting my weak hand on a wrong spot....

 

[WardenWolf]

Here's one if you're a lefty: AK Thumb. On some AK variants, if you aren't careful, you can get your right hand far back enough that your thumb gets behind the bolt handle. It tears a nice gash in your thumb if you don't notice it before you shoot.

 

[BADSBSNF81]

Yes. M1 Thumb

 

[paintballdude902]

kick can be a b#$%@

 

[docpadds]

Face full of hot unburnt powder from a bad load, glasses took the brunt.

Burns from the gas tube on my AK.

 

[c919]

I dropped my Sig 226 right square on the top of my big toe while wearing nothing but socks. That day really sucked.

 

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

Once I was seeing how the magazine follower and slide stop interacted in my gun, and I thought it would be a good idea, with the slide locked back to push down on the follower with my index finger.

Of course, the slide snapped shut on my finger, and the extractor punched righ into my skin.

 

[BluesDancer]

Yes. Once while at the range, as I was racking the slide of my M9, some skin got caught in the ejection port by accident, giving me an open wound near my thumb. At that point, I had 1 box of ammo left and used it up by firing with one hand. it actually was a positive experience for me because it taught me to practice shooting more than I do now specifically with one hand, both sides. One should be prepared for the contingency that a hand may be disabled when you need it most.

It also taught me how to improvise operating an autoloader with one hand even though autoloaders are usually easier to operate with two hands.

 

[Aquila]

Racking a Les Baer Thunder Ranch and cut my hand... Why are they so damned tight?

Shooting a Sako Mountain Gun in 7mm Remington Magnum. It beat my arse one afternoon.

Shooting a friend's Steyr SSG PIIK with it's short eye relief (Hensoldt 10X optic) and it "scope bit" me leaving my orbit a bit sore for a few days.

Shot a buddy's S&W 629 Mountain Gun (.44 Magnum). He gave me 50 cartridges. My hands were sore at shot number 40...

Shot a S&W 340PD with full power .357 Magnum. Tried to shoot a cylinder. Stopped at shot number 4. NO thanks....

 

[JohnBT]

Hurt?

Not since I bugged my father one time too many to shoot his Winchester Model 12 20 gauge. I was five and when it fired he caught the gun (he was supporting it anyway) and I sat down real hard in the middle of the dirt road in front of my grandparents' home.

John

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I received that ubiquitous superfluous eyebrow a couple of times from the former scope on my Marlin 45-70. I've since replaced the scope with one with much longer eye relief.

I've also gouged those tell-tale grooves into the thumb web of my shooting hand - signs that I had gripped my Walther PPK/S(Interarms) a little too high.

I gouged the thumb nail on my left hand by wrapping that thumb over the back of my right while shooting my Kimber. Like what happened with my Walther, it's one of those things you only do once. I'm proud to say that I now have "slide awareness".

Woody

 

[hogshead]

Pistol grip Moss 500 with 3 inch slugs,My brother in law thought it would be funny.Jammed my thumb into my chest so hard I thought it had broke my ribs. I smiled and gave it to him, the tang safety ate the fleshy part between his thumb and index finger up. Fair enough!

 

[RippinSVT]

I once shot a youth-sized 20ga while shooting with my gf's young cousin and the reciever smashed my face HARD. Lesson learned...length of pull critical.