Never take your eyes off

[HighLander51]

Never, ever, take your eye protection off while shooting. You can take your ears off, your hearing will come back, but not your eyes. This was a frag from a popper at a match. The heavy Harley T shirt stopped entry into the skin, but if it went into your eye? ER time.

[Corbin Dallas]

Ccwusa took a 10mm frag to the underside of the chin a few years back. A shooter at a steel match at pala last year took a full frag under the left forearm.

Needless to say, safety is of the utmost importance even if your not the active shooter.

[joelogic]

I get hit with frag all the time at USI in the action pistol area.

As a note, your hearing does not come back.

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) occurs when the tiny hair cells (nerve endings) that detect sound in the ear are injured, diseased, do not work correctly, or have died. This type of hearing loss often cannot be reversed.

Sensorineural hearing loss is commonly caused by:

Acoustic neuroma
Age-related hearing loss
Childhood infections, such as meningitis, mumps, scarlet fever, and measles
Meniere's disease
Regular exposure to loud noises (such as from work or recreation)
Use of certain medicines

[sargenv]

Huh?

[Kempfer]

Wear a hat too. I've had a hot casing get between my glasses.

[reckoner]

I'd say don't take your eyes off while OTHERS are shooting, either. At a USPSA match this weekend I caught somebody else's splatter from a steel target right on the chin. It didn't break skin, but it felt like it was pretty damn close though. Definitely would have caused some major eye damage.

[freethemouse]

I've been hit with pieces of lead from an apparently mis-timed[?] .357 revolver that the guy next to me was shooting. One piece hit me on the cheek that stung a bit, and one hit me in the arm that actually drew blood. I politely informed him that his revolver is shedding lead and moved to another spot.

But yeah, eye protection always! I get a lot of burnt powder on my hands and arms when I shoot my Marlin 795. Thankfully for me, I need glasses to see anything at all, so my eyes are fairly safe most of the time.

[HighLander51]

As a note, your hearing does not come back.

No, the point is take your ears for 2 seconds, bang, bang, oh, I forgot to put my ears back on. Take you eyes for for 2 seconds, bang, bang, splat, and you are on your way to the ER.

[Intimid8tor]

I took a frag to the side of my head earlier this year. Had to get it removed at doctor a couple days later. Hit just below my hat band

[kpblade]

While at a class shooting steel, I removed a piece of jacket from a woman that had pierced just below her lower lip and had come through to her inner mouth and also had nicked her gum. She was observing beyond the 20 yard line when it happened.

[TATB]

I have been hit with fragments a few times at USPSA matches. I wasn’t shooting and the fragments came from the next bay. They were just stings in the face or neck, but enough to make me always wear my glasses while on the range.

[IntoForever]

I wear wrap around glasses at all times when on the range (outdoor). I was wearing regular sun glasses and a pellet from the near by shotgun range went inside, bounced off my nose and out the other side. Either eye could have been hit causing serious damage.

[daybreak]

yeah, been hit lots of times but nothing that's broken skin so far. I absolutely always wear my eye pro for this.

[Gryff]

This is why Richmond (my home club) requires eye protection on at all times when you are on the action pistol range. It's not an option.

[The Virus]

A dude in my squad took one in the hand last weekend , I had to pull it out and patch him up. The frag was kinda stuck in there pretty good.