Went to the range and I got injured

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Clark

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I keep telling myself that my hot handloads have never caused me any pain, but a slightly hot .380 round [way hot for a Kel-Tec P3AT with terrible case support, low slide mass, and small recoil springs], bounced off the wall and hit me in the head.
I was up against the wall to get a shot through my chrono, anyway, it hurt.
 

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Yep - looks like it would have hurt!!! If it drew blood - then it hit hard!!!

I trust and hope that eyes had protection - I'm sure they did - but imagining that into eye is not pleasant!

So - this was one of your ''screamers'' eh ........ ;)
 
I am an eye protection freak.
Shooting guns, running a mill or lathe to make gun parts is all the same.
I wear safety glasses.
My eyesight is degrading fast enough with age, without accidents.

That case, it hit me ABOVE the safety glasses.
 
I'm very pleased and grateful you're okay. But now that the danger is past, let's consider the potential for future stories: "Oh, this scar? Got shot in the head. Bullet just bounced off."
 
I have scars on my body from:
Motorcyle racing age 14 [long time in hospital]
Tree topping age 21 [long time in intensive care]
Getting a knife out of a sheeth age 14
Hot wiring a motor age 10
Cleaing land with a machetee age 31
Wading through a lagoon age 6
Pole vaulting with tether ball pole age 10
Catching a falling glass while bar tending age 21
Scatching knees in football age 14
Riding in a car that got in a head on wreck age 10
Poked with a stick while fighting with cousin age 6
Falling on face in river age 14
Hit with flying board from table saw age 48 [Delta sent me a safety book]
Operated on for Kidney machine by mistake age 21

But so far, 6 years of overloads, and no physical scars.
There is the emotional scarring from loosing some Colt revolvers:(
 
Clark,

I have often thought -- and believe to be gospel truth -- that it is a miracle when any male child survives to adulthood.

Not that girls are immune to such mishaps. I have a very convincing set of scars along my left rib cage, where I fell onto a frog gig at age 14. Ouch.

pax
 
Clark - all I can say is - you have to be in possession of feline genes cos sure as heck - it'd seem you used all nine lives and then some! :D

I too regard my current presence on this lil' rock as somewhat of a miracle - most of my ''narrow squeeks'' were in some way automotive - well, there was that .22 range rifle that shot a hole in the ceiling.! :p
 
??

Was it a bullet or EMPTY CARTRIDGE CASE that hit you in the forehead?
 
Hold the phone there, Clark!

"Operated on for Kidney machine by mistake age 21"

You've gotta give me more details on that one.

With some of the hairy reports you've given on these pages, I'd say you do the shooting safety thing pretty well.
 
A baseball cap is good for much more than keeping the sun out of your eyes at the range. Indoors it can stop brass from falling behind your shooting glasses and in this case would have been welcome padding.

I bear a scar on my cheek from something similar. You shoot enough and things can and do happen. Protect yourself as best you may.
 
Not so sure about the baseball cap thing..........

I've had light loads in .32ACP & .45ACP eject straight up, hit the bottom of the brim, and onto my face - one even lodged between my glases and my forehead! :what: Fortunately, no harm, no foul, no damage. :)
 
I am glad you are OK. I am a big believer in safety glasses too. They have saved my eyes twice (one incident involving power tools, one incident involving firearms).
 
Uh, Mark - if they ejected straight up you certainly need longer arms! And if you had a casing lodge between your glasses and forehead you need to invest in a properly fitting pair - a gap that big is not to be had in properly fitting safetly glasses! ;) :rolleyes: I suggest you review what you were doing and wearing at the time, not formulate a rule that a peice of safety equipment was not. I think it had more to do with improper use....

A baseball cap is the most commonly overlooked peice of saftey equipment on the range. Just cause you don't like 'em is no reason not to wear 'em. Just 'cause you like your sunglasses better does not mean they should replace safetly glasses (Although many kinds of sunglasses might fit well enough to do just that!) The end result is safe coverage of vital areas - not style.
 
Another vote for a brimmed hat. Of all the things that shouldn't be a problem, I have a 1873 winchester (repro) that ejects cases straight up and once in a while lands one at the top of my glasses. But it doesn't draw blood like that. OUCHH.
 
Yeah Clark...I know the problem well...My .45 ACP Colt has a tendency to ocasionally plop a case off my shooting glasses lens (You should see all the nicks). Glasses are a must along with ear plugs or muffs. Hat? I wear a western (Cowboy) hat and that .45 can still get me. L O L
 
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