The shot that scared me to death!!
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:52 am
I have been shooting handguns for over 25 years and have been careful to not do anything unsafe or otherwise that could cause any bad situations to arise.
I had gone to my local outdoor gun range with my with my new Browning Buckmark Target pistol. I had bought some high dollar target grade ammunition to really find out what kind of accuracy the gun was capable of and started shooting at 100 yards from a bench. It was incredibly accurate, so I decided to do some fun shooting with some hollowpoint ammo at swinging metal disks at the 25 yard mark. The disks are about 6" in diameter and are attached to the frame with chain. I started shooting at one of these rapid fire and was taping it pretty good. I decided to get a little more precise and decided to pick a dark spot in the center of one of the discs to aim at. I fired one round and felt something hit me in the chest right above the right nipple. It felt like someone had thumped me with their finger and I looked down to see a drop of blood forming on my white t-shirt.........! My heart started to beat like a schoolboy after his first kiss and I started to shake, I got weak kneed and sat down. I was with a buddy, who happens to be a paramedic, that immediately came over and realized that something was wrong. we pulled up my shirt and found a very small laceration that was bleeding. He said I can see something just into the laceration and I said, in a very shaky voice, "pull it out" fearing the worst. It was a very small piece of lead from my .22 bullet. He really looked me over and to make sure that was all that was wrong and after I quit shaking, we walked down to inspect the metal disk I had shot at. The spot turned out to be the bullet dent from a .45 caliber bullet. I had missed the dent with my shot with all but about 25% of the slug, per the lead splash. The 25% left a clearly visible trail where it followed the dent into one side, across the raduised bottom and back out the other side heading my way. That 25% was what was loged into the laceration. Then I really started to shake. Now I wear all the proper equipment to protect my eyes and hearing, but I never thought I could do something like this, that none of that equipment would protect me from.
Moral: Don't shoot at those kinds of targets with large caliber guns that can make the bullet dents I speak of and then be sure of what you are shooting at.
I had gone to my local outdoor gun range with my with my new Browning Buckmark Target pistol. I had bought some high dollar target grade ammunition to really find out what kind of accuracy the gun was capable of and started shooting at 100 yards from a bench. It was incredibly accurate, so I decided to do some fun shooting with some hollowpoint ammo at swinging metal disks at the 25 yard mark. The disks are about 6" in diameter and are attached to the frame with chain. I started shooting at one of these rapid fire and was taping it pretty good. I decided to get a little more precise and decided to pick a dark spot in the center of one of the discs to aim at. I fired one round and felt something hit me in the chest right above the right nipple. It felt like someone had thumped me with their finger and I looked down to see a drop of blood forming on my white t-shirt.........! My heart started to beat like a schoolboy after his first kiss and I started to shake, I got weak kneed and sat down. I was with a buddy, who happens to be a paramedic, that immediately came over and realized that something was wrong. we pulled up my shirt and found a very small laceration that was bleeding. He said I can see something just into the laceration and I said, in a very shaky voice, "pull it out" fearing the worst. It was a very small piece of lead from my .22 bullet. He really looked me over and to make sure that was all that was wrong and after I quit shaking, we walked down to inspect the metal disk I had shot at. The spot turned out to be the bullet dent from a .45 caliber bullet. I had missed the dent with my shot with all but about 25% of the slug, per the lead splash. The 25% left a clearly visible trail where it followed the dent into one side, across the raduised bottom and back out the other side heading my way. That 25% was what was loged into the laceration. Then I really started to shake. Now I wear all the proper equipment to protect my eyes and hearing, but I never thought I could do something like this, that none of that equipment would protect me from.
Moral: Don't shoot at those kinds of targets with large caliber guns that can make the bullet dents I speak of and then be sure of what you are shooting at.
