Hmm, railraod tracks on the web of my right hand when my Jetfire bit me, finger pinched in slide of an auto when I was a kid, cut up my palm when trying to force a stripper clip of cartridges into my VZ-24, brusies on my shoulder from shooting buckshot all day, dropped loaded mags on my feet (both of them!), and of course, the dreaded Garand thumb.
What bodily damage have you received from your guns?
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No_Brakes23
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Someday I'll get that beavertail gripsafety and bobbed hammer for my 1911. When I was thinner it never bit me, but now I have just enough fat to creep over the end and POW the hammer gives me a little stinging kiss.
Since I plan on buying an M1 Garand this year I will no doubt have that famous injury to add to my list.
While drilling with my M16A2, I have cut my self numerous times when I had a litle too much "snap and pop." Slings have sharp edges.
Just the other day I discovered the "bipod" forearm of the SU16CA will slice ya if you stroke it the wrong way.
Since I plan on buying an M1 Garand this year I will no doubt have that famous injury to add to my list.
While drilling with my M16A2, I have cut my self numerous times when I had a litle too much "snap and pop." Slings have sharp edges.
Just the other day I discovered the "bipod" forearm of the SU16CA will slice ya if you stroke it the wrong way.
My Mak went rat-a-tat-tat. Gave me a pretty nasty boo-boo. GSW's ain't no joke, man. 
Edited to add: This is a gunshot wound, folks, not hammer bite, etc. My Mak went full-auto on me. What you're looking at is the exit wound, the entry wound is a small 9mm scar at the base of my palm.
Edited to add: This is a gunshot wound, folks, not hammer bite, etc. My Mak went full-auto on me. What you're looking at is the exit wound, the entry wound is a small 9mm scar at the base of my palm.
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geekWithA.45
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Buncha stupid little doinks and ouchies.
-Walther bite from my TPH
-Blood blisters from getting my fingers caught in the action during cleaning
-Cut by brass, neat half moon bloodmark on my forehead, which has all healed up.
-Burned by brass
-Bruise & slight perforation from a .45 ricochet
{shrugs}
Big boy toys, ya know?
-Walther bite from my TPH
-Blood blisters from getting my fingers caught in the action during cleaning
-Cut by brass, neat half moon bloodmark on my forehead, which has all healed up.
-Burned by brass
-Bruise & slight perforation from a .45 ricochet
{shrugs}
Big boy toys, ya know?
lucky_fool
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I got a pretty good pinch disassembling the bolt for my Mosin once.
My wife somehow managed to pinch her hand open releasing the slide on a 22/45. Words to make an RSO go pale - Do you have a band-aid?
Of course, all my guns have managed to take pretty good size chunks out of my bank account. And those never grow back as fast as I'd like.
My wife somehow managed to pinch her hand open releasing the slide on a 22/45. Words to make an RSO go pale - Do you have a band-aid?
Of course, all my guns have managed to take pretty good size chunks out of my bank account. And those never grow back as fast as I'd like.
kentucky_smith
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Wife beat me over the head severely one time when she realized that our bank account was short several hundred dollars.
I think castiron skillets should be licensed. Think of the husbands.
I think castiron skillets should be licensed. Think of the husbands.
HankB
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I've had the usual runs of nicks, scrapes, small cuts and such from cleaning, shooting, and working on my guns. Once I got a (minor) case of magnum eyebrow from shooting a .375 with a 'scope that had too-short eye relief.
And of course, in the mirror I've noticed an occasional purplish cast to my right shoulder when washing up at night after a day at the rifle range or trap field.
All in all, shooting seems to be a lot safer than skiing, roller skating, football, and many other sports.
The closest I've come to a serious injury occured when my buddy and I were at an indoor pistol range, and in the next lane he touched off his brand new .41 Magnum. A piece of bullet jacket came back, hit the tip of my nose - scratching it slightly - and bounced up off of my eye glasses.
NEVER shoot without glasses!!
And of course, in the mirror I've noticed an occasional purplish cast to my right shoulder when washing up at night after a day at the rifle range or trap field.
All in all, shooting seems to be a lot safer than skiing, roller skating, football, and many other sports.
The closest I've come to a serious injury occured when my buddy and I were at an indoor pistol range, and in the next lane he touched off his brand new .41 Magnum. A piece of bullet jacket came back, hit the tip of my nose - scratching it slightly - and bounced up off of my eye glasses.
NEVER shoot without glasses!!
chaim
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OK, since other people are posting minor things as well...
