Share Your "Hot Brass" Stories

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This happened to me

during my CCW class. I was shooting my Springfield 1911 at an indoor range, with narrow stalls divided by plywood. A casing bounced off of the divider and lodged between my glasses and my head. Left a nice scar for about a year.
 
Got ''stung'' just 2 weeks ago .. a .22lr ejected and landed on the bench .. I all but instantly put my arm on it .... it left its mark!:p

Funniest tho was back in 80's - a real bear of a man Peter .. was on the line shooting classic pistol with several of us .... we were at the 7 yd line and he was shooting his lil .25. He suddenly dropped (well, placed, pointing safe) his gun and started hoppin around like a gazelle ... a case had gone down his back ... and of course he thought it was a hornet. Much merriment, at his expense!:D
 
I'm shootin a Colt .45 full sized at the range.

Over the bench they had little spot lights.

I got my Oakley's on, slightly tilted up to get the ear pieces over my ear muffs.

After a half dozen mags a piece of brass flys up, hits the little spot light and forcefully lodges inself across my eyelid under the glasses. Blistered my eyelid before I could get it out.

Yeooooooochcccch!:fire:
 
7.62FMJ, I'll do you one better! Two years ago on a FTX, we were assaulting a bunker. We actually captured the Opfor instead of killing him. A cadet who shall remain nameless decided to grab the Opfor's SAW by the barrel to disarm him. :eek: I bet he never makes that mistake again!
 
I've caught a few over the years -- more than a few times down the shirt, too. Yes, I know to wear a high collar, but I guess I'm just lucky as the brass seems to like me quite a bit.

Lost cool points this weekend working as an RO -- at one point I found myself ducking rather than just nonchalantly brushing it aside or ignoring it. :eek:

Stevie-Ray ~ the sig's for you.

pax

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. -- Virginia Woolf
 
Ever got caught under a little bird on a gun run, while wearing a flak-vest?
Talk about a one legged man in a kung-fu contest!!!:D

The funniest thing to watch is 4 S. Koreans running around with a tarp trying to catch the brass as it falls.
 
It has only happened to me once, and it was my very first time shooting. I was 12 yrs old shooting a .45 1911 and one brass went down the BACK of my shirt. My shirt was tucked and I had to lay the gun down then pull my shirt out of my pants to untuck it. Wow, what a first time shooting experience.

And oddly enough the 1911 was and still is what intrigues me most. :)
 
My favorite "hot-brass" memory came from a borrowed Smith 41 and the local .22 steel shoot.

The shoot involves 6 runs at a 12 target bank. I've just mowed over my fifth or so target when a piece of brass lands right between my trigger finger and the grip frame. I'm thinking to myself, "Ignore it, Ignore it", cuz it'll slow me down to get rid of. Got one more shot off before it just became too much. Decent excuse for my time, though.

My usual technique for brass is to just straighten out my trigger finger, keep everything down range, and wiggle until the offending piece of brass hits the ground. Made the mistake one time of shooting with a tucked in shirt when a 9mm case went down the back of my collar and firmly rested itself against my skin at the belt line. Last time I wore a tucked in shirt to the range.:eek:
 
Last week was out with a few friends, think we had 19 pistols between us, had spread a 20x20' tarp out to catch the brass, most all of the cases were well on the tarp, I loaded up a Russian Tokarev 33 with some surplus ammo for a buddy, with his first shot a steel case cleared the tarp by 15' and hit me in the neck, fell down and hung, I have a quarter sized scar. Have had 30.06 burn holes in the tarp.

rk
 
Similar story to undertoad. Watched someone trying to change the barrel of a GPMG without putting on the protective glove first. They say it's the kind of mistake you only make once. Ouch !

Hot brass between glasses an eyelid. That's quite an achievement !
 
Shooting the AR one day at my inlaws place. Had some brass go down my shirt but since i had an undershirt on, I didn't really notice although I fished out as many as I could. I thought I had all of it.

Went to dinner a while later and the casing started falling out of my shirts on to the tile floor of the resturant.

Got some strange looks.
 
I've also had a piece of brass lodge between head and glasses. Mine was during an IDPA stage. I left it there while I fired the last two rounds - couldn't let it spoil my time! Got a second-degree burn out of the deal.
 
Stop, drop and roll....oh wait, that's when you're on fire. I've had it happen during a firearms training class. Brass from classmate went down the back of my shirt. Took finger off the trigger, kept gun pointed down range and did something that probably resembled a cross between the chicken dance and the macarena until it stopped burning me. Then, finished shooting, reholstered and pull my shirt out to let the offending piece of brass fall free. Not something I want to experience again.
 
