I bought my first auto handgun, a 1911, back when I was young. It was dark before I got home with it, and I was also somewhat under the alcofluence of incohol. I was trying to hit a possum with it. Well, not being able to hold it steady, I placed my left hand over the right hand and the slide just about took my thumb off to the ER I went.
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gabeodog
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Countless numbers of jaketed richochets to the cheek from indoor and outdoor ranges. None permanent.
UnknownSailor
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Malfunction drills. Thunder Ranch. Front sight vs left middle finger. Winner: Front sight.
I get hammer bite on stock 1911A1s, too, but havn't shot one of those in a long while.
I get hammer bite on stock 1911A1s, too, but havn't shot one of those in a long while.
Horsesense
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Was shooting clay pigeons, when a guy brought along one of those useless Maverick 88 with a pistol grip.
Being the best shooter at the wing-ding, it wasn't long before I was handed the 12ga and (to the amazement of all the hotshot military LEO onlookers) I busted the first pigeon. At that moment the little voice in my head said "just put it down, and enjoy the admiration of your fans" instead I said "do it again" I shot and missed, not wanting to let my fans down, I tried to pick it up but instinctively tried to shoulder the pistol grip shot gun. Ended up braking off a tooth!
Being the best shooter at the wing-ding, it wasn't long before I was handed the 12ga and (to the amazement of all the hotshot military LEO onlookers) I busted the first pigeon. At that moment the little voice in my head said "just put it down, and enjoy the admiration of your fans" instead I said "do it again" I shot and missed, not wanting to let my fans down, I tried to pick it up but instinctively tried to shoulder the pistol grip shot gun. Ended up braking off a tooth!
Ala Dan
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Hammer bite from a German Walther PPK/S.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
GigaBuist
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Only got one good one, and I've still got the scar.
8 years old, went out with the grandfather hunting. I was "tag along" with a front-stuffer pistol.
Well, I got glasses on, and after muddling around in the woods my body is getting hot. When we're done and we've walked back to his house to unload heat is rising out of my coat pretty good. When I sit still to take a shot at the coffee can we had perched up my glasses fog up. So I pull the pistol in closer. I'm not the smartest kid in the world. I pull it even closer still, trying to get a good sight picture. Grandpa is looking at the can, not at me. I pull the trigger, muzzle flips up and into my nose.
Blood everywhere, and I still got a scar 15 years later.
8 years old, went out with the grandfather hunting. I was "tag along" with a front-stuffer pistol.
Well, I got glasses on, and after muddling around in the woods my body is getting hot. When we're done and we've walked back to his house to unload heat is rising out of my coat pretty good. When I sit still to take a shot at the coffee can we had perched up my glasses fog up. So I pull the pistol in closer. I'm not the smartest kid in the world. I pull it even closer still, trying to get a good sight picture. Grandpa is looking at the can, not at me. I pull the trigger, muzzle flips up and into my nose.
Blood everywhere, and I still got a scar 15 years later.
gbran
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Muzzle brake blew up.......
I bought an aftermarket muzzle brake for a Nagant and went to the range to see if it would help dampen the 7.62x54 recoil. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn door for some reason. It didn't dawn on me that the muzzle brake wasn't properly aligned. The bullet was clipping one side of the brake bore until it litterly blew it apart. A fragment blew back and lacerated my eyebrow and forehead.
I bought an aftermarket muzzle brake for a Nagant and went to the range to see if it would help dampen the 7.62x54 recoil. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn door for some reason. It didn't dawn on me that the muzzle brake wasn't properly aligned. The bullet was clipping one side of the brake bore until it litterly blew it apart. A fragment blew back and lacerated my eyebrow and forehead.
CAPTAIN MIKE
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....OUCH, That's Gotta HURT...
...My experiences and that of El Tejon are EXACTLY the same.
Whew! I feel better now. Thought I was the only one !!!
...My experiences and that of El Tejon are EXACTLY the same.
Whew! I feel better now. Thought I was the only one !!!
Ryder
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Only one I ever bled from was lowering the hammer on some semi-auto in a gun shop once. Hammer spring was the stiffest I've ever seen. It got a good bite on the pad of my left thumb. A few minutes later I discovered 2 quarter inch long incisions when I looked to see why in the heck my fingers were sticking together. That's some pretty thick skin!
I watched a guy shoot a 3 inch load of OO from a sawed off 12 ga once. He held the gun up one handed at a steep angle and touched 'er off. Might have been drunk, or done on a bet, maybe both? Certainly crazy. Ribs broke from his own elbow. It looked kool.
