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Monday, April 04, 2011
Fickleness too
11 comments:
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B....... said...
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If you haven't already, you will not regret tuning in to the Cooking Channel's Laura Calder - French Food At Home. She does some good recipes too......
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4/4/11, 11:30 AM
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Anonymous said...
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That rubbed me raw from the beginning. That and all the ultra safety preaching. I never wore safety glasses to shoot until I went to an indoor range five years ago. What's going to fly into your eyes? Hell, I remember shooting on the rifle range without earplugs.
Casca -
4/4/11, 12:01 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Casca - I used to shoot an S&W Mod 29 at long range pistol matches. One of the gun's weaknesses was that the cylinder would get out of time and the crane would spring a bit after a steady diet of max power loads, which was the most accurate load in my gun and also required to do well in that competition with that gun.
While practicing one day, I sensed a warmness on my neck. I found my neck was covered with blood from the hole through my ear. The out of time gun was shaving lead, and a shaving had riccocheted off the forcing cone, followed the cylinder flute and holed my ear.
Could just as well have hit my eye.
Another time shooting a .270, a fragment riccocheted off a rock in the dirt berm I was shooting into and smacked my thigh hard enough to raise a golf ball sized welt and blood blister. I too shot through the military without ear and eye protection in the 60's, but I did lose some hearing and luckily never saw an eye injury.
IMHO, eye/ear protection is cheap insurance.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
4/4/11, 12:24 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Same here, I fired 12 billion rounds in the US Army with no ear plugs, and no goggles. Course I can't here crap now ...
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4/4/11, 1:09 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I'm looking forward to the quiet.
Casca -
4/4/11, 1:17 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The silence is why men like oral sex.......
Tim -
4/4/11, 1:38 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Actually in a recent episode where Will was trying to see how hot an M-16 gets under rapid fire, a primer cooked off prior to the bolt closing and it shot backwards into his safety glasses. First time I've ever seen anything like that though.
Trevor -
4/4/11, 7:02 PM
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Steve Pierson said...
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Tim - I'm going to quote you on that. That's the chuckle of the day.
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4/4/11, 9:20 PM
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Helly said...
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Course I can't here crap now …
Revealing!!!
Though I can't fathom how your ears might affect your digestion. -
4/5/11, 12:39 AM
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David said...
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I was running some of my Dad's reloads through my 1911A1 last year when one of the rounds went Kaboom. The mag shot out of the gun, the wooden grip on the right side split in two and a brass shard from the base of the cartridge embedded itself in my eye protection - dead center in the middle of the lens. I showed the glasses to my eye doctor (also a shooter) a few weeks later. When he pulled the shard out of the lens his verdict was that the shard would have easily penetrated completely through my cornea.
I grew up shooting outdoors without eye or ear protection. Several times I had powder residue blown back into my eyes, but it was never enough to make me start wearing glasses. I just started using them a few years ago. I will never shoot without them again. My kids will never be allowed to shoot without them. -
4/5/11, 2:42 AM
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DougM said...
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I've been hit in the glasses a number of times. Used to wear just regular prescription lenses (polycarbonate, though) until a student's ejected case managed to land between my eyebrow and frame (hot! hot! hot!). Now, I wear prescription wrap-arounds — expensive, but really good for motorcyclin', too. A twofer!
Oh, ever wonder why a drill sergeant yells to recruits, "Louder! I caaaaan't hearrr you!?" -
4/5/11, 6:16 PM
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