Posted: 3/11/2007 12:41:34 PM EDT
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I just smashed my finger in my BHP. I was doing a detail strip, and while pulling out the pin that holds the sear in, I forgot to hold the hammer back. When the pin came out, the hammer came down on my thumb. The nail has a nice blood blister forming and my thumb is hurtin' like a sonofagun. So what are your gun related injuries? |
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The first auto I ever handled was a 92fs. I was screwing around with it as my Dad was buying the gun, and somehow the slide closed on the meat on the underside of my finger. A portion of the slide actually went in one side and out the other. To say I was in pain was an understatement, but I had trouble making a noise. Finally, the salesman noticed and helped me open up the slide and extract my finger. |
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While unscrewing Mosin Nagant and Mauser bolts(where you have to press the firing pin into a block of wood and unscrew it) I have been known to pinch myself a couple times. I also gouged/sliced my thumb while loading some stripper clipped 8mm Yugo ammo in my M24/47. |
I once got my thumb stuck in my 1911. I had the slide locked back, and was checking something inside it, when I acidentally tripped the slide release.  I also found that with one thumb trapped inside the gun, it was hard to get a grip on it and pull the slide back at the same time. I didn't get a cut or a serious bruise or anything, but I sure felt foolish. 
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Not me personally, but I once witnessed my father get the web of his hand between forefinger and thumb caught when the bolt slammned home on a Browning Auto 5 12 ga. shotgun. That part of the web got nipped off cleanly. Several months later when it was time to go to the range again, I pulled the bolt back and a small flap of dead skin fell out. CJ |
That's why you should only use a Glock disassembly tool. 
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| Bad reload. Case seperated in the chamber of one of the old Tanfaglio TZ-75's with the out of spec cam on the barrel that caused it to unlock prematurely. Blew the wood handgrips out, and put a nice tiny piece of brass in my forehead. My hands stung a little but, but no burns or shrapnel in my hands. Still have a red bump on my forehead from the incident, and that was 19 or 20 years ago. Barrel was fine, pistol was fine. Barrel was brought into spec, and she's still runnin. |
You can buff that out.
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| Bad reload. Case seperated in the chamber of one of the old Tanfaglio TZ-75's with the out of spec cam on the barrel that caused it to unlock prematurely. Blew the wood handgrips out, and put a nice tiny piece of brass in my forehead. My hands stung a little but, but no burns or shrapnel in my hands. Still have a red bump on my forehead from the incident, and that was 19 or 20 years ago. Barrel was fine, pistol was fine. Barrel was brought into spec, and she's still runnin. |
Damn...thats rough. I thought of another one. When disasembling an SKS, I remembered the cleaning kit in the butt. When I slipped my finger through the trap door, the warning from the US Army SKS manual came to mind..."The cleaning kit is spring loaded..." and just then the cleaning kit spring forward and pinched my finger painfully between the stock cavity and the cleaning kit. Never made that mistake again. I've hit myself with the recoil guide plug from a 1911, like so many others. I can report that I have not gotten M1 thumb yet. |
I had my finger eaten a few times by that |
| While shooting skunks at night with the G20, loaded with 135 gr. Double Tap, I crossed up my thumbs and had the left one behind the slide. The bottom edge of the slide went across the top of the thumb knuckle. Lost a dime size piece of meat. I'll be damned if I hunt from a truck while drunk again. |
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I heard stories of a guy "chambering" a finger in an M2HB. Took a drive spring from a 240B to the chest by the asshat sitting next to me. Dumbass didn't make sure the bolt was forward before taking off the buttstock/buffer assembly, and hit the one in a million odds that the spring would be far enough out of its recess in the reciever to fly out. |
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Garand thumb... It *really* freakin' hurt! Got the hell pinched out of my hand by my P22 (the serrations caught my hand), and cut me pretty good. Work Related: I dropped an M61A1 on my ankle once. I have been hit with the loader for one too (whoever invented the LALS needs to die!) Busted up my hand pretty good on the entrance unit. Saftey wire on the access unit really isn't safe... |
In 1992 I was at the .50 cal range at Ft Benning. At that time I had a large wart on the outer side of my right hand pinkie finger. Went to |
 All I've had to deal with, pain wise, is having to put the M1911's recoil plug back into place. No bleeding but it did hurt my thumbs. The bushing wrench is your friend!
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