My 'What the ...?' moment for the day...

At least you were just shooting medium caliber pennies, and not large caliber quarters or magnum caliber half dollars. That could've been really messy. By the way, what's that little piece of lead in your hand for? Size comparison?

Those small caliber dimes really zing, and can hurt too!

Now, we've got some really cheap & lame jokes, harhar. Penny for your thoughts?

Ok, I'll quit now.... :p
 
I've never encountered steel coming back at me, but I always have glasses on anyway. Without my glasses I probably could not tell which direction I should be shooting. I also wear a baseball cap, but that's just to protect myself from shell casings. And more recently I started making sure that I button up my shirt all the way to the top button after a 40S&W case went down the front of my open shirt and burned me slightly on the chest. Its enough to make me want to stick to only shooting revolvers.
 
I posted about this before but worth another...I guess.

Brother had my 38 'airweight' shooting JRN into some paper target having railroad ties for backstop. Don't remember the distance but thinkin it was about 5-7yds.
He fired and immediately grabbed his throat.
Projectile came straight back hitting him square in the adams-apple.

Luckily did not break the skin but sure put a nice whelp on him.

Surprisingly, the projectile was flattened a bit but still intact.
Upon further inspection of the railroad tie, they found a piece of flat steel embedded about 1/4" just under the wood surface.

Thanks OP for the reminder.
 
Shooting at steel from about 15 yards... the jacket from my 45acp ball came back and chewed up my right forearm a little bit.

Dont shoot at 1/8" thick sheetmetal thats dinged up and rippled. Weird stuff can happen.
 
I had a fragment off steel slit my chin open. Yuk. Another time, a little lead snow flake particle landed on my tongue while I was talking behind the line - :eek:

I've seen a rifle round from across the range come back and crack someone hard in the noggin. Another bounced off the tin roof of the sun shade.

As far as eye protection - I've decided always to wear glasses - no lasik or corrected cataract implants so I don't have to wear them. I was mowing the lawn and a rock I never saw in the grass socked me hard in the mouth.
 
I once had a piece of 9mm brass eject from my P-95, bounce of the roof of the range and come down and sit atop my classes. Burned liked the dickens.
 
Ricochets are crazy things. I have a buddy that had a shooting range on his property that was a small valley. It had to be a good 50 feet down if it wasn't 75. You could shoot out to 1500 yards. A ricochet went back up and over the other side and hit someone miles away in a farm. They weren't seriously hurt, but hurt. It was an odd caliber (I don't remember which), so it was tracked to him. The compromise decision was that if he agreed to never shoot there again he wouldn't get sued. Bummer, that was a fun range to shoot belt feds at.
 
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