http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc
OUCH!

Ed, if that is you I now understant your post
on the political forum.

Some freaky stories here, fortunately I have never been hit by anything worse that a copper jacket fragment.

One time I was shooting .45 in an indoor range when a guy sets up in the booth next to mine. he runs out a target to 25feet and then makes some unfamiliar gun noises, then unloads a full canister of .45 from an old gold plated fully auto Tommy gun.

The noise was fantastic and all this totaly trashed brass arced over the booth divider and rained all over me. I must have got 5 pieces of hot brass down the back of my shirt and had some stuck in my hair.

I can see why the things where so popular with mobsters, they are pure anadulturated drama.

I would NEVER!! rat myself out on a deal like that.
It's going to the grave with me.

Rich
DRSS

When I was about 8 or so, I shot at a power-pole insulator laying on the ground. It was only about 5 ft away and the .22 went into the groove between the ridges and came straight back at me. I still have a scar between my eyebrows from that slug. It was only a small fragment, but it scared the heck out of me. Way too close for comfort!

Back about 1973 this guy up the street tried some mushrooms, shortly after I was riding my Suzuki Trail Hopper down a trail behind his house. He mistook me for a gobbler and shot me in the back as I passed by with a 22LR HP. Lucky it hit a fence post before hitting me. I never had much use for mushrooms after that. I still have a numb spot on my shoulder were that bullet hit me.

I would suggest ballistic goggles as used by the military. At least that part of your anatomy will be protected. Back when you cou;ld get a supposedly non-firing Tower flint pistol from EIG on the west coast (over thirty years ago) we converted those to firing guns. Once at an indoor range we were having a BIG gundown in which we would fire everything we had, modern and blackpowder at a target. I forgot to pull the ramrod out of the pistol. I fired, had the gun rotate and kick back thus dropping out of my hand. I also hear a loud clang! downrange. I found the ramrod which was laying there somewhere. The examples listed here are something to be weighed by all shooters as often it involves conventional ammo of some sort in establiushed ranges. Full jacket stuff can be a problem.

Only hit by my Scope!

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Originally posted by Nashcat:
...when he finally got it all together, the compressed air blew the round ball through the windshield of a car sitting at the pumps. Needless to say, the woman sitting the in car wasn't impressed.

Carumba! That's not good at all.

Hi Guys,

I just read all of the post about firearm mishaps. Some are honest to god accidents and some are just shear stupidity. Kinda gets your attention reading them though. Now my 1 story:
Two friends and I were out at our private range one day. Got the tables unloaded and set up. Bob was going to shoot first. John and I were standing off to the left about 15 feet and about 5 feet behind. Bob is putting his gun in his shooting rest and fiddling with it. KABOOM.
What the F%$# was that. Bob said he was fouling the barrel but he was just as suprised as John and I were. I will not shoot with Bob anymore or fire any ammo he has loaded. He likes to load everything to max and doesn't understand about pressures and velocities and pressure signs. Scared the hell out of me.

Tony

Well considering we all have them, I thought I would post how I got hit. My buddy and I were at an indoor range that was 15 or 20 yard affair shooting my 1911 and his sig 9mm.Well after emptying a few magazines each, he asked to shoot my 1911 which I willingly gave to him along with a couple mags. On the 5th shot I got smacked in the shin and started bleeding. He unloaded the gun and looked down to find about 100 grains of my 200 grain lead SWC bullet next to my foot. Still got the scar and stopped shooting at that range since several of my friends have had similar experiences there. The bullet trap must me angled wrong or we're really unlucky.

I shot at a bird with my pellet gun, pellet bounced off something and went right back into my mouth, breaking a molar. Imagine my suprise spitting out a piece of tooth and a pellet!

OK, here's my story (or one of them).

I was at a training session where a bunch of us were lined up to fire an M-60. (I was participating in a kind of summer camp for teenage boys. We were all supposed to get to fire a few rounds full auto.)

