Your worst injury

[OEF_VET]

I had been shooting my S&W 686 upside down, holding the gun high enough to use the sights and pulling the trigger with my pinkie finger. Afterwards, I was shooting a Walther P99 and decided to give the whole "upside-down-trick-shooting-ain't-I-cool?" thing a whirl. Well, being the moron I can occassionally be, I didn't think about the P99 having a slide that would come back. It bit into the palm of my hand and tore enough of a gash that I had to be taken to the ER for a few stitches. Needless to say, my trick shooting days are over. Or, they are over until I'm old enough to develop alzheimer's and forget all about being an idjit in my younger days.

 

[mbs357]

Got hit in the forhead just above my left eye by an aluminum baseball bat. 7 stitches. What remains of the scar is now mostly covered by eyebrow (6 or so years ago?).

 

[VietVet 67-68]

Okey one day in 1968 I'm walkeig on patrol and we get ambushed. First I get a bullet through the mouth. does't hurt that much as the bullet kills the nerves for awhile. put on a bandage and we have to assult through the ambush. we get up and move out and I get a burst of AK through thre right shoulder and blows my right shoulder joint out. I can't use my right arm so I grab my rifle with my left arm and would you believe this AH comes out to see if he killed me. At least I gave him a 20 rd clip through the body and let him know. I knew I had to reload so grabed the rifle with my left hand on the barrel and burned the krap out of it. then some SB through a hand grenade and I got shrapnel in my back. Not one of my better days, but at least I made it back to tell you this!!

Keith

 

[mfree]

I'm usually pretty careful, so I haven't got anything to compare, really. Other than having my pinky where it shouldn't have been releasing the slide on my P22. That little spring has some oomph

Oh, and doesn't matter how slow the flight or how perfect the arc is, DO NOT snatch someone's spent .45 cartridges from midair.

 

[Old NFO]

Worst injury

M-1/M-14 thumb... not once, but THREE times... dang it! Also when I was about 10-11 my Grandpa gave me a 10ga Greener Express, I inadvertently pulled both triggers, ended up about 5 yards behind the line and flat on my back- Thought my shoulder was broken (which it wasn't); had bruises running almost to my waist from that thing. I've fired it maybe twice since then- I STILL flinch! Had a good friend when we were kids who was trying to open an old .22 rolling block, braced it between his legs, and the ND went into the toe of his shoe- We kept waiting for the blood, but nothing happened; turns out the round went into the toe of the shoe and between his big toe and second toe, he just had one little scrape. However his rear was hurting after his mother got through with him about "ruining" a brand new pair of shoes.

 

[english kanigit]

'Bout 6 years ago, dad had just put a scope on the SKS and we went to the range to zero it. My one gripe with this gun is that it's too short, way to short. My eye is about an inch and a half from the scope and I take the first shot. Gun recoils, scope contacts skull at high speed and the scope rail breaks right off the gun. Pain, embaressment and a nice little mark to wear back to school...

Item number to was my senior year of high school, I earned a place on the exhibition drill team. Unlike all the rich schools (who used the fancy plastic look-alikes) we had Garands, honest to god garands. In all their heavy, bone-crunching glory (minus oprod and firing pin for the leftwing communist school board ). Anyhow I took several hits to the elbow, knees and head with the stock, no biggie, after you wake up . My buddy was not so fortunate and in the process of one of the spins caught his ear on the front sight, messy. Very amusing also, 3 seconds previous he had been bragging about how he didn't need to practice...the devil's in the details

 

[BamBam-31]

I got Garand Index Finger.

I became very absorbed in cleaning the receiver of my M1 one day. I was using a Q-tip with a bit of CLP to get at every spec of junk I could find. When I got to the follower, the little divider thingy wasn't moving side to side like it usually did. Hmm, prolly a bit of junk built up underneath, right? Push it to one side, then clean up underneath. Only thing was, the bolt wasn't fully locked back. :banghead:

Kerr-CHAAAKKK!! I heard it, thought "Holy ****," and went into Matrix Bullet-Time Mode. Everything slowed down, and I began pulling my index finger out at superhuman speed. I am not The One, however. Bolt still managed to get a small chunk of my finger. Ouchie. Drew blood, too.

I'll prolly end up the answer to one of eclancy's obscure Garand quizzes.

 

[HankB]

I wonder how many people here - especially former military - have forgotten to count hearing loss as an injury?

I've had occasional minor cuts and scrapes on my hands, as well as, from time to time, a bit of purple on my shoulder. The closest I ever came to a serious injury was at an indoor range when my buddy in the next lane touched off a .41 mag. Somehow a piece of bullet jacket splashed back, glanced off the tip of my nose, and continued upwards, hitting my glasses.

Those glasses saved my eye . . . and as soon as I got home, my mother asked "What happened to you?" when she saw the scratch on the tip of my nose.

She didn't see the humor when I said "Ken shot me!"

 

[DF357]

M1 thumb
M14 Thumb

Got a cuppla real deep tracks across the web of my thumb using a Walter PPK back in the 60's

After qualifying with my M14 by firing about 100 rounds, I went to stack the rifle in a rack by grabbing the flash surpressor. Ain't gonna do that again.

 

[powerstrk]

The worst injury gunwise is when I went bird hunting with a twin trigger 20 gauge over/under. Three times both barrels lit off at the same time during a trigger pull. Ouch The most painful is when I took my pocket pistol out and let off a long string, and went to put it back in the holster and it got caught in the zipper

 

[Seafarer]

Worst accident

My worst was during my second divorce...
Oh, oh, oh, gun type, I was with 2 buds shooting a 45/70 with a scorp, when one of the other guys leanned a little to close to the scope! He still has a nice sharp half moon cut about his right eye thirty years later.

 

[45 Carry]

During night fire in the Marines shooting M-1's with tracers. We could fire as many clips as we wanted for a minute. The breaches were almost translucent red. Ordered to fall in at order arms. The sound of 100 rifles being dropped because the muzzels were too hot to hold. Then a lot of cussing. Man was that fun and a sight to see. Looked like a solid plane of red going down range then shooting straight up at 100 yards. Cool!

 

[Old NFO]

Worst Injury try 2

Hank B- I wonder how many people here - especially former military - have forgotten to count hearing loss as an injury?

You're right... completely forgot that one- between jet engines for 20+ years and shooting I'm down 30dB in the left ear and 40dB in the right ear between 3kHz-6kHz. Now if I can just find a woman that talks in that range, I can honestly say- "Honey, I didn't hear what you said."

 

[birddog]

I owned a 12 gauge Mossberg Jamomatic 5500 for a mercifully brief period of time. One morning while pheasant hunting, a shell jammed way down in the action and I reached my finger in to release it as I had time & time again. Right about then the action slid closed, slick as snot, on my thumb-tip. Oh how it bled...and hurt!!! I cleaned the blood off the gun, hunted the rest of the day with my right thumb wrapped in a paper towel, and promptly sold the piece of junk.

I don't hunt much with autoloaders anymore, but do love the Rem 1100 that replaced the Mossberg. Hasn't bitten me even once.

 

[XLMiguel]

I've been pretty luck, all my gun-related injuries have been nuisance level stuff:
- Sore/bruised shoulder from not snugging up shotgun butt
- Dropped hammer of S&W 60 on thumb
- Assorted slide bites from Sig 232, Walther PPK/S (both minor), and Beretta Tomcat (pretty good slices)

Worst non-gun injury was ruptured quadraceps accomplished while performing amazing feat of clumsiness in back yard, the cost of being out-of-shape, overweight, and careless. Tore it clean off the kneecap, most painful thing I've ever done to myself.

 

[mbs357]

Speaking of hearing loss. The other day me and my uncle went to shoot his AR-50, got his scope back from Leupold and wanted to sight it in. We talked about how the round was hitting the target and whatnot, so I moved my left muff off my ear to hear better. Forgot about it. =p Though I had an earplug in it my ear was still rocked. At least I got to hear it echoing through the woods and all. Later that evening the ear was still hurting, and it seemed like it wanted to stop hearing on me a few times.
*edit* Oh yea, just remembered.
A long time ago, me and my brother and dad were fishing on the boat. Brother somehow managed to swing his hook from his end of the boat to mine. Where did it hook me? Eyelid. Wow. That wasn't fun. Dad freaked out. I freaked out. Mom freaked out. Brother thought it was funny. >_>

 

[smokemaker]

I had a .25 german pocket pistol that would bite the web of your hand every other shot. My long since traded S&W model 28 spit lead in every direction except the black. I've got little scars on my arms and face to prove it. I've caught more than one scope in the forehead or the bridge of my nose.

The closest I've come to being killed so far (I'm not counting Hodgkins disease): When I was in the AF working on the range at Eglin AFB I had a suspension lug from a 1000 pound bomb embed itself into the bunker wall we were standing by during a 10000 pound shot. It missed my head by three inches.

 

[Brian Williams]

M16 eyebrow from the rifle range shooting in the prone postion while in the Marines

 

[Strings]

I've had LOTS of odd injuries...

Asorted cuts and such (usually from playin with sharp objects)...

Lost the use of my right arm once. Went out one day to testfire the load work-up for a 6.5x 55 Swede. 100+ rounds in less than an hour (I was in a hurry). Didn't think anything of it at the time. However, it agravated the old injury there (gotten while rollerblading): couldn't move the arm from the shoulder the next day...

Had a fun one this summer. Out at the local range with Spoon. Decided I was going to wear my kilt (which turned out to be a good thing). Had a piece of .45 brass from her Kimber drop down my shirt (which is why the kilt was a good thing: just pulled waistband forward)...

Absolute WORST injury was while in the Nav: got jumped in San Diego, had half of my face destroyed...

 

[mr hanky]

Quote
"I said a few, well more than a few, thing I cannot relate because Art's Grammaw would skin me alive. I also believe some of the things I said were anatomically impossible"

ROFLMAO

Good man

 

[45 Carry]

I did forget about hearing loss and tinnitus. So bad I get VA disability for it. It does however help with the wife. I don't know I miss things, the world is quieter except for the constant cicada and sound generator sounds that sound like you're tuning an old radio.

 

[MuzzleBlast]

Two words:

Garand thumb.

 

[armedcitizen]

Okey one day in 1968 I'm walkeig on patrol and we get ambushed. First I get a bullet through the mouth. does't hurt that much as the bullet kills the nerves for awhile. put on a bandage and we have to assult through the ambush. we get up and move out and I get a burst of AK through thre right shoulder and blows my right shoulder joint out.

You win!! Thank you for your service.

 

[AK103K]

Other than assorted bounce back rounds, taking a couple of hits of bird shot while hunting and a constant ring in my left ear, my M1 going grenade from a slam fire was the worst. Lucky for me it was during the slow fire string and it wasnt in my shoulder when it went, as we never found the rear of the receiver. Just got a nice "L" shaped scar in my palm from the op rod handle to remind me.

 

[LiquidTension]

Hmm...most of my injuries on the firing line are to my pride

Other than that, I've gotten a few scrapes from rough edges. The combination of being safe and lucky has done me well so far....