No scaring from anything my guns did (I'm pretty sure all my scars are from non-gun related injuries), but I've had some minor injuries. The rubber grips from the Taurus 605 used to give me a "rug burn" that actually broke the skin in a pretty large area of my thumb (all the skin in about a 1cm x 1cm area was torn away) when I shot a box of magnums out of it. I had some major swelling for about a week after shooting only 15 rounds of .38spl out of my S&W 442. I've had revolvers that were spitting lead actually draw blood on my face (a pretty common thing I believe). Quite a few times hot brass went down a shirt or got caught in a collar giving me a nice little burn. Last range trip I had a .40S&W case come back at me and hit my forehead so hard that it drew a pretty good stream of blood. The corner of the beavertail on my Bersa is sharp enough that more than a box of ammo at a time will cut the base of my thumb (no, I haven't got around to taking the Dremmel tool to it).
That's all I can come up with right now. Nothing serious, but none of these were particularly pleasant at the time.
No scaring from anything my guns did (I'm pretty sure all my scars are from non-gun related injuries), but I've had some minor injuries. The rubber grips from the Taurus 605 used to give me a "rug burn" that actually broke the skin in a pretty large area of my thumb (all the skin in about a 1cm x 1cm area was torn away) when I shot a box of magnums out of it. I had some major swelling for about a week after shooting only 15 rounds of .38spl out of my S&W 442. I've had revolvers that were spitting lead actually draw blood on my face (a pretty common thing I believe). Quite a few times hot brass went down a shirt or got caught in a collar giving me a nice little burn. Last range trip I had a .40S&W case come back at me and hit my forehead so hard that it drew a pretty good stream of blood. The corner of the beavertail on my Bersa is sharp enough that more than a box of ammo at a time will cut the base of my thumb (no, I haven't got around to taking the Dremmel tool to it).
That's all I can come up with right now. Nothing serious, but none of these were particularly pleasant at the time.
two small scars
One is my right thumb at the cuticle (tends to tear easily, I have extremely dry skin) but I tore it open something awful the first time I shot my S&W m37 because I wasn't holding it right and the thumb rest on the grip was pushing down on it with each shot. Also, I have small scars on each palm from when I tried to shoot early on with longer nails (not LONG, just longer than fingertip length.
Springmom
One is my right thumb at the cuticle (tends to tear easily, I have extremely dry skin) but I tore it open something awful the first time I shot my S&W m37 because I wasn't holding it right and the thumb rest on the grip was pushing down on it with each shot. Also, I have small scars on each palm from when I tried to shoot early on with longer nails (not LONG, just longer than fingertip length.
Springmom
I had a little 40 gr .22 bullet bounce back at me and hit me in the twins.
Scared me to death. I could not bear to look, so I holstered my Single Six and...well, did a recon with my hands. I was relieved to find out that there was no damage, but I didn't open my eyes until I heard my wife ask, "What. Are. You. Doing?"
Biker
Scared me to death. I could not bear to look, so I holstered my Single Six and...well, did a recon with my hands. I was relieved to find out that there was no damage, but I didn't open my eyes until I heard my wife ask, "What. Are. You. Doing?"
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1/2' scar on web of right hand from a Berretta Tomcat slide. Traded it for P-32, never happened again. Various cuts on thumb and fingers jacking the slide on my Ruger MkII and not getting them out of the way fast enough. Still tries to get me now and then. I probably got a few hot brass scars floating around...
TexasRifleman
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I can't believe we're 2 pages into this and I am the first one to have had
Garand Thumb!!!!
Garand Thumb!!!!
I wasn't shooting it but a friend of mine was shooting one of my pistols at an indoor range while I was in the next lane. Apparently he shot the steel target hanger just right for the copper jacket and possibly some lead to bounce back and hit me in the webbing between my first and middle fingers of my left hand. Scared the heck out of me and hurt like a mofo. I have a 1 inch scar as a souvenier.
Always wear glasses - if that had hit an exposed eye...
Scared the heck out of me and hurt like a mofo. I have a 1 inch scar as a souvenier. Always wear glasses - if that had hit an exposed eye...
MS .45
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Small scar on right-hand web from constant hammer-bite from my SA G.I. 1911(Got to get a beavertail). Had .45 brass get in between my safety glasses and my face. Nice little burn but no scar.
I bought a NIB Russian Makarov a few years ago and took it to the indoor range to see how it printed. I was using a two hand grip and apparently got the weak hand too high and the slide caught me and cut out a groove exactly like, and in the same place, as the wound in Bam-Bam-31's picture. A lot of blood came out. I never liked that pistol and sold it shortly after. Way too heavy for the caliber it shot.