The M-60 experienced a failure to eject, and of course the next round could not enter the chamber and everything got jammed up.

While the instructor cleared the weapon and tried to figure out how to remove the case in the chamber, it turned out it was a live round. We never did figure out how the round in the chamber was live. They did not explain such things to the campers.

Anyhow, the round cooked off and the case flew out, hitting one of the guys in front of me in the side of the calf. Didn't hurt him at all, but he jumped about 6 feet in the air.

Then, for some reason they cancelled the rest of the demonstration.

I didn't get to fire an M-60 until almost 8 years later.

Larry (Lost Sheep)

Yukon I did the exact same thing, only the bullet came back and hit me in the chest.
Damn those little round pieces of paper in those salt blocks must be irresistable.
Just left a hell of a welt and an education.

But apparently only about salt blocks as several years later I shot at an old 5 gal propane tank in a junk yard approx 75 yards away and something slapped the snot out of my right cheek.
I put my hand up and it came away covered in blood , the 22 bullet had put a slice across my cheek from lip to my ear.
When I walked out to see what had happened the bullet had just entered into the circular ring around the valve and ran around the lip as evidenced by the lead trail and then shot straight back at me.

I was shooting from the hip so I still thought it was a pretty good shot, just stupid..

Here are a couple more for ya'lls enjoyment. I was shooting my 45acp @ a plate on a spring. I figured 30yds would be ok. 2nd shot the bullet came back right past my head(I felt the bullet clip my ear) and smashed the window of the clubhouse during a board meeting. I shoot a .454 Freedom model 83 alot. I was shooting a max safe-pressure load from Buffalo Bore. 360gr at a velocity nobody would believe. Three of my friends and I were standing around a pig trap with a large(537lb)boar inside. He was pissed. I decided to lean over and shoot him point blank in the head. BANG! the blood starts gushing out of the top of his head and continues for a minute or two. There was no exit wound. I was a little puzzled until I cleaned the critter. I found an oblong hole in the skull and bone shards in the heart and lungs and further in the abdominal cavity. One of my friends(the guy owns the ranch) called me to ask me if I had fired a shot at one of his trees. He dug the bullet out of an oak tree next to the pig trap. It was about 4 inches in. The bullet had ricochetted off the pigs skull and thank God it didn't hit one of us. I shoot them in the neck now. It is still quite a mess. Wish I had pictures. On the plus side that was the whitest, cleanest, best tasting boar I've ever eaten.

Funny story! Somewhat I geuss because he lived and people still give him a fair amount of crap about it.
My step brother Scott. Missed the broad side of a barn hit a rock and the 22 came back and hit him in the stomage. he had to have it surgicaly removed. Luckly no permanent damage was done, but he's ego!
MM

I posted this on the African section and Saeed paid me 600 million dollars (from Zim).

Every year we hunt/fish alligators and there is always something that happens that generally requires stitches, money to fix, or perhaps CPR.

My brother-in-law (who tends to be the victim) and I pulled up to an alligator on a line. I stopped the airboat about 20' away. I removed the 22 magnum from the gunboot, drew a fine bead on the gator's head and squeezed the trigger.

I will now sidetrack a little bit. 22 magnum bullets will at times break apart on a big gators head. It can be a little messy at point blank range.

The instant I fired the shot the "bullet" ricocheted and hit me just below my eye. I touched my cheek with my hand and could feel the blood. "Brother-in Law I shot myself" I screamed. He immediately pulls my hand from my face and begins laughing.

At this point I was shot and hurting and he was laughing. I figured it was payback for things like the wasp sting between his eyes, now that was funny or when he cut his hand and had to get stitches, neither of those incidents were really my fault.

Well the laughter continues and he pulls the blood from my face. It turns out to be the the remains of the alligator's eyeball not the bullet. It stung like hell but began to feel better. I could not do that again if I tried for a 100 years.