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Shot in the face!!!

doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I went to the range ( again ) today, and was alone, except for some guy on the other end shooting some little .22 plinker. Even with a rifle, even at close range, this guy couldn't hit anything. He kept hitting the little clip up top that holds the target, causing ricochets. Ordinarily, the way the range is set up, all ricochets still get sent straight to the backstop. Well, after about half-an-hour, he reloads and shoots. About .5 seconds after the shot, I feel something smack into my cheek, right in front of my earmuffs. It felt like someone just cocked back a finger and flicked my face, and it really caught me off gaurd. It drew a very small amount of blood, and I'm positive it will heal nicely, as it seemed like only a fragment of the bullet. But if something like that can happen with a stupid little .22, who's to say what bigger rounds could do? Maybe I need to find a different range!

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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Several years ago one of my hunting partners and I were out shooting our Ruger #1's in 45-70 with the 300 grain Barnes X bullet loaded to 2300 FPS. Took a shot at a steel 1" gong at 100 yards and the Barnes X bullet just exploded and sent fragments all the way back to the fireing line. Another time while doing a bowling pin shoot there was a guy shooting pins with a Ruger Old Army blackpowder revolver. One of them round balls came back off a pin and took him in the ankle.

    AlleninAlaska

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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am glad it did not hit you in the eye...or hurt you more than it did.


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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once in a while when we are shooting a steel match, someone gets hit with a piece of metal. No injuries by anyone so far. Eyes and ears always.I don't think you should change ranges, just watch who you are shooting next to, and change lanes if you can.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    See a doctor-you might have enough lead to cause poisoning!
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    If a bullet hits something hard and bounces back in the direction from whence it came, it carries VERY LITTLE energy with it, having spent most of it on whatever it hit.

    If it hits a hard surface and ricochets at an angle to, but in the same general direction as it was fired, it can carry a lot of energy with it.

    I have been hit by bounce-back bullets from steel targets. Stings a bit, but never have had the skin broken. ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Owch.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nunn -

    Yer right about bounce back type "ricochets" not carrying much energy(and a damn good thing that they don't, either!). I was "shot" in the leg once with a .45 by a guy standing about 10 feet from me.

    I was with a couple of fellas a few years ago who were trying out a new 1911. They were firing at targets that they had set up about 30 yards away at the base of a sheer dirt embankment. Middle of the winter, hard frozen earth.

    After one of the shots, I felt something smack me in the leg, looked down, and lying in the snow was a .45 slug. Didn't even break the skin, but it did smart a little.
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  • Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This thread is the best proponent for wearing eye protection that I've ever seen,wear them glasses fella's

    "If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    This may be obvious to most, but I have seen it at the range... Do not wear Glass Eye protection.... WEAR ONLY PLASTIC EYE PROTECTION...

    Have seen too many in the ER with glass in their eyes because of not wearing plastic ...

    Glad you are okay doomsknight...


    Lil' Stinker's Opinion

    Edited by - BlackRoses on 08/20/2002 09:17:59
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good Point


    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im glad to have my little Range.


    bEST!!!

    Rugster


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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    I have seen several instances where fragments came back and BROKE THE SKIN, drawing (once) lots of blood!!!! The instance where there was a lot of blood was a scalp wound caused by jacket material coming back from a steel target (as were all the others that drew blood).
    As a result, we no longer allow jacketed ammo when shooting steel targets. As several others have mentioned - ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis

    Edited by - shootist3006 on 08/20/2002 21:09:41
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was shooting at grenade fuzes atop engineering stakes at about 30 feet when I felt a blow to the center of my neck. The .30 carbine bullet core went through the stake but the jacket rebounded and stuck in my neck. Fortunately my buddy was able to pull it out and it didnt penetrate through the windpipe. Talk about being scared!
    Firing tracers will demonstrate that bullets ricochet in every direction even in a gravel pit.
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  • j2k22j2k22 Member Posts: 329 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    got nailed by a returning .40 cal FMJ in the side of the neck. Lucky that the tissue there is very soft, and nothing hard behind it to hold the skin against and puncture. Had the guys beat the grass until we found the offending slug. Could have been a problem if it had hit against bone.
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  • oldfriendsoldfriends Member Posts: 167 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    While young, my cousin and I were shooting our .22s. We were about 5 feet apart, firing in about the same direction. He was shooting at a bird that had just landed and I was shooting at an old valve cover in the sand creek. I shot and he yelled. He looked at me and I looked at him. He moved his hand from his thigh and had the slug in his hand. It had ricochet'd and hit him in the leg and his reflexes were so quick he caught the bullet before it hit the ground. It did not break the skin, only a small red spot. We were always careful about what we shot at after that. Never did tell our parents.

    Life is Tough!It's Tougher if You're Stupid
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  • mbrookmbrook Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Plastic break away sabots are also known to come back. Our range has a series of wood baffels and the sabots from shotguns frequently bounce off the wood and hit the shooter.

    "When one responsibly procures his family's dinner by hand, each meal becomes a sacred rite. It is good, and so is the feast!" --Ted Nugent
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, never had a ric-o-chey but i had a couple of colt troopers that loved to shave rds. mark3 would likely do one in six ,not alway the same oneand mark5 would do two in six. got so nobody wanted to be around when i fired them. respt submitted dads-freehold
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