Has flying hot brass burned you & broke skin?

[pdq_wizzard]

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.

I can only think that he hit a google link that took him to this thread and made an account to reply.

[hunterb]

Damn that sucks OP! Always happens to people you're trying to convince that shooting is fun....

[subrvin]

https://instagram.com/p/8E8w12oRWk/

[sonofeugene]

I think it depends more on how good the contact is between the casing and the skin and how long the contact is. I'll often go to the local indoor range in my shorts, flip flops and tie dye T shirt. Every once in a while, I'll have some brass drop on my foot. I feel it and just flip it off. However, one time my sister caught a 9mm casing in her more than ample cleavage and it left two nice burns. She said it hurt.

[beardog308]

I've never been burned, but my wrist will get chewed up from mangled brass shooting my PTR 91 from the left.

[D.A.V.I.D.]

been burned many times, actually had a 7.62x39 round hit my teeth pretty hard this morning.

[GeorgeGeorgerson]

Few weeks ago I took a friend of mine shooting (he doesn't shoot except with me), and he got a piece of brass stuck between his collar and his neck. Thankfully, I was standing right behind him and was able to grab the pistol he was holding before he tried grabbing the brass with the hand holding the pistol. I wrote it down in my shooting journal; I'm going to train putting the gun down with any new shooters I shoot with from now on, just like I take them through hypothetical FTFs and squib load situations. I'm glad I caught his arm before he accidentally swept anything or anyone. As it is, the pistol was pointed downrange the whole time.


It's happened to me a few times too, I've got a piece of brass on my eyebrow/the rim of my shooting glasses a few times. I try to intentionally react slowly by putting the gun down first, as I get burned, before removing the casing. Getting a burn > sweeping anyone or anything you shouldn''t be.

[jdogg2000]

Rifle brass is SO much hotter than pistol brass... I was shooting prone and someone's hot 5.56 brass flew into my pocket and burned my leg. No joke! I got a ~1.5" 2nd degree burn on my leg with nasty blistering the next day. Still have a scar from it about a month later, this one is not going away me thinks...

[GW]

a: yes to burns
b: the best was one went in between my glasses and my face.

Ditto
Burned my eyelid. I always wear a baseball cap when shooting after that

[Tank 57]

I looked at this thread because I didn't remember posting in it.5 years ago.

[sly-jay]

Another member of the eyelid burn club here. Brass hit ceiling, came straight down and got stuck behind my glasses.

It was kinda interesting how it looked like two marks when my eye was open, one above and one below the eye. But if I'd scrunch my eye closed, the way it clearly was at the moment of burning, it became one mark in the exact shape of a .22 casing, little tiny rim and all.

Baseball caps from then on.

[damon1272]

Uncle took a shot at a prairie dog. Round ejected and hit the back window of the single cab truck I was driving. Went down the back of my shirt, pulled the shirt to get it away from my back and it dropped into my britches. Hot .223 burns between the buns! This was on the first day of a week long hunting trip. To say I was the butt of the jokes was an understatement.

[batsone]

Has flying hot brass burned you & broke skin?

Brass caught me in between the check and glasses . I had a brass hickey for a while ,the wife caught one in the boobs[emoji41]


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[sly-jay]

I'm wondering how many people posting in this thread are lefties? At least the ones with "case got stuck behind my glasses" ?

[cdtx2001]

Got a nice scar on my inner arm in the shape of a 5.56 casing. I want one on the other arm in 308. Matching 50BMG on both arms like Caine in Kung FU would be awesome.