Has flying hot brass burned you & broke skin?

[Gators716]

My girlfriend got burned on our (her) second trip to the range. One of the workers there said it was because her grip wasn't correct? We were shooting a g17 fwiw.

[whipkiller]

Talka bout burns...my sis-n-law went shooting with us over the weekend. we shot over 500 rounds...she finally decides to shoot the xd. her first shot the brass went into her bra!! OUCH!

Saw that one happen to a very pretty young lady once. It was pretty clear that her boyfriend/date took her to the range for the first time, and he seemed excited to be teaching her this "Great hobby".

I was sharing a lane with my buddy so happened to be standing back behind the lanes and watched it all unfold.

First mag after he walked her through it all, 5 or 6 shots into the mag a case bounced off the lane divider and right into her cleavage. To her credit, she didn't sweep everybody as she yelped and set the gun down... and walked straight the eff out!

I don't think the rest of the date went very well.

[Dr.Lou]

A little burning sensation, but never cut.

[SonofWWIIDI]

Had a burn mark like that (not as bad though) on my temple when a 9mm casing got caught between my temple and my glasses.

It can happen.

[tnlrat37]

Too many times to remember. Got a scar on the back of my neck from being to the right of an m60 gunner. Last time I stayed that close to those guys. It's all good, Chicks dig scars. Also burned most of my fingerprints off grabbing a Saw after a long live fire in Infantry school, reached down to grab carry handle and wasn't looking down, grabbed the barrel instead, that sucked.

[Brutmor]

I got a piece of 40 S&W brass stuck between my forehead and eye protection after it bounced off the lane divider. Ugh. It left a mark for a while.

[2shotjoe]

Yes, had one land on my thumb and i didn't feel it burn. Few days later it was infected.

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[Rosamond]

Looks like FREEDOM to me. Wear with pride!

[Murmur]

I once had a 5.56 casing get wedged into my neck on a live fire exercise in Kuwait. I couldn't stop to pull it out. It made a similar mark. Went away eventually but did leave a faint burn scar. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it. After it heals it will only be visible upon close inspection and you're the only one getting close around there anyway.

[fighter4cage]

Try laying in the dirt shoulder to shoulder with 100 soldiers firing thousands of rounds ....
Oh yaa I've suffered numerous raw skin burns from brass finding its way down the back of my neck and simmering on my back!

[dchang0]

Try laying in the dirt shoulder to shoulder with 100 soldiers firing thousands of rounds ....
Oh yaa I've suffered numerous raw skin burns from brass finding its way down the back of my neck and simmering on my back!

I was at a Magpul class run by Travis Haley and Chris Costa. Same thing happened to me--rifle brass from the next guy over went down the back of my neck and sat there cooking skin.

Haley saw it and started yelling "SUCK IT UP, SUCK IT UP!" so I did. After the string of fire was over, when I shook out the round, it peeled off with it a nice layer of sauteed skin. I probably still have the scar.

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The flip side of NOT sucking it up is like this.

One day I went with a couple of my buddies to an indoor pistol range. While we were waiting, there was a cute girl there shooting with her boyfriend. She shot a round, the case went down her shirt, and she started dancing around trying to get it out of her shirt. Sure enough, she squeezed off a round into the concrete just a couple of feet in front of her feet.

My buddy saw it all and pointed out the small trail of blood that the couple left when coming out of the range. We think someone (probably her boyfriend) got hit by the shrapnel when the FMJ round hit the concrete and the copper jacket flew off. Either that or the slide of the pistol may have struck her in the hand--we didn't see.

SUCK IT UP SAVES LIVES. Well, it would have, especially if she had turned 90 degrees and shot through the divider at the legs of the guy in the next lane...

[bk23103]

I once had a cool V-shaped scar from hot .22 LR brass in the folds of my right elbow for months after shooting my Marlin 60 as a kid. I'm a lefty.

[MG34]

Yes.

[davegonewild]

My wife has a caught her fair share to the chest

[PyroFox79]

Too many times to remember. Got a scar on the back of my neck from being to the right of an m60 gunner. Last time I stayed that close to those guys. It's all good, Chicks dig scars. Also burned most of my fingerprints off grabbing a Saw after a long live fire in Infantry school, reached down to grab carry handle and wasn't looking down, grabbed the barrel instead, that sucked.

Lol i did something similair. We were doing some kind of live fire assault training. Some Sgt had a malfunction with his saw. I run up to figure it out take the barrel off and put it on my boot as to not get it dirty. I shifted my weight, barrel went to fall and just grabbed it out of instinct. Yea that didnt end well.