Every now and then...

[ColMike]

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.