Now that smarted

[SeaCat]

My wife and I were down at our local range this afternoon. Nothing new there, we're there on a weekly basis.

I start out my shooting regimen with the usual longer disatnce shooting. Nothing insane, just 25 yards. I'm doing well and am happy with the results.

I reload the magazines and reset the target to the ten yard mark. I'm planning on doing some double taps. Nothing crazy.

I set my handgun and magazines on the bench and run out my target. I pick up my hand gun and grab the first magazine when I'm dropped by a blow to the groin. We're talking I'm feeling like I just got kicked by a Mule.

I lay there for a minute holding myself. WTF? The only person near me is my wife and she certainly didn't just kick me. Rolling over I sit up and check things out. No extra holes to be found. What happened? Then I look down and sitting between my legs is a large piece of metal.

I pick it up and look it over and realize what it is. This is a bullet, a large caliber bullet. I can tell from looking at it that it's not a 9mm like I'm firing. Sitting there I hold it in my hand and look around. There are only tow other people shooting. My wife and some guy on the other end of the range.

I get up and wander down to check out what he's shooting. He's using an older handgun, a .45. I look at the round in my hand and it seems like the right size. Then I hear a buzz and realize this guy isn't hitting the target each time. He's also hitting the target supports. Oh hell with this.

I grab my wife and get her out of the range until the guy is done shooting.

Yep, I got shot in the nuts with a .45 Cal. and walked, or limped away from it.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I knew a guy once who got bit by a hippo and survived. Must be about the same! Ouch.

 

[jomar]

What they call a vasectomy the hard way,,,

 

[TE999]

Now that's what I call popping a cap!

Where was the Range Monitor while Pistol Pete was firing ricochets?

 

[DesertPirate]

Ouch!

Wonder if he would accept lessons

 

[SeaCat]

Now that's what I call popping a cap!

Where was the Range Monitor while Pistol Pete was firing ricochets?

The Range Master was in his usual and needed place, walking behind the lines and watching things.

It was after I was hit and managed to climb back to my feet that we looked into it and found out what had happened.

The target holders are open squares made of welded Angle Iron with clips at top and bottom to hold the targets. These squares are hung from a cable that allows them to be run out onto the range without the shooter having to step beyond the firing line.

It seems the shooter had hung an oversized sheet of cardboard on the frame and put several targets on it. I've seen this done more than once, hell I've even done it myself. Unfortunately one of these targets was right over the angle iron. One of his rounds hit the angle iron and ricocheted, in just the right direction.

Thankfully the round was slowed enough by the change in direction that it didn't cause more than nut busting pain. (I would say nut numbing pain but they certainly weren't numb.)

After all was said and done the Range Master and myself did find some humor in it. Some terrible jokes were bandied about as we re-wrote the range regulations to stop the use of multiple targets.

Cat

 

[JagFarlane]

Hmmmm my first guess is this is an outdoor range. But really what comes to mind is wondering, why your range doesn't have a cease fire rule in effect? Most ranges that I've gone to, with a Range Master and that you have to walk to your target, they have a cease fire rule. This essentially, is a time period for people to walk to their targets, where no one is allowed to discharge a weapon.

 

[bb_peaks]

Ouch.

 

[sutherngent985]

I guess my question would be WTF are they using iron target frames for. That opens the possiblity of not just richocheing downrange but back at the firing line as well. All the ranges I have ever been to have both wooden target frames as well as a cease fire rule in place. In fact, I have never heard of a range that allows shooting when people are beyond the firing line and that is strictly enforced. The range you are using, if you will forgive me, doesnt seem to think things through very well. Not trying to open a can of worms, just an opinion based on what you wrote.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

The target holders are open squares made of welded Angle Iron with clips at top and bottom to hold the targets. These squares are hung from a cable that allows them to be run out onto the range without the shooter having to step beyond the firing line.

Some of you need to pay better attention.

 

[oggbashan]

Some of you need to pay better attention.

Reading AND understanding a post?

That's heresy.

Og

 

[Guest]

Oh, Cat.

Ouch.

 

[JagFarlane]

Some of you need to pay better attention.

Ah right, typical indoor range then...