tinygnat219
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Got this from a friend of mine (via E-mail forward):
How NOT to hold a revolver!
A St. Louis, Missouri guy on my AR-15 forum had a bad accident with
his S&W 460XVR Magnum yesterday. He was shooting with a two handed
hold and got his left thumb up near the lower front of the cylinder.
The normal (powerful) gasses blowing out at the barrel/cylinder gap
ripped the top of his left thumb off. I've added some of his posts &
some pics:
S&W 460XVR Magnum
460XVR blew my thumb off today!
No joke, about 1/2 of my left thumb is gone ... what's left is a friggin mess.
It's pretty hard to type, and I'm only posting because you never know,
it might save somebody else a thumb. I was using a 2-handed grip,
fired off a Cor-Bon DPX .460 and the blast came violently out the side
of the gun.
At first my thumb was so covered in blood that I couldn't see how bad
it was ... and I was full of adrenaline and felt no pain. And honestly
it looked really bad, my whole hand was covered in blood and it was
kinda gushing.
The blown-off thumb was on my support hand. I'll re-create the grip
tomorrow to see where my thumb was, but it's not like I didn't already
know not to get any body part near the cylinder gap. And even if I
totally screwed up and did, taking my thumb clean off seems a bit
excessive?
Just be careful with those 460's. That case operates at such high
pressure, it's just asking for trouble.
BTW, I bought my 460 new and had exactly 12 rounds through it. Info
about the gun, it's a full-size 460 with the 8 3/4' barrel and factory
installed compensator. It's one of the Whitetails Unlimited models.
Ammo was 200gr Cor-Bon DPX.
The gun only had 12 or 13 rounds of the Cor-Bon through it, and 10 .45
Long Colt rounds through it. So it was essentially still brand new.
Saw a hand specialist while there today. Lots of ways to try and save
what's left, but first I just have to hope it doesn't get infected in
the next few days ... then surgery early next week.
The hand specialist I spent a few hours with last night said that in
gunshot wounds there is always a lot more damage than is firstvisible
...same with things like fireworks going off in your hand. A lot more
flesh around the wound is dead, and will rot and fall off over the
next couple days. That's why it's so important to keep clean, and
that's also why they can't do surgery now. If they wrapped new skin
over dead skin it would just puss out, possibly turn gang-green, and
they'd have to start all over again.
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Ugly pics:
http://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php?p=7767070&postcount=54
How NOT to hold a revolver!
A St. Louis, Missouri guy on my AR-15 forum had a bad accident with
his S&W 460XVR Magnum yesterday. He was shooting with a two handed
hold and got his left thumb up near the lower front of the cylinder.
The normal (powerful) gasses blowing out at the barrel/cylinder gap
ripped the top of his left thumb off. I've added some of his posts &
some pics:
S&W 460XVR Magnum
460XVR blew my thumb off today!
No joke, about 1/2 of my left thumb is gone ... what's left is a friggin mess.
It's pretty hard to type, and I'm only posting because you never know,
it might save somebody else a thumb. I was using a 2-handed grip,
fired off a Cor-Bon DPX .460 and the blast came violently out the side
of the gun.
At first my thumb was so covered in blood that I couldn't see how bad
it was ... and I was full of adrenaline and felt no pain. And honestly
it looked really bad, my whole hand was covered in blood and it was
kinda gushing.
The blown-off thumb was on my support hand. I'll re-create the grip
tomorrow to see where my thumb was, but it's not like I didn't already
know not to get any body part near the cylinder gap. And even if I
totally screwed up and did, taking my thumb clean off seems a bit
excessive?
Just be careful with those 460's. That case operates at such high
pressure, it's just asking for trouble.
BTW, I bought my 460 new and had exactly 12 rounds through it. Info
about the gun, it's a full-size 460 with the 8 3/4' barrel and factory
installed compensator. It's one of the Whitetails Unlimited models.
Ammo was 200gr Cor-Bon DPX.
The gun only had 12 or 13 rounds of the Cor-Bon through it, and 10 .45
Long Colt rounds through it. So it was essentially still brand new.
Saw a hand specialist while there today. Lots of ways to try and save
what's left, but first I just have to hope it doesn't get infected in
the next few days ... then surgery early next week.
The hand specialist I spent a few hours with last night said that in
gunshot wounds there is always a lot more damage than is firstvisible
...same with things like fireworks going off in your hand. A lot more
flesh around the wound is dead, and will rot and fall off over the
next couple days. That's why it's so important to keep clean, and
that's also why they can't do surgery now. If they wrapped new skin
over dead skin it would just puss out, possibly turn gang-green, and
they'd have to start all over again.
/////////
Ugly pics:
http://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php?p=7767070&postcount=54
