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Have you had any accidents or incidents while at the range? I'd like to hear your stories. Here's a recent incident that happened to me.
A few days ago I was at the firing range shooting my Ruger SR9C. Everything was going normal. I was constantly getting pounded in the head by the usual spent casings that were bouncing off of the barrier to my right. All of a sudden, I was hit in the right temple by what felt like a rock. I knew that this wasn't the normal smack in the head by a casing. It was much harder of a blow. There was a sharp, burning pain. I laid my gun aside and felt of my temple. I could feel a peice of metal sticking out of my skin. I looked at my finger and saw blood all over my finger. I then went to the rest room, and, upon looking in the mirror, I could see the metal sticking out. For the life of me, I could not manage to grab it and pull it out. I decided to go home and fish this thing out of my head. It never occured to me that the guys at the range probably had tweezers or neddle nose pliars there.
At home I had a very hard time, even with tweezers, getting that peice of metal out of my head. It hurt like crazy. It burned like it had pepper all over it. It looked like a small peice of slightly twisted steel. It definitely was not lead or a peice of the brass casing that I had fired. I stipped my gun down, and I could not find a single thing wrong in the gun. The gun was perfect with no peices broken off of it anywhere. I still have no clue what that thing was or where it came from. It hit me from the right side, and if it had been one inch lower it would have gone behind my glasses... straight into my eye.
There was a person to the right of me who was shooting. I wondered if they might have hit one of the arms holding their target, sending a peice of it my way. But, with the barrier between us, I don't see how I got hit at that angle. This mystery goes unsolved.
Here's a video of someone's unfortunate range accident:
Warning: There is some lanuage used by the victim.
A few days ago I was at the firing range shooting my Ruger SR9C. Everything was going normal. I was constantly getting pounded in the head by the usual spent casings that were bouncing off of the barrier to my right. All of a sudden, I was hit in the right temple by what felt like a rock. I knew that this wasn't the normal smack in the head by a casing. It was much harder of a blow. There was a sharp, burning pain. I laid my gun aside and felt of my temple. I could feel a peice of metal sticking out of my skin. I looked at my finger and saw blood all over my finger. I then went to the rest room, and, upon looking in the mirror, I could see the metal sticking out. For the life of me, I could not manage to grab it and pull it out. I decided to go home and fish this thing out of my head. It never occured to me that the guys at the range probably had tweezers or neddle nose pliars there.
At home I had a very hard time, even with tweezers, getting that peice of metal out of my head. It hurt like crazy. It burned like it had pepper all over it. It looked like a small peice of slightly twisted steel. It definitely was not lead or a peice of the brass casing that I had fired. I stipped my gun down, and I could not find a single thing wrong in the gun. The gun was perfect with no peices broken off of it anywhere. I still have no clue what that thing was or where it came from. It hit me from the right side, and if it had been one inch lower it would have gone behind my glasses... straight into my eye.
There was a person to the right of me who was shooting. I wondered if they might have hit one of the arms holding their target, sending a peice of it my way. But, with the barrier between us, I don't see how I got hit at that angle. This mystery goes unsolved.
Here's a video of someone's unfortunate range accident: