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#1
07-02-2014, 03:49 PM
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Every now and then...
you get a reminder. Sometimes you get off cheap and sometimes it's expensive. Here's a reminder moment from my range trip several days ago.
It's a thrown together range with adequate backstop and we use it for quick tests of new loads or for short shooting sessions. Here's a pic of part of the range. It is appropriately named "the  pits". So I want a quick session with my DW CCO as I'd been shooting other than iron sights and didn't want to lose the front sight fixation needed for most all my shooting and my cowboy shooting. I fired 3 magazines at a target backed up to within 15 feet of the backstop. the gun functioned fine with rounds on target and no feed/fire/extraction issues. At the end of the third mag, I cleared the weapon and while doing so, hear this whistling sound and then THUD on my arm. There is no doubt what the sound was, I had just shot myself indirectly. Somehow, the bullet pased through the target, hit the berm, ricocheted up and back and found me! I always say how stupid these people on TV are for shooting into the air cause that bullet has to come down and now I have proof.  Now come the whatif's.. what if it hit me in the head. what if it hit me in the eye. etc. So, when the RO says it's time for glasses, it's time for glasses. I had mine on but it would still have been a heckuva experience if it hit my glasses instead of my arm. Be careful out there.
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M H Davis COL USA Retired NRA Benefactor COTEP CCO0617 Eufaula, Alabama Isaiah 6:8-10. 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" 
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#3
07-02-2014, 04:07 PM
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Amen to safety! However, your situation sounds like one of those 'stuff happens' scenarios. That strikes me as being almost as random as a piece of an airplane falling off as it soars miles overhead. Glad you're OK!
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#4
07-02-2014, 04:13 PM
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Glad you are ok. I took a ricochet to the neck which drew blood. A guy at the other end of the line was shooting at a 45 deg angle at steel, ricocheted back at me into my neck. Follow the safety rules and it can be a safe sport.
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#5
07-02-2014, 04:54 PM
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I call those God moments.
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canis fidelis cave canem, vereor non magnus nocens lupus In hoc signo vinces If you can list them, you ain't got enough!!! Life Member NRA, SCI, ATA, NSCA COTEP 414
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07-02-2014, 07:49 PM
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Glad that you are OK Mike.
 I was hit with a bullet fragment which drew blood from one of our sponsored shooters, JJ Racaza who you might also remember from Top Shot!! A fragment from shooting a steel plate is what hit me. Of all places it was in the face, glad I had on my safety glasses but then I always wear them at the range.
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"This is the 44 Magnum AutoMag and holds a 300 grain cartridge and if properly used can remove the fingerprints"!! COTEP # CBOB0152
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07-02-2014, 08:08 PM
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Cool that your OK.
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________________________ CBOB696 Lifetime NRA Member The biggest pain in the a** you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every morning. Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
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07-02-2014, 09:49 PM
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Glad you're ok sir. I routinely take shrapnel, but it's coz I practice "kill the hell out of everything" drills on the steel close up
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NRA Life Member Wilson Combat CQB Kimber Tactical Pro II S&W J-Frame .38 ect " I don't own the clothes I'm wearin', and the road goes on forever "  There's a gator in the bushes, and it's calling my name... COTEP #523
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#10
07-02-2014, 11:16 PM
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#1 Range rule...Have fun and don't leave a blood trail.
You can never be to careful. And only as safe as those shooting around you practice safety. I have taken shrapnel in various areas of the body from many competitions but nothing to write home about.
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