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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on March 07, 2009, 07:57:14 AM
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Whether you are a new shooter and don't understand all the safety rules, or you may be a seasoned shooter that gets lax, this is a graphic reminder of why we must always wear eye protection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDPz4ODYsnw&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDPz4ODYsnw&feature=related)
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Thanks, M, it's always good to remember the rules.
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OUCH!...Thanks for the reminder m58.
At our range, we are adamant about eyes and ears...and no steel closer than 10 yards (for just that reason). All that said, I was shooting around a barrel and a hot casing bounced off the barrel and landed between my safety glasses and cheek...I still have a scar. Now, I also wear a ball-cap when shooting.
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I used to have a Beretta 9mm that had the nasty habit of dropping hot brass down the front of my shirt. I also USED to have more chest hair than I do now. ;D
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Been hit by flying fragments myself. Scared the pee out of me the first time it happened. :o
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Good reminder, unexpected things happen.
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Good reminder, unexpected things happen.
I used to think it was "unexpected." However, as I shoot more and more I have learned that the unexpected is to not get stuff flying back.
The only time I will where shorts when shooting steel is if I expect the temps to push 100. I can not even begin to count the number of times in our short summers that I feel stuff come back and hit my body and legs in one season. One visit to AZ I was under a tin roof listening to the stuff fall on the roof and talking with guys comparing "war wounds." One older gentleman took a small zip lock bag out of his wallet with a sliver of copper from a jacket they had extracted from his lower lip five years prior. He carried it as both a reminder and an object lesson for new or callus shooters that "don't see the need ..."
I also have a friend that carries a medical card and wears a tag that he can not have an MRI. He has a metal sliver in his eye, and if he were to be exposed to an MRI it would tear his eyeball causing blindness. Do you think he is now a believer in eye protection?
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Great video m58.