Minor Range Accident

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My wife and I were at the local indoor range today, I was shooting my Sig and she was using her Kahr K9. She has really started to improve her skills and was getting very good groupings.

The Kahr ejects casings all over the place, including straight up. Several bounced off the top of her head. One went down between her glasses and her eye and actully hit her eyeball. It left a small blister-like mark on her iris.

We went to the emergency room just to be sure there was no major damage. I was a little apprehensive about getting a lecture from the doctor about the use of firearms. He asked what happened, she told him. He then asked what type of gun. What followed then was an interesting discussion about guns and autoloaders vs revolvers. Turns out he was not originally in favor of guns, but due to the area he lives in, he started shooting and then got his wife involved too. Not what I expected. By the way, his firearm of choice is a Ruger .357 magnum.

Nice to know that not all doctors are antis.
 
Of course not all doctors are antis, they actually have some of the biggest collections. The local SASS club that i am a member of includes in its ranks a very well respected cardiologist, and we have a neurosurgeon that shoots with our IDPA league. Hope the eye heals well.


p.s. that's why I wear a hat when I shoot
 
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In the future, this could be avoided by wearing a baseball cap with a brim forward to keep cases out.
 
Not always. I wear a ball cap almost constantly, and I've still had brass bounce up and go between my glasses and face. The hat definitely does reduce the chance of it happening, but I haven't found a soultion that solves it 100% yet, besides not shooting at all - and that's simply not an option, lol. :)

But yeah - if she doesn't already wear some type of hat while shooting, wearing one from now on wouldn't be a bad idea. Glad she wasn't hurt worse, by the way. I can't imagine getting a burn on my actual eyeball. Ouch.
 
If she doesn't like a hat...(bad ju-ju hat hair :D ) look for somr safty glasses with the biult in sheild over the eye brow. Something to block cases from getting behind her glasses.

Hope it heals well for her!

Mark.
 
Another person on this forum had a similar accident last week. I guess the moral of the story is to wear safety glasses where the top comes flush to your brow. I'm glad that I have a pair like that.
 
My doctors are pro-firearms. Fortunate for them too. They get a ton of money from my insurance (surgeries). If they were antis', they'd lose me to a pro-firearms doctor.

Glad your wife is well, and I'll second the PF doctors.
 
Ouchies. I took a 308 shell down the back of my shirt, and I can only imagine how that would have felt on the eye. Glad to hear your Doc is a brother in arms.
 
The Kahr ejects casings all over the place, including straight up. Several bounced off the top of her head. One went down between her glasses and her eye and actully hit her eyeball. It left a small blister-like mark on her iris.
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That's a sign this gun needs to be traded in. Either that or wear different eye protection. No reason to injure an eye
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I had that happen once, and that was enough. I wear a baseball cap and Oakley M frames with a clear Heater lens. Funny thing is, that's what I wear at work too. I am in the medical field and don't want blood or other bodily fluids getting in my eyes.
 
I hope that she will be ok in the long run. Ouch!

I usually wear safety glasses over my regular eyeglasses when I shoot. I do have eyeglasses that don't need safety glasses over them too.

For a few years in my 30's, I used to wear contact lenses with goggles over them while sailing, swimming and diving. I don't know if that would help her or not. I don't know if baseball hats or boonie hats would help for sure. Sorry! I do not always wear either of those style of hats every time that I shoot. I like the wind in my short hair. I don't know if that is being UNSAFE or not.

Most of the doctors that I knew as a child and as an adult were pro gun and had moderate to large collections.

I used to wear safety glasses/goggles OVER my eyeglasses when I used hand, gas and electric tools for trimming shrubs, bushes, hardwood and evergreen trees. I used them when I used a 'chipper' too. Sometimes when I used a push mower and my lawn tractor too. It depended on what my project was and where I was using the tool. I did NOT use chain saws, tried them once, that was enough and not in my 'wifely job description'! You can't replace your EYES. Stay safe!

Catherine
 
Kahr pistols are supposedly defense handguns . . . if they injure you on the range like that, what if it happens when you really, really, NEED the gun, and don't have time to put on wrap-around safety goggles? :eek:

Of course, I HAD a Kahr pistol myself - a P9, to be exact -and what an utter, failure-prone piece of trash THAT was. :barf:
 
The army issued me some great eye-shields that wear over regular glasses and also have a tinted lens to switch out. I've been using them a lot lately because I need some prescription sunglasses and haven't gotten around to getting them yet.

I grew up with a doctor whose last name was Callahan. For his birtday, his colleagues pitched in and got him a framed commemorative Model 29. :)
 
Just need to grow some larger brow ridges, that way the glasses will be flush with her face.

I know its a look that went out of style for women 100,000 years ago, but hey they really help protect the eyes. :eek:<---- notice no brow ridges, see how anything could poke the eyes?


Hope she heals up fast. :)
 
Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions about the baseball cap. Everything apprears to be ok and she wants to finish up shooting tomorrow.

I guess i am going to the range again.
 
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I once saw a buxom chick wearing a tank top catch hot .22 brass in the cleavage. She danced. I ducked. We all lived.
 
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