I watched a guy shoot a 3 inch load of OO from a sawed off 12 ga once. He held the gun up one handed at a steep angle and touched 'er off. Might have been drunk, or done on a bet, maybe both? Certainly crazy. Ribs broke from his own elbow. It looked kool.
Two grooves in the web of my hand the first time I fired an HSc. And the second time. --- No third time.
Bruises on the butt when I fired both triggers of a SxS at twelve and fell over backward. I was so proud that I didn’t drop the shotgun and kept it pointing downrange.
Quite a few brass and barrel burns.
While reloading a cheap single action .22 the sear broke and the gun fired. The cylinder was lined up enough to fire, but there was a lot of gas, powder and shavings coming out of the cylinder gap that my left hand was wrapped around.
All of these except a few brass burns happened when I was a kid. Maybe I am getting smarter.
Bruises on the butt when I fired both triggers of a SxS at twelve and fell over backward. I was so proud that I didn’t drop the shotgun and kept it pointing downrange.
Quite a few brass and barrel burns.
While reloading a cheap single action .22 the sear broke and the gun fired. The cylinder was lined up enough to fire, but there was a lot of gas, powder and shavings coming out of the cylinder gap that my left hand was wrapped around.
All of these except a few brass burns happened when I was a kid. Maybe I am getting smarter.
glocksman
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A few blood blisters and scrapes from slides, but the big one is my permanent tinnitus (ringing of the ears) from an AD in the house with a .357 magnum.
Instead of trying to catch the falling gun, I should have just let it hit the floor. :banghead:
Instead of trying to catch the falling gun, I should have just let it hit the floor. :banghead:
AVESguy
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Two of consequence (other than blisters, scrapes, ejected shell burns)
Scope eye from first time ever shooting 30/06 (03A3) with scope.
Fat lip, crushed glasses on the first day of three day shotgun class.
Cause- holding Mossberg 590 with Knoxx Comp Stock with thumb of firing hand crossed over the top of the stock. The Knoxx collapses slightly on firing impact and the thumb smacked me right in the face. I had a fat lip for two days. Only did it once!!!
Scope eye from first time ever shooting 30/06 (03A3) with scope.
Fat lip, crushed glasses on the first day of three day shotgun class.
Cause- holding Mossberg 590 with Knoxx Comp Stock with thumb of firing hand crossed over the top of the stock. The Knoxx collapses slightly on firing impact and the thumb smacked me right in the face. I had a fat lip for two days. Only did it once!!!
hansolo
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Hey, Vern! Hold my beer.....
I'm not real experienced with shotguns; while visiting my brother-in-law at his Texas ranch, I was admiring his 870. We saw a rattler outside the house. "Take the 12 gauge," he said. I knew it was going to "kick" and held it really tight against my shoulder. KABOOM! Unfortunately, I flinched as the snake slithered away: the butt had slammed into my right bicep and the bruise was truly amazing.
I'm not real experienced with shotguns; while visiting my brother-in-law at his Texas ranch, I was admiring his 870. We saw a rattler outside the house. "Take the 12 gauge," he said. I knew it was going to "kick" and held it really tight against my shoulder. KABOOM! Unfortunately, I flinched as the snake slithered away: the butt had slammed into my right bicep and the bruise was truly amazing.
When me and my shooting buddy go to the range we always open up with our ARs. He has a trigger finger faster than some autos. He has been asked to leave ranges that don't allow select-fire rifles until he shows that he doesn't own one.
Well you would think that I would've learned by now that I shouldn't stand to his right. He fired fast enough to get three hot shells amazingly down the back of my shirt before I could move. I did the not-so happy dance for a second
and then actually started to enjoy the warmth since it was a pretty cold day out there.
Well you would think that I would've learned by now that I shouldn't stand to his right. He fired fast enough to get three hot shells amazingly down the back of my shirt before I could move. I did the not-so happy dance for a second
and then actually started to enjoy the warmth since it was a pretty cold day out there.Kentucky Rifle
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I had a friend about 30 years ago who smoked weed. He and two other smokers were out in the woods, stoned and shooting the Ruger .22 auto that looks like a Luger. (Sorry, I just don't remember the names of pistols in which I'm not interested.) Anyway, they were walking single-file down a path and my friend says, "Gimme the gun". The Ruger went from the first guy in line to the second guy and as the second guy handed it to my friend-he pulled the trigger. My friend had to sit down. The bullet had gone into the "meaty part" of his leg (right below his "hoo-ha") but hadn't struck bone. He told me that it felt "hot, very hot". I decided that he was too stupid to be my friend anymore and I haven't seen him since.
