What bodily damage have you received from your guns?

[Smokey Joe]

One of the best!

Nematocyst 870--Most of these owies do only happen once! Pain is one of the best teachers!

 

[usp9]

What, What did you say?

 

[TF_FH]

I was messing with Commissar Gribb's M1 Garand. Got a nice cut on my index finger from pushing the follower down a little bit when the bolt wasn't locked back all the way.

 

[AStone]

Last night, just before bed, when my neurons weren't firing at full throttle, I wrote this, demonstrating the fallability of human memory (it ain't memorex):

As I racked for the fourth time, the web between thumb & fore finger got caught in the 870 action.

After booting down and crawling in the sack, I realized that couldn't be right. No way to get that thumb/fore finger web trapped behind the pump fore end.

Nope, I had read about so many 'web pinches' in this thread that my memory was altered.

What really happened: I let my left hand slide back on the pump handle until my pinky was in a position to get pinched between pump & receiver. Of course, I was racking hard. (One of the issues with pumps is a jam caused by 'partial racking', so best to do it with lots of kinetic energy.)

It took a chunk out of the skin on the outside of my pinky (sort of the 'web' on that edge of my hand), and raised a blood blister above it on the pinky.

Hurt like hell.

That was about 45 days ago. All healed up. Nothing remains but a bad (and sometimes, inaccurate) memory, and a resolve to keep my left hand firmly on the pump handle when racking.

Nem

 

[molonlabe]

A nice little round ring over my eye from a mossberg mariner firing a 3 inch sabot round from a 26inch scoped rifled slug barrel. The whole thing wet weighed about 61/2 pounds. Knocked the crap out of me. A decellerator pad tamed it.

 

[OneFireStick]

When I was 14, I saved up and bought a Beeman pellet rifle. I was out hunting one evening with it and saw a large empty beer bottle laying by the irrigation ditch. I threw it in the water and it was floating bottom up. When it got 20 yards away, I aimed at the bottle and fired. I heard the pellet hit and immediately my shooting eye went into severe convulsions for about 5 minutes forcing my eye shut. When I finally opened it, it felt like sandpaper had been poured in my eye and everything was blurry. I got home and looked into the mirror. What I saw was freaky. The very front of my eye (cornia) was no longer round but shaved flat and there were gouges all around the outside or white part of my eyeball.

I went to the eye doctor and he said a piece of glass came back at me very fast and hit my open eye shaving and cutting up my cornia. Luckily, he said the eye is the fastest healing part of the body. I had my eye taped up with gauze for a week, only opening it to put some drops and cream in it. It healed up fine and from that day forward, I always wear eye protection when shooting, no matter what the weapon.

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

I'm a member of the bloody thumb club--Ruger MKII slide. The Ruger is gone and traded in on a Mossberg Persuader. My handguns are all revolvers.

 

[Spinner]

One day I bought me a second hand Browning semi-auto take-down .22LR rifle. I was real pleased with that little rifle till I fired it for the first time.

The Browning design automatically ejects the spent brass straight downwards out of the ejection port on the bottom of the action .... which just happened to be positioned immediately above the sleeve of my shirt on my left wrist as I held the fore-end. Hot .22LR brass down the shirt sleeve gives you quite a wake-up call when you're not expecting it.

Spinner

 

[sm]

-Not mine personally (I would not own one of the damn things).

There is a certain shotgun that I have the distinction of breaking Six of in one way or another. I was asked to test two and four more times asked to "test them out"...

They are sharp, and not just the metal, the stocks have been too. Stocks are one-peice, and when they break...and they have, talk about sharp!

Since I have mangaged to figure out to break the/this action / this gun...my theory is whack and break the gunstock when its quits running and use it as a "black tack-tickle edged weapon".

-Factory stocks on -yet another- 1911 clone. They should market these stocks as Tack-Tickle Paper Tigers...Or Tack-Tickle Cement Pattern-Makers. I have tough hands, chewed me up but good!