ARs tear up my middle finger on my right hand. This can be fixed with a Gapper, but I don't carry one around.
I have tiny spots where bounce backs have hit me, none noticable.
A Desert Eagle .50 somehow broke the skin on one of my fingers.
I have tiny spots where bounce backs have hit me, none noticable.
A Desert Eagle .50 somehow broke the skin on one of my fingers.
DontBurnMyFlag
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first time I ever shot a 12 gauge with a pistol grip my hands got sore. but then I put a folding wire stock on it, and put my cheek up to the gun and BAM, fat lip! Oh well, thats what happens when your young.
I was gonna say "none, what's wrong with ya'll," but then I remembered....
Stupid little thing. Before Kel-Tec sent me their new ejector for the P-3AT, I got whacked by flying brass in the forehead. The angle of impact was just right on the case mouth, and I bled a little from a smiley-cut. Kept shooting, and got 3 or 4 of those little bleeders. I'm a slow learner. I was embarrassed to go home that night and let my wife see my head. As I recall, I didn't quite get cleaned up enough and she noticed it.
No lasting scars that I can see. And the new ejector angles the brass off really nice. I was wondering why that hadn't happened earlier in my 3-year career with that pistol, and realized I'd probably been limp-wristing it a little that day, which brought the ejection angle back to my head, instead of more straight up.
Stupid little thing. Before Kel-Tec sent me their new ejector for the P-3AT, I got whacked by flying brass in the forehead. The angle of impact was just right on the case mouth, and I bled a little from a smiley-cut. Kept shooting, and got 3 or 4 of those little bleeders. I'm a slow learner. I was embarrassed to go home that night and let my wife see my head. As I recall, I didn't quite get cleaned up enough and she noticed it.
No lasting scars that I can see. And the new ejector angles the brass off really nice. I was wondering why that hadn't happened earlier in my 3-year career with that pistol, and realized I'd probably been limp-wristing it a little that day, which brought the ejection angle back to my head, instead of more straight up.
Never had M1 thumb, but how about 1100 thumb?
Camp David
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When I was a kid, I went to a sandpit with some friends and someone handed me a little Ruger .22 auto to shoot... not familiar at all with semi-auto slides, or handguns in particular, I wrongly and stupidly put my cheek close to slide to aim and learned a lifelong lesson! Stupid!!!!
NateG
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Other than anorexia of the wallet, just a couple of burns/cuts on my left cheek from using a left-handed AR. I was grinning too much to notice that the brass was hitting me on the cheek. I learned just how much it must suck to be left handed.
1911Tuner
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Injury
While doing a hand-over-slide live round ejection with an older Colt LW Commander...the ones with the old-style pointy ejector...the round got hung up in the ejection port and I executed a back-and-forth movement with the slide, when BANG!
Took a long breath before I could bring myself to look at my hand while I tried to convince myself that I couldn't have crossed the muzzle. Left palm stinging, heel of right hand likewise...a little blood. I turned my hand over and saw a half-circular cut that perfectly matched the base of the Hornady
230-grain truncated bullet. Heel of my right hand was peppered with brass shards that had been blown down the magwell...and then I saw it. The primer, impaled on the ejector.
Yes, Virginia. Smooth live-round ejection is important.
While doing a hand-over-slide live round ejection with an older Colt LW Commander...the ones with the old-style pointy ejector...the round got hung up in the ejection port and I executed a back-and-forth movement with the slide, when BANG!
Took a long breath before I could bring myself to look at my hand while I tried to convince myself that I couldn't have crossed the muzzle. Left palm stinging, heel of right hand likewise...a little blood. I turned my hand over and saw a half-circular cut that perfectly matched the base of the Hornady
230-grain truncated bullet. Heel of my right hand was peppered with brass shards that had been blown down the magwell...and then I saw it. The primer, impaled on the ejector.
Yes, Virginia. Smooth live-round ejection is important.
Nicky Santoro
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I have a Marlin O/U which is not a good fit. It beat my shoulder up good when I used it for skeet.
My Garand taught me the true meaning of "M1 thumb".
My Garand taught me the true meaning of "M1 thumb".
mbs357
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Mostly just fingers getting caught in bolts...luckily .22 bolts.
Nothing serious at all.
Nothing serious at all.
Was shooting at an outdoor range with my girlfriend, firing a S&W 629, 9 inch barrel, and she touched off a shot with it that hit the steel table that the pins were on, and a piece of splashback about 3/4 inch long came back and embedded itself about 1/8 inch into my arm.
If I would be John Kerry, I'd have a purple heart for that now.
If I would be John Kerry, I'd have a purple heart for that now.
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