What bodily damage have you received from your guns?
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Have a huge piece missing from my left cheek! Blasted guns. I am right handed and use my right eye dominant, and fire as a right handed person. Thankfully my firing stance has not been affected too much. I remember how it happened. Was at the gun store looking at a new gun. Man was it a beauty. The cheek damage occurred right there in the store. I pulled out my wallet, paid for the new pistol, well over $800 for a pistol, and replaced my wallet. That's when it happened, I'm sure. That encounter took a piece of my left cheek. Yup, my left cheek where I keep my wallet was now so flat.
MarineTech
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Let's see. Over the 25 odd years that I've been shooting, I can remember the following injuries.
"Garand Thumb" on several occasions until I learned what the heck I was doing.
A small circular scar where the bridge of my nose meets my forehead. Resulted from the first time I fired a scoped rifle (30-06) and I had my eye WAY too close to the scope resulting in the cut from my shooting glasses (You know that round wire piece on the Remington glasses.)
Small scar on the meaty portion of my right hand between thumb and forefinger. Hammer bite from a Browning Hi-power (The only pistol I ever got hammer bite from).
A small scar on my right thumb just up from the base. Resulted from the cylinder release on my Mother's S&W Ladysmith revolver gouging me after I decided to try it with full house .357 Magnum loads.
Small scar on the meaty portion of my left palm just below the thumb where I once got too energetic in closing the feed plate on an M60E3 as a Marine and managed to catch a piece of myself in there.
You can also add the obligatory minor brass burns (try getting out of a Marine Corps shooting jacket when brass from the guy next to you just dropped down your back) and the occasional sore shoulder from working up rifle reloads on heavy calibers from a benchrest.
"Garand Thumb" on several occasions until I learned what the heck I was doing.
A small circular scar where the bridge of my nose meets my forehead. Resulted from the first time I fired a scoped rifle (30-06) and I had my eye WAY too close to the scope resulting in the cut from my shooting glasses (You know that round wire piece on the Remington glasses.)
Small scar on the meaty portion of my right hand between thumb and forefinger. Hammer bite from a Browning Hi-power (The only pistol I ever got hammer bite from).
A small scar on my right thumb just up from the base. Resulted from the cylinder release on my Mother's S&W Ladysmith revolver gouging me after I decided to try it with full house .357 Magnum loads.
Small scar on the meaty portion of my left palm just below the thumb where I once got too energetic in closing the feed plate on an M60E3 as a Marine and managed to catch a piece of myself in there.
You can also add the obligatory minor brass burns (try getting out of a Marine Corps shooting jacket when brass from the guy next to you just dropped down your back) and the occasional sore shoulder from working up rifle reloads on heavy calibers from a benchrest.
mfree
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I've got a pretty long list of minor scrapes and booboos, so I'll just list the two majors:
1. Catching for a falling AR, and instead having it pivot around and smack me in the teeth with the muzzle brake so hard I saw stars. Thank god I've got strong teeth, one of the front ones wiggled for a little bit and that lip just BLED.
2. Harris bipod, unmounted. I was playing with it, snapping the legs up and down. Well, I snapped it open one last time and happened to have my pinky finger in front fo the leg stop. Let me tell you folks, those springs have some strength to them and even more so when you figure momentum in, because I just about crushed the tip of my finger off. LOTS of blood, still have the scar and some funkyness with the nerve endings there. I ripped the pad open just about down to the bone...
1. Catching for a falling AR, and instead having it pivot around and smack me in the teeth with the muzzle brake so hard I saw stars. Thank god I've got strong teeth, one of the front ones wiggled for a little bit and that lip just BLED.
2. Harris bipod, unmounted. I was playing with it, snapping the legs up and down. Well, I snapped it open one last time and happened to have my pinky finger in front fo the leg stop. Let me tell you folks, those springs have some strength to them and even more so when you figure momentum in, because I just about crushed the tip of my finger off. LOTS of blood, still have the scar and some funkyness with the nerve endings there. I ripped the pad open just about down to the bone...
PlayboyPenguin
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HerrWolfe said:Have a huge piece missing from my left cheek! Blasted guns. I am right handed and use my right eye dominant, and fire as a right handed person. Thankfully my firing stance has not been affected too much. I remember how it happened. Was at the gun store looking at a new gun. Man was it a beauty. The cheek damage occurred right there in the store. I pulled out my wallet, paid for the new pistol, well over $800 for a pistol, and replaced my wallet. That's when it happened, I'm sure. That encounter took a piece of my left cheek. Yup, my left cheek where I keep my wallet was now so flat.
I
think that is a battle scar we all share.
Archie
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In boot camp rifle training (USMC) I had a set of nicks on the right lens of my glasses. They came from the rear sight of my M14 'pecking' me in recoil. But I didn't want to change my spotweld.
I have 45-Awfulmatic-hammer-bite-web-scar on my right hand.
One time detail-stripping a WWII GI Ithaca Govt Model, I had to push very hard to get the mainspring housing off. When it gave, I put a matched pair of cuts on my left palm where the frame (the butt where the mainspring housing is located) slid across. That hurt like crazy, but didn't scar.
That's about it unless one counts the many, many small scars on my hands from making holsters.
I have 45-Awfulmatic-hammer-bite-web-scar on my right hand.
One time detail-stripping a WWII GI Ithaca Govt Model, I had to push very hard to get the mainspring housing off. When it gave, I put a matched pair of cuts on my left palm where the frame (the butt where the mainspring housing is located) slid across. That hurt like crazy, but didn't scar.
That's about it unless one counts the many, many small scars on my hands from making holsters.
cidirkona
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I got a nice cut on my right thumb from closing the slide on my Bersa with the safety lever in the down position...
Pain teaches quickly.
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Pain teaches quickly.
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Missouri Mule
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The woman of the house cut me off for a while when I brought home my last gun. Ouch that hurt!!
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