Indoor Range head trauma?

[milemaker13]

How are you feeling today?

 

[Hookeye]

Used to shoot on our lunch hour.
Bud from office would call it a " Blue Smoke Elmer Keith memorial Friday ".

That meant indoor range, adjacent lanes, Smith .44 mags w 180s crammed ontop of 31.5gr WW 296.

A minimum of 50 rounds each.

Go back to work w a stupid smile slapped across your face, runny nose and heart flutter.

Ya get used to it.

 

[Zendude]

I would get headaches at indoor ranges occasionally. If my sinuses were a little stuffy, it would result in a headache and some dizziness. Those are the same symptoms I get when my head gets very stuffy from allergies.

 

[herrwalther]

I've had more concussions than I have fingers. Never had that same feeling after a normal session at the range. So I doubt there is head trauma firing normal weapons. If someone is shooting Barrett 50s in the booth next to you, maybe.

 

[Goosey]

I specifically put in my response that the concussive force of a pistol or rifle would have to be high to cause that kind of damage. Honestly though, that's plain cruelty to animals. What a ridiculous study.

Well, they've also used anesthetized pigs as living "ballistic gelatin" for wound studies, so...

 

[NuShootr]

Well, they've also used anesthetized pigs as living "ballistic gelatin" for wound studies, so...

Believe it or not, I've been involved in scientific research of biologics used in would healing. And they don't cause permanent brain injuries in animals, and the animals actually heal from the wounds. Portions of their tissue is removed for microscopic evaluation and data collection. The two are not synonymous.

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

If you're doubled up on your ear pro and having hearing issues thats one thing. You should probably reevaluate things or seek professional advice.

But concussion from muzzle blast is an entirely different thing. I've shot for many years both indoor and out and my personal experience is this; an AR with a muzzle brake next lane over indoors is incredibly obnoxious, to the point where I would stand back outside of the lane and wait for the shooter to finish before shooting. But that doesn't hold a candle to shooting my Axis .308 outdoors. Standing just behind the muzzle spotting for my buddy it FEELS like a cannon going off. And every one of our other friends we've had over confirm the same thing. They hate being on the bench when that gun is being shot.


I don't know what it is about that gun and I know there are much louder calibers but that thing is ridiculous if you're beside it being fired.


Point being, the concussion is real and I imagine varies from gun to person.

 

[Skeptic13]

I know sometimes you don't have a choice but I really don't like shooting indoors. The concussion and the noise drive my nuts when the range is full of people.

 

[rkittine]

Indoors I used custom fitted ear plus with electronic muffs over them.

 

[Palladan44]

How are you feeling today?

Im better. It was about a 24 hour headache.

 

[whughett]

Used to shoot on our lunch hour.
Bud from office would call it a " Blue Smoke Elmer Keith memorial Friday ".

That meant indoor range, adjacent lanes, Smith .44 mags w 180s crammed ontop of 31.5gr WW 296.

A minimum of 50 rounds each.

Go back to work w a stupid smile slapped across your face, runny nose and heart flutter.

Ya get used to it.

And blowing black snot into your handkerchief. One private club indoor range I had membership had just one tiny exhaust fan in front of the firing line. I’d blow my nose after the snot would be black.

 

[jmorris]

Don't get hit in the head by a return target carrier.

You win, OUCH!

 

[sota]

I've had days where I've come back from the indoor range, and my head has felt foggy. They really only have occurred since I had a pretty good concussion from an auto accident a couple years ago.
I always wear plugs and muffs when on the indoor range.

 

[milemaker13]

I do remember that awful taste in my throat/nose after going to the old gun range with my dad. Peppers sports as I recall. Real good old place, I was like 8 or 10 I guess.
I don't think there was a filter system running. Not in winter anyway!