Getting burned by hot ejected auto shell casings

[Y_lifter]

Lesson learned... Don't wear a Golf shirt with an open collar when shooting and auto... Stick with a T Shirt...

Went to the range last week after work and was wearing an open collared
Golf Shirt shooting my Colt 1911 45 auto.

A hot shell casing flew up/out and landed right down into my shirt at the neck/collar area and onto my skin and the shirt trapped it there..

I felt it and yet didn't stop shooting that clip, as I was doing
Pickup, Shoot speed practice.

Very nice painfull .45 shell casing shaped burn mark that is scabbing over finally.

 

[manny78]

Happened to me twice last year with my P7 which is know for ejecting shells like rockets. But it wasn't enough for me to learn a good lesson until I had the same bad experience with a MP5 auto and around 5-6 shells on my neck....

 

[3nigma]

OK, that sounds painful, but cool in a way - shell scars .

 

[Colonel Ingus]

I shoot a lot of competitions, and this is pretty common. In Bullseye, my buddy's Smith 52 would eject the brass right into the ball cap I wear when I shoot. It's a bit distracting, and I once had a piece of brass go in between my glasses and my face, but it fell right through. I hook my weak thumb inside my belt in front of me when I shoot Bullseye, I've had brass land on my arm and although I've tried to concentrate and ignore it, the feeling of it sizzling against my skin always makes me shake it off.

In High Power, it's usually the guy two positions to your left that throws brass your way. And God help anyone next to a guy shooting a Ruger Mini-14 or Mini-30...those things throw brass hard enough to make you bleed. I think rifle brass is hotter too.

Everyone says that if you're concentrating like you are supposed to be concentrating, you don't even notice it......if that's true, then I must not be concentrating enough, cause I sure notice it when it happens.....every single time.

 

[Y_lifter]

Even worse is being in a small high walled range booth where the brass is ricocheting all over the joint, back at you, on you. You don't even feel the .22 shells falling on you, but the .45 autos are large, and I felt probably a dozen or more land on bare skin for a split second and still kept firing..

This one got trapped and did damage..

 

[Timanator]

Man, you just need to toughen up!!!


At the rifle matches and training courses, you get bullet casings rained on you at times. Just concentrate and block all that out. What comes out of the casings can hurt you, the spent casing is just that, although a bit on the hotter side, nothing to worry about.