Watch That Grip!

[Joe Chartreuse]

Well, "The Stupid" kicked in mightily yesterday. As some may remember, I have been working toward compensating for what was a pretty quick eye dominance change. I worked with position of finger ion the trigger, stance, sighting, etcetera. Well, I also decided to try a different grip. I was using an LCP .380 close in at around 35 feet. and was too stupid to allow for circumstances with new grips. A shell flew out and nailed my cover hand, which was ( I believe) held too low. Helluva gash with blood just dripping off my finger. I WAS improving and felt that I was getting back, but had to go and take care of the damn thing. When one has a gun in hand one MUST concentrate on what they are doing and why. Geez, I feel like a jerk rookie.....

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Don't feel bad. As a child I had two firecrackers, one in each hand. I lit both and threw one.....
My fingers throbbed for hours. I think I was 12 years old. Hurt like hell.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

:unsure:

 

[eveled]

I’m amazed I can still count to ten. My hands are covered in scars but I still have all ten fingers. Stuff happens. Don’t beat yourself up about it.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Here's some more good advice. Don't drink while you're reloading brass.

 

[protoolman]

Not seeing how an ejected shell cut you?

 

[eveled]

My Dad was tough as nails. Then seemingly over night his skin turned to tissue paper. It was challenging to deal with.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Not seeing how an ejected shell cut you?

Bingo....that's what I want to know. I've seen a lot over the past 45 plus years in various capacities of firearms exposure and just when you thought you heard it all......

 

[Fox Mike]

Not seeing how an ejected shell cut you?

What ^ said. I have held my LCP 380 as many ways as I possibly can left handed and can see no way an ejected casing could hit my hand unless I was holding my hand above the gun.

 

[Yaworski]

Don't feel bad. As a child I had two firecrackers, one in each hand. I lit both and threw one.....
My fingers throbbed for hours. I think I was 12 years old. Hurt like hell.

When I was a teen I had a Black Cat firecracker go off in my hand, right next to my ear. After hearing my mother preach for years, I was surprised that I still had my fingers. Singed the skin a bit and my ear rang for a bit but I survived.

 

[gunzo]

My Dad was tough as nails. Then seemingly over night his skin turned to tissue paper. It was challenging to deal with.

I worked with my hands my entire adult life & they were pretty tough. Now, retired 10 years & I can get cut pretty doggone easy.
Even bought some of those tacticool shooting gloves(well, mechanic gloves from WM) to cut down on hand injuries. Ha! ya have to wear 'em. Decided to step out the back door & pop off a few rounds of 9mm in a short Kahr auto. The checkering on those is really rough so I wore a glove for my shooting hand & never thought to glove up the other. Well, the heavily sprung slide slipped out of my hand & tore a chunk out of my thumb.

 

[Randyzzz]

Yeah, the older you get the easier it is to cause a leaker. Never been cut by an ejected shell however. I did peel some skin when my finger slipped off the Blackhawk ejection button…

 

[akbluz]

The chance of bleeding is even worse when you are on blood thinners. Beware of sharp objects. Ask me how I know.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Not seeing how an ejected shell cut you?

.380 shells are light, but the round has some power. Shells will blow 15 or 20 feet ( I was outside). This one shot back ant the open edge caught my cover hand.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Bingo....that's what I want to know. I've seen a lot over the past 45 plus years in various capacities of firearms exposure and just when you thought you heard it all......

What ^ said. I have held my LCP 380 as many ways as I possibly can left handed and can see no way an ejected casing could hit my hand unless I was holding my hand above the gun.

Just nailed in one- including me being a southpaw with a handgun ( I shoot long guns right handed- go figure). In this case the left grip was low and the cover hand was high.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

I shot M16-A1's when I first joined the service. I'm a southpaw so I found out real quick about hot 223 brass going down my shirt.
I had to button my uniform all the way up whenever I had to qualify.
M16-A2's had the brass deflector so it wasn't an issue anymore.

 

[kmoore]

I won't say that can't happen but, sounds like the common cut. The slide cut a finger or webbing.

 

[gnappi]

Injuries while shooting happen.

I was shooting a major .38 super in an unramped Colt (no more unramped for me) at a range and a case gave way. My nose was (not bad) bloody but my glasses saved my eyes. I went into the range and a gal shouted "He's been shot"

Another time one of my hot 220 grain .45's at a pin match came back straight at me and hit me in the chest. I lost but finished the run, went out into the lobby and there was a big red welt growing on my breast bone. Damn that hurt.

My buddy went off to a car dump and was shooting his .45 at cars, when he shot at a tire rim it came straight back, hit the brim of his baseball cap and knocked him cold. He woke up hours later in the dark and confused drove home forgetting all of his gear at the dump and when he realized the gun was still there he went back to get it. No more shooting at derelict cars any more for him :-)

 

[Kevin]

I wear glasses and quite often when shooting at indoor ranges, cases bounce off the stall walls and get wedged right by my temple. Or if I’m wearing candles, down at my toes.

They burn!

 

[wproct]

My Dad was tough as nails. Then seemingly over night his skin turned to tissue paper. It was challenging to deal with.

I can identify with this. I'm the same way, I was a farm kid and my skin was tough with many callouses, never worried about cuts or bruises. Then by the time I was around 65 or so my skin is like paper. Anytime that I'm working in the garage with my mower or tractor I have to wear leather gloves. I get cuts even If all do is bump my hand against a piece of metal. And then I bleed forever, if my hand is hanging down by my side the blood will run from my hand. Also I bruise extremely easy and I will be black and blue over nothing.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

the cover hand was high.

As in right next to or covering the ejection port?

This is as baffling as the (vanishing) mini-14 spent cases being shot through the barrel.....:unsure:

 

[Gryff]

When I was a teen I had a Black Cat firecracker go off in my hand, right next to my ear. After hearing my mother preach for years, I was surprised that I still had my fingers. Singed the skin a bit and my ear rang for a bit but I survived.

Well, know that you aren't a complete moron. My Dad was a reconstructive surgeon and worked on a kid who thought it would be funny to blow an M80 through a metal tube like it was a blow gun. Didn't make it all the way through before detonating.

 

[gnappi]

My Dad was tough as nails. Then seemingly over night his skin turned to tissue paper. It was challenging to deal with.

Man I thought I was alone!

My dog likes to play rough and sometimes her toenails rip my skin wide open with what seemed like barely a scratch on her effort.

Add to that my dad once said that the skin on the bottom of your feet gets thinner as you age and I thought it was impossible but now the underside of my feet sometimes feel like I have no skin and I'm walking on bone!

 

[eveled]

Man I thought I was alone!

That is why I mentioned it. We all go through variations of the same things.

The only thing worse than getting old is dying young.