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sorry dont know the thread, but did you see the episode mythbusterts did on it?

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No, but I'm betting they did that episode after reading the thread on here..

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No, but I'm betting they did that episode after reading the thread on here..

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I'm about 99% sure it was a member here that did it...



Gene

An email I recieved today:





A St. Louis, Missouri guy on my AR-15 forum had a bad  accident with


his S&W 460XVR Magnum yesterday. He was shooting with a two handed
hold and got his left thumb up near the lower front of the cylinder. The


normal (powerful) gasses blowing out at the barrel/cylinder gap ripped the


top of his left thumb off. I've added some of his posts &some pics.
No joke, about 1/2 of my left thumb is gone ... what's left is a


friggin mess.It's pretty hard to  type, and I'm only posting because you never


know, it


might save somebody else  a thumb. I was using a 2-handed grip, fired


off


a Cor-Bon DPX .460  and the blast came violently out the side of the


 gun.At first my thumb was so  covered in blood that I couldn't see how bad


it was ... and I was full of  adrenaline and felt no pain. And honestly


it looked really bad, my whole hand  was covered in blood and it was


kinda gushing.


The blown-off thumb was on my  support hand. I'll re-create the grip


tomorrow to see where my thumb was, but  it's not like I didn't


already


know not to get any body part near the cylinder  gap. And even if I


totally screwed up and did, taking my thumb clean off seems  a bit


excessive?


Just be careful with those 460's.  That case operates at such high


pressure, it's just asking for  trouble.


BTW, I bought my 460 new and had exactly 12 rounds through it.  Info


about


the gun, it's a full-size 460 with the 8 3/4' barrel and factory


installed compensator. It's one of the Whitetails Unlimited models.


Ammo  was  200gr Cor-Bon DPX.


The gun only had 12 or 13 rounds of the Cor-Bon  through it, and 10


.45 Long Colt rounds through it. So it was essentially  still brand new.


Saw a hand specialist while there  today. Lots of ways to try and save


what's left, but first I just have to hope  it doesn't get infected in


the


next few days ... then surgery early next  week.


The hand specialist I spent a few  hours with last night said that in


gunshot wounds there is always a lot more  damage than is first


visible


... same with things like fireworks going off in  your hand. A lot


more


flesh around the wound is dead, and will rot and fall  off over the


next couple days. That's why it's so important to keep clean, and  that's


also why they can't do surgery now. If they wrapped new skin over dead


 skin it would just puss out, possibly turn gang-green, and they'd have to start


all over again.

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I'm about 99% sure it was a member here that did it...

Gene

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It was, there is a thread in the archives if you dig deep enough. I forget what I searched for. The pictures are gone from the thread though, he posted them later in the thread.

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I'm about 99% sure it was a member here that did it...



Gene

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found it


http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=664580

 

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Thanks guys. I was relaying the story to a friend, but forgot which pistol it was.

Too bad the pics are gone from the thread.


Appreciate the help,


Gene