Has flying hot brass burned you & broke skin?

[Ronin2]

What type of shirt was the wearing at the range? Maybe its time to suggest to the wife that she start dressing "appropriately" for the activity.....

[fritztkatt]

I've seen some nasty scars from cmp shoots in the corps. The brass gets caught behind your neck by the flack jacket... I usually just get hit in the face with the brass being a lefty. It always seems like the righties get burnt.

Occasionally my 1911 or glock will eject one right into my forehead, or bounce off the wall/divider at iron sights. No burns though.

[JohnnyMtn]

This has happened to me several times - received bad burns on my left forearm when shooting AQTs at an Appleseed shoot.

They pack you in pretty close on the line at an AS. Depending upon the shooter to your left, you sometimes get brass continuously showering you throughout the day. There were times when prone during the middle of the AQT I would get a casing land right between my arm and the shooting mat. Well, I wasn't about to mess up my NPOA and thus my AQT by shaking the burning brass loose. So I would continue shooting the string while that brass burned away at my arm.

Like I said, this has happened to me several times and left a good bubble and ultimately small scar on my arm each time.

This was always with .22 brass which would explain my oak-like resolve. I could NEVER do that if it had been a larger caliber.

[epilepticninja]

http://www.thegunzone.com/556dw-3.html

Scroll down to February 1983 and read where the problem was identified in M16A1E1 Testing (adopted as M16A2) where there was a warning published in the Aberdeen Proving Ground Technical Feasibility Report of this hazard and it was classified as a "catastrophic/occasional deficiency". That is a innocuous term in and of itself but then find a copy of MIL STD for Safety and you will see that it says in effect a system will not be fielded until that problem is corrected.

I broached this with several attorney friends who specialized in injury cases/liability and a judge and would anyone like to guess what they said?

Your first post and you resurrect a five year old thread? Outstanding! You will fit right in. Make sure you visit FP's basement for some loving of the manly kind.

[jrpowell3]

Just about every EMP range I did in the Marines, had at least one or two pieces of hot 5.56 brass go down the back of my flak jacket.

[HowardW56]

http://www.thegunzone.com/556dw-3.html

Scroll down to February 1983 and read where the problem was identified in M16A1E1 Testing (adopted as M16A2) where there was a warning published in the Aberdeen Proving Ground Technical Feasibility Report of this hazard and it was classified as a "catastrophic/occasional deficiency". That is a innocuous term in and of itself but then find a copy of MIL STD for Safety and you will see that it says in effect a system will not be fielded until that problem is corrected.

I broached this with several attorney friends who specialized in injury cases/liability and a judge and would anyone like to guess what they said?

Couldn't you find an older thread to comment on?

[jtake]

Ditto. Hot 223 case got caught in my glasses as well. Nice burn mark above the corner of my right eye.

I had one land right on the rim of my shooting glasses (and stay there)
It gave my eyebrow a nice little "love mark".

I was not amused.

In my other "stupid things I've done", I let my bare arm touch the barrel of my AR after dumping 4 30 round magazines as fast as I could while in Nevada.
I still have the beauty mark from that on my arm. My only regret is it didn't brand the Noveske logo into me....

[Condorguns]

Times like this I miss Trenchfoot and his Necro post pic. *sigh*

Tank top
Bra
still have the scars.

Yes even when we know better we all make mistakes.

No I'm not posting pic's

[ElDub1950]

The worse burn I had ever received was a .45 casing that landed between my sunglasses and my right eye leaving a burn line from my eye lid leading down to my cheek. At one point it looked like a permanent scar but with neosporin and 10 days of healing it went away.

Yep. Had a .40 brass wedge between my glasses and eyelid. Luckily got my eyes closed in time. Took a couple weeks to completely heal.

[toddytguns]

Once during an off-duty qualification, I had a just fired .40 brass bounce off the divider and land in the back collar of my polo shirt. I calmly completed that course of fire, made the weapon safe and then removed the offending piece of brass.

[teg33]

Burned by hot casing, yeah couple times but that's part of enjoyment of shooting

[Smith80]

Brother in law and I were at an outdoor range once. I was standing just behind him and to the right watching him shoot when I felt something hit me. Looked to the guy to the right of us. He was shooting a mini-14 and that thing was really chucking the brass. I was about to move away to get clear of it when one of the shells nailed me between the eyes leaving a half circle gash between the eyes. Had blood running down my face the rest of the range trip. Man those mini-14s can really throw brass.

[bohoki]

ive been burned on the arm cause it caught and sat for a half second but it was just mild

[sl0re10]

a: yes to burns
b: the best was one went in between my glasses and my face. Had a nice burn case mark under my eye I was showing people at work.

had a bunch end up in my hair but they've never burned it that I can tell.

[BajaJames83]

Guy next to me one time slung a 223 case under my forearm and it left a nice 223 case shaped burn with scar for over a year.