Will
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i was shooting my .44 mag 629 at some swinging steel plates. i was at about 15 yards. i was using some hard cast 1000 fps reloads. i had some bullet fragments fly back at me and hit me in the thigh. i heard the impact with my hearing protection on! i thought i was injured badly, 'cause it hurt like the dickens. hobbled back to my shop and dropped my jeans to inspect the damage. i had two small lead fragments. they totaled about five grains in weight. they were deep, completely imbeded under the skin. i had to dig them out and that was very unpleasant. the fragments were so small, i felt like a sissy. i really did hurt like hell.
i took down the steel plates and haven't used them since.
i was shooting my .44 mag 629 at some swinging steel plates. i was at about 15 yards. i was using some hard cast 1000 fps reloads. i had some bullet fragments fly back at me and hit me in the thigh. i heard the impact with my hearing protection on! i thought i was injured badly, 'cause it hurt like the dickens. hobbled back to my shop and dropped my jeans to inspect the damage. i had two small lead fragments. they totaled about five grains in weight. they were deep, completely imbeded under the skin. i had to dig them out and that was very unpleasant. the fragments were so small, i felt like a sissy. i really did hurt like hell.
i took down the steel plates and haven't used them since.
BHPshooter
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I've got a couple...
I had the scope of a .270 hit me in the eyebrow while deer hunting. That only happened once.
The day I got my BHP, we were driving home and I field stripped the pistol just for the kick of it. My Dad said something and distracted me while I was trying to put it back together. The pad of my thumb got caught in between the slide and the "dust cover" and took a large chunk out of my finger. Didn't feel too good.
My FEG Hi Power (with the ring hammer) has bitten me a couple times. It causes a strange tingling sensation when it pinches you.
I was out in the boonies shooting with my buddy. He brought his AK47, and we were taking turns bump-firing it. The first offense was that I wasn't paying too much attention when he handed me the gun, and that sucker gets HOT. The second offense was when I was bump firing it for about the 3rd mag's worth... I was using my middle finger, and the bolt handle came back and smacked me on the index finger, breaking the fingernail. It was numb for days, and when the numbness left, it hurt like hades. So, no Garand Thumb, but I have had Kalashnikov Finger.
Wes
I had the scope of a .270 hit me in the eyebrow while deer hunting. That only happened once.
The day I got my BHP, we were driving home and I field stripped the pistol just for the kick of it. My Dad said something and distracted me while I was trying to put it back together. The pad of my thumb got caught in between the slide and the "dust cover" and took a large chunk out of my finger. Didn't feel too good.
My FEG Hi Power (with the ring hammer) has bitten me a couple times. It causes a strange tingling sensation when it pinches you.
I was out in the boonies shooting with my buddy. He brought his AK47, and we were taking turns bump-firing it. The first offense was that I wasn't paying too much attention when he handed me the gun, and that sucker gets HOT. The second offense was when I was bump firing it for about the 3rd mag's worth... I was using my middle finger, and the bolt handle came back and smacked me on the index finger, breaking the fingernail. It was numb for days, and when the numbness left, it hurt like hades. So, no Garand Thumb, but I have had Kalashnikov Finger.
Wes
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the usual ones...
1. M1 thumb when in high school;
2. sliced my RH web with the stock 1911;
3. the recoil/scope slice once (off a .223, no less!)
4. the HBD (Hot Brass Dance) more than a few times; and
5. Blowing up my Glock 20--arguably the first one in the U.S. to have done so. (This was about the time magazine reports of Polygon (?) rifling and lead bullets maybe being a problem in Glocks were just starting to surface--1991?) But I'd been shooting 1000s of reloads in my SA 1911 10mm (Peters Stahl slide, polygon barrel for over two years, with no issues....)
After 200 rounds of FMJs to burnish the barrel a bit, I shifted to my 10mm reloads (180 gr. lead, about 5.0 gr. of 231 as I recall). At about round 274, at a local indoor range, in a more-or less standard rapid fire drill, I suddenly felt a stinging in my right hand--and realized there was no slide on the receiver.
About the time I'm digesting this, the RO shut down the range--he'd heard a loud, loud KLANK as the slide hit the radiator sheetmetal cover about six feet behind me (but not the window directly above it).