-OPRT (Olive Pit Removal Tool) Some know this as the green tool to unlock the J-Hook Safety on Remington Shotguns. I would like to choke the idiot that dreamed up that idea. Sharp to say the least. I won't get into the other stupid and un-safe reasons that idiot designer needs to be choked.

-Above idiot my have kin-folk making plastic gun cases for some factory guns.
Now bad enough the bean-counters have screwed the pooch on Quality Control, they got rid of Classic Wooden Gun Boxes, The Classic Cardboard ones and the neat tools, scewdrivers,lube and such that used to come with a new handgun. Oh remember instructions without 42 pages of CYA in 128 languages?

That was not enough, oh no, now they want you bleed to death before you get to shoot the gun and found out how much they lessened the QC and Quality of parts. Gun stays in sharp plastic you cannot open safely.

I got an idea, forget the cute snap design, just use one of those frigging gun locks thru some holes to keep lid closed...'bout the only thing a lock would be good for...

Gawd...and folks wonder why I prefer the older guns, packaging , QC and such...

*sigh*

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[Billmanweh]

I can't believe we're 2 pages into this and I am the first one to have had

Garand Thumb!!!!

I think I still have a small scar on my back when I caught some of your .223 brass down my shirt. Thanks a lot!

 

[Berek]

I got a couple of scars, but the funniest was as follows:

I was working for a local shop owner doing pre and post work cleaning. I was working on a Taurus PT92 (which I now own...) and the slide bit me. I was due for a break anyhow, so I walked out to the main floor where my boss's wife (a mother of triplet boys (4 years-old at the time)) and, in my whiniest voice, walked up to her and said "I got a boo-boo! It needs a mommy kiss!" and I'll be danged if she didn't pucker up and start to turn. She looked up at me, still puckered and I broke. I laughed so hard I almost wet myself.

Her husband, who is also my best friend (and not because he owns a shop...) still comes to tears telling the story. That was 2 years ago.

 

[Berek]

When I was 14, I saved up and bought a Beeman pellet rifle. I was out hunting one evening with it and saw a large empty beer bottle laying by the irrigation ditch. I threw it in the water and it was floating bottom up. When it got 20 yards away, I aimed at the bottle and fired. I heard the pellet hit and immediately my shooting eye went into severe convulsions for about 5 minutes forcing my eye shut.

A Cristmas Story flash back! "You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!"

 

[Shel]

Practicing, chambering rounds in my Bersa Thunder .380, with snapcaps. I had the gun in my right hand, and I tried to chamber a round, I cut a gash in the top of my thumb on my right hand, with a fingernail from my left hand. Hurt like hell for days, eventually healed, no scar.

 

[Marshall]

I am lucky with semi's - never yet been bitten and so far have not had the ''slide part-amputation'' problem

Same here. I can't relate to all the biting, no semi-auto has ever bit me? Wonder what all the reasons are why some get eaten and some don't?

 

[Frandy]

Only from my (now gone) Neos...

Let's see, at the range the Neos consistently threw brass at a pefect angle to bounce off the wall divider and go down my shirt, burning the front of my chest. When breaking it down for cleaning, the sharp edges cut the webbing of my hand. Otherwise, nice .22.

 

[Arkie]

Only one burn so far,,,

A 45 casing bounced off the wall and landed in my shirt collar and rolled onto my neck as I was squeezing off another round on my CCW test. Put a pretty good blister on me and he also gave me another shot when he watched me dig it out and toss it to the ground.

 

[Sleeping Dog]

A burn on my cheek where a hot case was held there by shooting glasses.
A burn on my foot where the case went into my tennis shoe.
A bloody thumb from an M14 bolt (in basic training)
A bruised shoulder from 12ga slug recoil
A cut hand from the hammer spur of a shotgun.

And probably more to come.

