Very Scary experience at the range today!

[Double Naught Spy]

No doubt the danger posed by fence posts is often overlooked. Most people feel they are slow and that they can easily out draw them. As you noted, that doesn't mean the post is defenseless.

Nobody has ever figured out where the head shot is supposed to be placed on a fence post mozambique.

 

[EghtySx]

I was plinking with a coupla guys in HS, one had a 12gague shotgun. I told him not to shoot that old tire 25 or so feet away from us. He did anyway. I caught a pellet in the middle of my chest. Didn't do any damage of course but that tiny piece of lead going fairly fast sure felt bigger than it was, almost like getting punched with a fist. Didn't really hurt, I was just surprised that it felt so big, not really heavy, just bigger than it actually was.

 

[W Turner]

Two stories regarding bounceback...

1-I had just bought a new Remingotn 870 and decided to wring it out by shooting birdhot at strategically placed bowling pins. About halfway thru the first run I realized that I had an unusual stinging sensation form the knees down. Some of the birdshot was bouncing off the plastic skin of the pins and hitting me in the shins.

2- I was working with a new shooter by having him shoot at an 8" plate. We were about 20 yards away from the plate and shooting WWB 9mm out of an XD. He pulled the trigger on a shot and I immediately felt stinging in my upper thigh and just above my ankle. The bullet had fragmented on a raised ridge on the plate cause by some a#$hole shooting rifle rounds at a pistol gong. Both places bruised up and wept blood for a day or so. Good thing about this was that this guy had been very reluctant to wear eye protection. I didn't have any trouble getting him to wear it after that for some reason.


W

 

[entropy]

(Along with my old rifle hospitalising my step father and best friend with severe scope-eye.)

[Boomstick, at ramge] Come on ya pansy, Dad just didn't hold it right...[/Boomstick, at range]

 

[cbsbyte]

I have been hit in the face many times by hot brass ejecting from my pistol. The indoor pistol range I shoot at has barrier walls between the different shooting postions. For some reason brass seems to deflects off this wall at a angle that redirects it towards my head. I have been burned numerous times from hot brass getting stuck between my skin and the top of saftey glasses.

 

[Z_Infidel]

I frequent two indoor ranges in my area, and until this one time last year I had never been hit by "bounceback". But this one day I and one other shooter were the only ones in the range, and he was shooting some type of large caliber revolver a few lanes away from me. I don't have a problem with that, but it did make me wish I'd doubled up on my hearing protection that day. Anyway, I could feel the concussive effect from his gun firing with each shot and after a few rounds I felt something hit me in the face immediately following the BOOM of his shot. It didn't hurt or really alarm me, but it did surprise me a little. I felt the same thing again a few moments later and it dawned on me what it was. I've never experienced it again since then.

 

[brad597]

I set up a 2x6 about 3 foot long, out at 25 yards, and then shot it with a vaquero, 45lc. It came directly back and hit the guy standing right beside me in the leg. It did not even tear his pants, or leave a mark! I weighed the bullet after, and it still weighed 250 grains! All it did to the untreated piece of pine was put a 1/4 inch dent in it(weirdhuh?)

 

[jdseven1]

WE had one police officer hit in the arm by a round that hit the target frame lucky it was only a nick. How I know why police departments are required to wear a vest when training.

 

[rock jock]

I saw a AR round bounce back from a metal swinger and hit the shooter in his middle finger. Copius amounts of blood , but not life-threatening.

 

[Boom-stick]

[Boomstick, at ramge] Come on ya pansy, Dad just didn't hold it right...[/Boomstick, at range]

Yep, not holding it right was the key, but Dad still got a cracked eye socket but my friend, now I think about it, actually got his finger caught in the action and it ripped his finger nail out, but me being the good friend I am couldn't actually stand up to help him as I was laughing so hard whilst he was running aroung the yard screaming

To this day I still can't figure out how he done it?
(it was 12 years ago)

 

[armoredman]

When working as a range officer at a local gunshop/range, I have been hit more than once by the cheap, antiquidated backstop at J-Mart. But, the worst was a bowling pin incident...
A gent had loaded his 38s as light as possible for faster recovery, and the pins were barely tipping over. About the 4th or so, I felt the fist of Thor smash into me - one had bounced back straight into the family jewels, and dropped me like a rock. People behind freaked, until I howled I'd been shot in the twins....with no blood showing, they ALL busted up laughing....
OK, later, yeah, it WAS funny as all get out, and the guy that did it apologized for weeks afterward, but at the time, ouch...ouch...ouch.
Still have the slug somewhere, too.

 

[Bart Noir]

My kevlar cod-pieces will be on the market soon. Just need to sort out how to figure out a "persons" size. Somehow, I think verybody will order the jumbo size. Yes, the ladies model is in development. It has a slightly different shape, with a thong retaining system.

Bart Noir
I'm gonna make millions of bucks.

 

[BRASSM]

I was out with some friends in Texas ages ago. After shooting, and washing the lead off we went out for dinner. I was carrying my money clip in my vest pocket. When I pulled it out a flattened jacket was on top of it. Only one of us was using a .45 ACP. I was wearing a leather vest and didn't feel a thing. This past summer I got zinged be a richocet off of a steel plate. Left a welt that's all. I've had hot brass ding me while firing and being near auto weapons. Several years ago at an indoor range where an exceptionally well-built woman was using a .45 auto on the range. A hot case hit the ceiling and bounced into her upper garment. She had the presence of mind to lay down the firearm before dancing.

 

[White Horseradish]

I took a pellet of 00 buck in the crotch once. I do not recommend it.

Some guys were firing a shotgun at an indoor range and I think they hit the wall. I was 5 lanes over and it got me. Not that it hurt, but an unexpected tap on that part of your anatomy after hearing a gunshot does make you jump.

 

[cadfael]

The worst to me personally was when I was SOing a shooter and one of his .45 bullets came back off the backstop and hit me precisely COM, knocking the wind out of me and leaving a bruise on my sternum.

I was at another IDPA match when a fragment came off a popper and nicked one of the bystanders' neck. Nothing to serious, but it did bleed quite a bit.

Adam

 

[Zaire]

Back in 96 I was shooting am old dead tree with S&B 00 buck and had one come back and hit me in the stomach. Considering I was only about 15 feet away, and wearing only a wife beater, it left a good welt. My shooting buddy laughed for about 5 minutes after he realized I was okay.

 

[carolinaman]

Hi there all,

Several years ago I was shooting at the indoor range and the guy next to me in the next stall was shooting a 1911 with lead reloads.

I remember getting hit in the chest and feeling that stinging and burning sensation and noticed a spent bullet clinging to the front of my shirt. Sure enough, one of his rounds had bounced back and hit me.

One night, I was competing in the range shooting bowling pins. I asked the Range Master why he always stood directly behind me and he replied, "look down at the floor..." The floor was littered with shredding copper jackets and pieces of lead that had bounced back off of the backstop and not landed in the trap.

Chris