have you ever had an accident?

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Just looking to see if anyone has had a close call or an actual accident that could have, would have, or was avoided with the use of proper safety glasses. I am only talking in regards to rimfire or air gun shooting.

Don't read anything into the question.

For example, I was shooting air gun one day and a pellet came back and hit my shoulder. I only felt the impact and not even skin was broken. If it had come back and hit me in the eye without glasses, it probably would have done damage.
 
Been peppered with lead fragments occasionally while shooting at plates with the handguns. Also the lacquer crap on the outside of 7.62x25 casings goes everywhere when I shoot the Tokarev. I don't know that I'd want to use it without glasses.
 
Had a marlin with a ####ty lock up and weak recoil spring cycle a squib ... Chamber the next round and whammy . Chunks of metal flying everywhere, the mags base pad smoked me in the hand.. Wasent cool
 
i was on the top of a silage bay with my 10/22 when i took aim through the scope on a crow in the field.
i let a round off only to hear a loud bang......my barrel was in line with the 1/4 inch angle iron
hand rail and the round went whizzing back past my head.
lucky escape,never sat there ever again
 
When I was nine, my cousin found some of his dads 22 lr rounds and said "check this out, they're like little bombs" and smashed one with a hammer. I got pelted all over the face with shrapnel. And most recently while shooting at a gong my 22 round hit a divot perfectly and as the round exploded, the divot sent shrapnel flying back and both me and my wife. A day later while shooting again. At around 25 yards, I hit the target on the side, thround then ricocheted off the target stand and flew by my head. I could hear the whiz of it right by my ear. I inspect my targets now before shooting.
 
FallenShadow80 said:
When I was nine, my cousin found some of his dads 22 lr rounds and said "check this out, they're like little bombs" and smashed one with a hammer. I got pelted all over the face with shrapnel. And most recently while shooting at a gong my 22 round hit a divot perfectly and as the round exploded, the divot sent shrapnel flying back and both me and my wife. I inspect my targets now before shooting.
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We had someone at work trying this with a strip of Hilti nail gun blanks. He was smacking them with a hammer on the concrete floor, trying to detonate them in quick succession to impress some apprentices. I think the strip flipped over between blows and one of them shot out and nailed him in the face. The damage was minor, and he DID have his safety glasses on, but the apprentices all say his hand was visibly shaking when he reached up to see how much of his face was missing. The following week was the most work anyone ever got out of the guy, with a suspiciously low amount of screwing around...
 
I shot myself in the left index finger with a high powered .22 air rifle on Xmas morning. It was my oldest sons first xmas too.
 
I was on the range one day and we were practicing live grenade exercises. The grenade bodies were being loaded with the explosive detonators at the back of 3/4 ton in one area when someone f#cked up big time and a live one hit the ground with the pin pulled. Six of us hit the ditch while the damn thing went off. Nobody got hit but the truck had some damage to it. Nobody hit....no report. Alcohol was a factor.
 
I have a CO2 powered air-pistol, kind of a wimpy little toy of a thing, doubt if it would even be valid for varminting (and not about to try - would be bloody inhumane)...

Anyway, I have a box trap set up for target practice. Big thick heavy box my chop saw came in. Filled with layers of that soft rubber padding that comes in 2'x2' squares to link together to pad a concrete floor. Have it set up in the garage for days when a trip to the range is out of the question. Always wear my safety glasses, no matter how wimpy it might seem. One of the biggest dangers is actually when I shoot to many BB's without swapping the CO2 cartridges - it lets me know because the BB's won't even penetrate the cardboard and can bounce almost straight back at me. Had one or two bounce off my cheeks, no big thing... But sure wouldn't want one catching me on an unprotected eye.
 
p14shooter said:
Just looking to see if anyone has had a close call or an actual accident that could have, would have, or was avoided with the use of proper safety glasses. I am only talking in regards to rimfire or air gun shooting.

Don't read anything into the question.

For example, I was shooting air gun one day and a pellet came back and hit my shoulder. I only felt the impact and not even skin was broken. If it had come back and hit me in the eye without glasses, it probably would have done damage.
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Incidents like you describe are not "accidents" they are incidents. There are incidents and negligence, there are very very few accidents.

To answer your question, yes, I've had a fair number of incidents.

Tdc
 
When shooting my Sig 226 LR conversion, I've had hot powder (?) fragments hit me on my glasses and just below my eyebrows. Looking at the marks on my glasses, had I not been wearing 'em, it would have hit me in the eye as well. Safety first folks! Wear your eye protection!
 
Trinimon said:
When shooting my Sig 226 LR conversion, I've had hot powder (?) fragments hit me on my glasses and just below my eyebrows. Looking at the marks on my glasses, had I not been wearing 'em, it would have hit me in the eye as well. Safety first folks! Wear your eye protection!
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Eye protection is so important. I find revolvers spit lead and other fragments all over. I always wear my glasses and watch for the wheel guns on the line, but you are quite right, semi auto's will send stuff out just as bad. Good safety tip on the glasses.
 
Had a friends .22 come bouncing back off a rubber reactive target and hit me in the chest. In winter, but I still felt it through a thick jacket. I saw the bugger coming for me from the moment it left the target too, like a big rock coming at your windshield. Weird.
 
Shooting at 3/4" soft steel plates with my 308 FMJ ammo. Bullet did not penetrate, left a crater in the steel. Perfect concave shape, copper jacket came back and hit me in the forearm and my friend in the leg just below his knee. I must have been in shock because when I went back to the range after cleaning up our wounds there was blood absolutely everywhere. Gun was in the dirt covered in blood, blood on the table and my clothes were totally blood soaked. Makes a hell of a story and there is still many pieces of metal in my arm. I went and invested in good shooting glasses and a proper shooting gong after that
 
I had a .22 pellet gun that was stupid powerful and soon learned that if I took a 1/4 oz finishing hammer and tapped a .177 cal bb into the bell of the pellet you would make a very high expanding pellet all fine and dandy for the goffers black PVC piping not so much and thus a very deep amount of scare tissue in my lower lip and yes I always have safety glasses and they have saved my eyes a lot of times.
 
Before we knew what safety glasses were, probably before they were even invented, pellet gun wars were THE best form of entertainment for us as kids.

Nobody lost an eye......but sure could have.
 
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