Be Careful Out There

[fx77]

Today I met a nice gentleman at the range. He had a Farley Rest with two verticle mirrors angled 45 degrees each on either side of the rest attached to the two limbs of the bases on the near side of the rest
Curiously I asked him what for:

He said he had an accident. He was measuring his chamber at the range with a dummy round for OAL. He lost the bullet on extraction in the rifling. He did not want to go back to the truck for a long brass rod so he pulled a trick of dropping a short rod about 6 inches down the barrel to knock out the bullet.

He then chambered a live round and fired..Lost most of the vision in his left (dominant)eye when the action exploded. Seems he left the brass rod fragment in the barrel.

Thus the mirrors to allow him to see the wind flags when he shoots with the one remaining good eye...he can see the target and the flags in the mirrors, he used to shoot with both eyes open....

Careful

 

[hecksf]

THat story seems familiar. I think he posted here on the CF BR forum.

 

[Butch Lambert]

Yes, Mr. Tinkham is a very good shooter and shoots a lot. He will not let his eye be a stumbling block.
Butch

 

[Donald]

Yes, Tink is back and shooting good. And that is one strange contraption he uses. I looked thru it, strange, but I guess it works for him. As long as he has been shooting, you can still have a lapse of memory. Be careful, shoot safe.

Donald

 

[Montana Pete]

This is the kind of tragic accident we imagine no experienced shooter would make, but it happens. Like the time my dad shot a 30-06 through the roof of our house.

When I set up at the range, before I insert the first cartridge, I ALWAYS remove the bolt on my rifle and glance up the barrel to be sure I see light. It just takes a couple of seconds. One guy asked me yesterday, "why did you do that?"

Another "redundant" little safety step -- before seating bullets in loaded cases, I shine a penlight flashlight into each case to eyeball the powder level.

As some of us live to be "old dogs," we have had a few bad experiences over the years. We pick up some quirky little habits based on self-preservation. We get really careful.

Sorry this happened, and am glad the gent got back into shooting.

 

[caroby]

This is the kind of tragic accident we imagine no experienced shooter would make, but it happens. Like the time my dad shot a 30-06 through the roof of our house.

When I set up at the range, before I insert the first cartridge, I ALWAYS remove the bolt on my rifle and glance up the barrel to be sure I see light. It just takes a couple of seconds. One guy asked me yesterday, "why did you do that?"

Another "redundant" little safety step -- before seating bullets in loaded cases, I shine a penlight flashlight into each case to eyeball the powder level.

As some of us live to be "old dogs," we have had a few bad experiences over the years. We pick up some quirky little habits based on self-preservation. We get really careful.

Sorry this happened, and am glad the gent got back into shooting.

Well said Pete.... All heed these suggestions ... Very glad to be shoot'n with Tink again!
cale

 

[digisol]

Be carefull ? I watched a new guy come to the pistol range with a real nice fairly expensive classic 9mm Luger.
The obvious happened as he fired the first round of what was to be his very first attempt at pistol relaoding where the barrel now would have taken a .45, the slide had expanded and popped off the frame rails, and the frame now had a gaping split all the way down to the mag opening on one side, bit like a hand grenade.
After the mess was cleaned up and all the other shooters had a look at the now german paper weight the obvious was asked of him as to what happened when it was revealled this was his first ever go at reloading.
Seems that with no instruction and also no clue into loading anything but a sling shot he had then filled the 9mm case (literally) then rammed the slug far enough into the compressed W-231 powder charge so it allowed the cartridge to just feed, lock up and fire.
Scary stuff, but it shows that the difference between basic ignorance and outright insanity are not that far apart.
The rest is now history but it shows that some people are just not meant to do certain things, real lucky.