A P7 ejects brass at high speed to the right. I always tried to remember to have the RO stand to my left in IPSC matches. I forgot one day and hit the RO in the head , but he should have known better since he had a P7 too!!
 
Took my daughter (12 yrs old) to an indoor range in Branson, MO. We had a coupon for rent 2 MP-5's for the price of one. We took turns shooting and while she was on the line, a piece of brass bounced off of the divider and lodged between her safety glasses and temple/eye brow. She started screaming "Dad! Dad! Dad!" I was standing directly behind her and had seen what happened. I reached up and flipped it out. I was so proud of her. There were a lot of tears but she kept both hands on the MP-5, finger off the trigger, and pointed down range the entire time!
 
My buddy and I were at the range shooting his new Mini 30. I was standing just to the right of him while he was working his way through a 20 round mag. Just as I was blinking a spent case flew into my left eye!!! It bruised and burnt my eyelid, then fell down my collar to burn me some more.

Needless to say I have remembered my safety glasses ever since!!


Edited: WOO HOOO 500 posts!!!
 
<brag on> The first time he shot our new Ruger 22/45, my 16 year old son had a shell from the 3rd round of the 10 round clip pop back and land at the base of his neck on his collar bone. I watched as he quickly, but calmly, clicked on the safety, laid the gun down, and then brushed the shell away. I was impressed with his presence of mind. <brag off>
 
Hot brass?

Almost everyday I went to the Rifle Range when I was in the Marines. Had to qualify once a year, and you're on the range usually 5 days.
The worst I ever got, however, was during some patrol training, we setup an ambush and I parked my arse too close to the SAW gunner. When we sprang our little ambush, I got about a dozen spent blanks down the back of my shirt...
:banghead:
 
Almost everyday I went to the Rifle Range when I was in the Marines.
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Amen to that! M16A1 on full auto uses the collar of a lefthanded shooter's utilities as a convenient brass catcher...I got some magnificent blisters, and a lifelong appreciation of shooting righthanded! :what:
 
One particular, although harmless incident comes to mind. I had just bought a Browning 22 takedown with the bottom ejection. (I'm a southpaw, so it seemed a natural.) I hunkered down on the bench and popped off a few, and one goes down the sleeve of my strong hand. Dang! That hurt and left a mark. Well, that sure was a fluke. It took two matching burns for me to decide I needed to tape my sleeve closed.

Grampa
 
have to set the scene some.....

back just before i moved away from NC. A friend adn I are the only two on the range on a rather blistering august day.
this particular range has all kinds of "improvised seating arangements" (the seat out of school buses, both sides of a double sided resturant booth, and all kinds of wood constructs) along with differing tables under the "overheads".
I've decided that i want to take a break and just sit back adn relax for a bit, so i get comfy sitting on one of the benches, feet propped up on a table infront of me, i'm wearing slightly baggy shorts and a t-shirt....

my buddy is trying out his new AK-clone, with what i beleive to have been wolf Ammo (was lacquered steel case)....
i start to doze off and then a spot at the juncture of the top of my left leg and the corresponding buttcheek starts screaming "Hey! stupid there's someting HOT down here and it HURTS!!!! "

yes i managed to get a piece of brass UP my pantleg :eek:

i'm told the dance i performed would have inspired a monsoon if performed elsewhere.....
 
ah, the next stall neighbor

well, off the top of my head...

I took a couple friends shooting and had them try a 9-mm AR/carbine. i was in the next stall (to the right, silly me) with my pistol after showing them the how's.

Then I kept feeling something bouncing off my head. The third time that something bounced, I looked down to see the brass landing. They weren't mine... They were flying over the stall divider and bouncing off the top of my head...

On a related note, I once lost a key. Tore up the entire office looking for it. Gave up after a cuople days. then found it in three weeks when the dry cleaning came back. It landed in the cuff of my pants. I walked it home looking for it.


On a further related note, a diamond dealer related this story: A young couple was shopping for an engagement ring and was shown various rocks. One went -fling- off the counter. Fell out of the diamond holder. So the SOP was to freeze everyone and sweep the floor. Nope, nothing. They finally found the rock lodged in the insignia of the guy's tennis shoes, dead center.
 
I've had the brass wedged in between the temple and glasses thing. It hurt.

I was shooting full-auto with an AR and managed to land 4 pieces of brass in the rear of my collar. It didn't hurt at the time, but it hurt for the following 2 days.

The .45 on the temple was worse than the .223 cases down the back.
 
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