 

[sm]

Differs from :

Rite of Passage

Examples of Rite of Passage include but not limited to:

-Garand Thumb [OMT]

-Sliced index finger from the inside of Rem 1100 opposite from loading port.

-Hot brass down shirt. Ladies get extra style points...

-Using 4 rules of Safety, and 'putting' long gun into gun case about the time the dog decides to 'help'' with holding gun case.

Style points are toss up on this one. For guys doing this wearing nothing but skivvies and barefoot...

Ladies wearing nothing but a bathrobe not tied real well...barefoot of course...

Either way the dog always manages to get out of the way in time to watch the muzzle find your foot/ big toe. Watch the two of you do a dance, wife has parts he has not noticed before, husband knocks wife into door facing...dogs just runs into front room , rolls on floor with a dumb grin...dog laughing I swear..

Don't believe this happens? Ask the next person that walks funny arriving to shoot. See what "reasons" you get.

When you and the wife both do this , 1) We were feeling frisky and both managed to trip over the dog at the same time. 2) We dropped her sister's muffins on our feet. Needless to say that ex SIL was part Ellie Mae.

See...Rite of Passage differs.

Note: My shotgun cases have "character". Meaning the zippers aint' zipped in decades. You gently lay the shotgun in it, and use the cord to keep the remnants of case around shotgun. You carry "this" under your arm...handles, what handles? Handles are for getting caught on door handles, trunk parts, and other junk in a truck tool box.

I got this stuff all figured out.

 

[44MagRules]

BRUISED SHOULDER FROM FIREING A PRACTICE RIFLE GRENADE OFF A M1 GRAND.
FROM THE SHOULDER. JUST HAD TO SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE.
PINCHED WEB BY BERETTA 21.

 

[bigmike45]

I provide safety training for contractors working in the petrochemical industry. I also teach gun safety, hunter education and am working on getting my instructors license to be able to teach the CHL course here in Texas.

One of my previous gun safety students, who is a safety director for one of my contractors, came by yesterday with his right hand all wrapped up. Naturally I asked about the injury and was it job related. He told me no, it was a self inflicted gunshot wound and I just about fell over.

The man had just finished cleaning a single action Ruger blackhawk in .357mag and was reloading and spinning the cylinder to what he thought was an open bore to lower the hammer. This guy still follows the "hammer down on an empty bore" philosophy, even though this a modern gun with the transfer bar safety in place. The hammer went down hard enough to set off a round. He was holding the muzzle in his hand to aid in lowering the hammer and the bullet went through the fleshy part between the thumb and index finger, taking muscle, tendon and a big chunk of flesh with it. He is in therapy after the surgery where they replaced some of the muscle and tissue with some from his leg. Needless to say his guardian angle was working overtime on this one and he will never live it down amongst his colleagues. I am just glad he survived and no one else was hurt. He was at home alone when it happened.

 

[camper]

M1 thumb!

 

[whitefeathersniper]

bodily damage from guns

i have been able to avoid m1 thumb and hakim thumb. but the mosin nagant bolt managed to bite me before. i was firing rifle and was experiencing sticky bolt syndrome. i was slamming it closed onto a new round and some how managed to get part of the flesh of the ring finger caught in the bolt taking out a chunk of skin. i finished the magazine while bleeding like a stuck pig all over the grass

 

[2400]

What body damage have you received from your guns?

I can't think of any from my guns. I do however have a few from other guns.

 

[SalTx]

Accidently, I believe tinnitis, that god awful sound in my ear...never goes away, but a pleasant atmosphere does wonders. Self inflicted gunshots on body armor produced very severe bruises, but very interesting to observe 22, 32, 38, 9mm, and 40 cal. rounds stop and you continue to engage targets.

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

No injuries in recent years but when I was younger I was shooting cans with my grandmother (our tri-county marksmanship champion) and I decided to try a draw and shoot from my holster with her weapon which had a longer barrel than mine and the barrel hooked on the holster and I fired straight into the top of my foot with a .22 cal revolver.