Member learns valuable lesson after range accident results in injury

[mrwood]

Some good advice & good stories !

... then he got "jiggy" and flipped the selector and sent ~ 10 rounds down range with one trigger pull. The cases ALL went down the front of my shirt while I did the twisty worm trying to pull the bottom of my shirt out while squirming back from the line.​

Sorry, but this one made me laugh !!
10 hot cases = the 'twisty worm'

 

[Hanzerik]

That kind of incident was the only thing I disliked about firing M16/M4 for qualification. It was inevitable that you would get at least hit with hot brass or have a few cases going down the back of your collar.

I've had nice burns on my neck, crook of the elbows, and around my wrists.

 

[Packman]

I wear a cowboy hat instead of a ballcap. It keeps the hot cases out of the back of my shirt as well as off my face.

It's saved a couple of times. Since the front of the brim curves down, when I put my head to the stock, it creates a very small gap off to the side. It's not uncommon for me to have 7.62x39 rounds bounce off dividers and land on my hat.

 

[damien]

Got the exact same thing once. It healed 100%.

 

[Joe Gunns]

Stay safe ... use a revolver.

 

[Ske1etor]

You sure are a scruffy lookin' fella!

(Figured I would add that since everyone else basically covered the rest of the bases.)

 

[doc2rn]

Got burned from the brass falling from a support gunship over our position. Rolled right off the boonie cap and got lodged between flak jacket and skin on the back of my neck. I feel ya.

 

[neapoi]

Alright... I'll drag out my hot casing story...

My brother was shooting his new Bushmaster, and I was about 15 feet behind him turned the opposite direction, bending over getting something or another.

Anyways, you see where this going... the hot case flew back from the AR, and straight into the ol' plumbers crack. Man, that was a strange kind of pain! I still have a scar infact! However, I'm going to take the high road and not post the picture here!

Oh, and I'm glad to hear you made it through your burned face with only a little pain!

 

[Randy in Arizona]

I found out the hard way not to fire a friend's M60 LMG left handed.
Nice little group of circles branded in my right forearm by the hot case mouths.

 

[Hardware]

I've got a behind the glasses story, definitely felt like the hottest piece of brass I've ever been in contact with. My 45 will land 'em on your head and a lever .357 does the same thing. Don't wear henley shirts to the range or you're going to smell burning chest hair. However, the first time I shot my garand the brass bounced off the side of the booth and hole-in-oned right behind my glasses. I calmly put down the rifle and then did the hot brass dance. I got a nice burn very similar to the one in the picture, but also extending to the bridge of my nose.

 

[jrfoxx]

been burned twice the same way myself. once on the cheek below the eye, once on my closed eyelid (a stroke of luck, I must have been blinking right as the shell caught there) THAT one freaking hurt, and hurt for days during every blink.Not pleasant.yet another reason I shoot outdors, and at a place with nothing for brass to hit and bounce off except the ground.

And I carry a very large, well equipped, home made, first aid duffle bag when I go.