The chamber was split at the 4:00 position, about 1&3/4" long. The slide was massively twisted and deformed with the barrel locked in it, but the receiver looked OK. Meanwhile, I was looking over the knuckle and first joint of my RH forefinger. It felt badly sprained, and a blood blister was forming. The shooter two stations over was an MD, and he concurred that it appeared not broken--and it wasn't.
The RO, MD, & I spent some time looking over the pieces and realized how much that frame had to flex to let the slide off the rails--and how the flexing must have tilted the slide and released the slide rear first, thus propelling the slide past my forehead....given the size of the dent in the radiator cover, that was a sobering thought.
I called Glock and told them of this--they did NOT want an accident report. Winchester did want to see the slide and barrel--which they dismantled and returned with the standard kind of CYA letter for their purposes.
It was not an squid load and then a second shot (no bulging at all), and I 'know' that was it not a double-charged case, FWIW.
So I kissed off the experience and stayed with the SA Omega for 10mm. As some time passed, I found I simply could not shoot Glocks anymore, so I sold the 17L and the 19s I also owned.
Funny, I now prefer .45ACP for my handgun reloading....
1. M1 thumb when in high school;
2. sliced my RH web with the stock 1911;
3. the recoil/scope slice once (off a .223, no less!)
4. the HBD (Hot Brass Dance) more than a few times; and
5. Blowing up my Glock 20--arguably the first one in the U.S. to have done so. (This was about the time magazine reports of Polygon (?) rifling and lead bullets maybe being a problem in Glocks were just starting to surface--1991?) But I'd been shooting 1000s of reloads in my SA 1911 10mm (Peters Stahl slide, polygon barrel for over two years, with no issues....)
After 200 rounds of FMJs to burnish the barrel a bit, I shifted to my 10mm reloads (180 gr. lead, about 5.0 gr. of 231 as I recall). At about round 274, at a local indoor range, in a more-or less standard rapid fire drill, I suddenly felt a stinging in my right hand--and realized there was no slide on the receiver.
About the time I'm digesting this, the RO shut down the range--he'd heard a loud, loud KLANK as the slide hit the radiator sheetmetal cover about six feet behind me (but not the window directly above it).
The chamber was split at the 4:00 position, about 1&3/4" long. The slide was massively twisted and deformed with the barrel locked in it, but the receiver looked OK. Meanwhile, I was looking over the knuckle and first joint of my RH forefinger. It felt badly sprained, and a blood blister was forming. The shooter two stations over was an MD, and he concurred that it appeared not broken--and it wasn't.
The RO, MD, & I spent some time looking over the pieces and realized how much that frame had to flex to let the slide off the rails--and how the flexing must have tilted the slide and released the slide rear first, thus propelling the slide past my forehead....given the size of the dent in the radiator cover, that was a sobering thought.
I called Glock and told them of this--they did NOT want an accident report. Winchester did want to see the slide and barrel--which they dismantled and returned with the standard kind of CYA letter for their purposes.
It was not an squid load and then a second shot (no bulging at all), and I 'know' that was it not a double-charged case, FWIW.
So I kissed off the experience and stayed with the SA Omega for 10mm. As some time passed, I found I simply could not shoot Glocks anymore, so I sold the 17L and the 19s I also owned.
Funny, I now prefer .45ACP for my handgun reloading....
mtnbkr
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Atticus,
Were you the guy who shot his finger off at a gunshow? He (you?) posted about it over at sixgunner.com a couple years ago...
I think yours takes the cake.
Chris
Were you the guy who shot his finger off at a gunshow? He (you?) posted about it over at sixgunner.com a couple years ago...
I think yours takes the cake.
Chris
Adjustable sights on handguns are always good for cutting the hell out of my thumbs at any opportunity.
I have also been burned on hot brass a few times and I left some skin on the hot barrel of an SAR-1.
And for some reason the triggerguard of a Mosin-Nagant likes to get a taste of my middle finger every once in awhile.
I have also been burned on hot brass a few times and I left some skin on the hot barrel of an SAR-1.
And for some reason the triggerguard of a Mosin-Nagant likes to get a taste of my middle finger every once in awhile.
ChickenHawk
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LOL!! That comment is exactly why I ended up buying a Bersa Thunder .380 instead of the Walther PPK!
Price aside, I just think the Walther is a sexy gun. I love my Bersa though.
More On-topic, you gotta be careful of the Bersa Thunder .380 decocker! It has a sharp edge, and I sliced my thumb open the first time I ever worked the slide on a Bersa.
Bled all over some poor lady's gun at a gun show. That was embarrassing!
Cheers,
ChickenHawk
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