Who here has been injured while training or shooting?

[M1911a1lvr]

Okay so here is an update on my incident with the kid who shot me. Just last week he attended a firearms safety class that a friend of mine taught, I was AI for his course on basic firearms safety. Well that kid showed up, and we got a bit nervous. But they same rules applied to this class as in mine. Well this time no one got shot, the kid took down some good notes and really payed attention to what we were saying. The kid even walked up to me during the class and asked a lot of questions, Mostly about CCW and the laws of VT. I told him that i didn't think that he was at a point in his maturity and gun handling skills to consider CCW. He took it in stride and continued with the course. When we went to the shooting portion, we kept a very close eye on him. He has improved by at least 500% in his safety and awareness of others and his muzzle control. He followed instructions to the letter, so i asked him what was up. He smiled at me and said this to me. " I really learned from my mistake, I have a much better attitude and respect for safety and for firearms. Thanks for  helping me understand."

  I think that is the best apology that i have ever been given, this kid has really grown up in the last couple of months. So my buddy and i took him and some of the other students to dinner after the class. He will be joining us for our Tactical Rifle 1 and Defensive Pistol 1 class next month. He leaves for USA basic at Ft Leonard Wood at the end of April. He is going to be an MP.

[THE NORSEMAN]

EXCELLENT!! Sorry you had to take incoming fire to get him where he is though.

[M1911a1lvr]

EXCELLENT!! Sorry you had to take incoming fire to get him where he is though.

   Yeah tell me about it. At least we didn't loose a shooter over it in more ways then one.

[sohmdaddy]

During a basic pistol class one of the angled-down 8 inch steel plate targets worked its way up to flat with the shooter. I fired at the plate and was rewarded with a loud 'ping' and a stinging slap to the left knee. I calmly decocked and holstered my weapon and took a step back off the firing line to see what happened. Slight bleeding for a minute or two, just sheared a few layers of skin off the top. One of the instructors, after I showed him the perpendicular plate shot the lower edge of the plate, knocking it back to the right angle.


At a different range, a few years later, my wife and I went to shoot her new revolver. This range had set up plates and hanging and spinner steel targets starting at about 25-30 yards out. As we walk toward the 10 yard end of the range, we pass a gun shooting at a steel spinner 25 yds out. He shoots as we pass him, and my wife gets whacked on the shoulder.   

I don't like to see her upset and in pain, but there was no damage and I try to calm her down. I also notice that all the steel targets are not angled down, but are facing flat to the shooters. We are ok at the far end of the range.

While I'm shooting, she's annoyed and rapidly getting bored, so she goes to get the shop vac to clean up our brass. She heads to middle of the line, where some guys are shooting AR's at hanging steel strips set out about 30 yards.

On her way back, she takes a hit in her calf, and this does cause some damage. She is a little nervous around guns to begin with, and now she's really pissed and upset, asking if we can just go, she doesn't like it here, guns are stupid, let's just leave, etc. . .

I'm pretty annoyed too, so we pack up and go to the car. In the car, I realize that there is a chunk of lead stuck just under the skin, so we pull it out with some swiss army tweezers.

I was annoyed that they used steel targets that didn't angle down, and that the range would allow people to hit those hanging targets with such a light weight, zippy round that wouldn't change the angle of the plate on impact. And at the relatively short distance of 30 yards.

I don't think we've been to that range since.