GAHUNTER60
Senior Member
...So I must be pretty stupid.
Today I went to the range to shoot my son's 1911, my personal Glock 20, and my daughter-in-law's Taurus PT 709 Slim in 9mm. I used a two-handed grip on the full-sized .45 ACP and shot great. Then did the same with the big 10mm, with the same good result. Then I picked up the little micro nine........
Using the same two-handed grip, I put a full magazine downrange. When the last shot was fired, I pressed the magazine release and proceeded to reload the one and only mag I had with me. That's when I noticed a little blood dripping off my left thumb knuckle.
"I wonder how that happened," I thought to myself, finally coming to the conclusion that I had skinned it when I was digging in my tote bag for ammo. So when I was through stuffing rounds in the little single-stack magazine, I chambered a round, took aim with the same two-handed grip (so I thought), and let one fly.
Yeowee!!!!
This time it became obvious why there was blood on my knuckle earlier, because, now, where there had been a slight scrape, there was a gash dang near to the bone -- and it hurt!
As blood rolled down my hand and onto the floor, all I could think about was how stupid I must look to the other shooters on the line, and how stupid I must actually be to allow myself to become victim of such a rookie mistake. I know better than to place my fingers anywhere close to a autoloader's slide. I should have known that my support hand was dangerously close to the slide from the earlier nick.
A doctor who happened to be shooting with his family had a look and said that even though the cut was deep, it was razor-blade thin, and that I could probably get along without stitches if I cleaned it up good with peroxide and bandaged it up tight. So I put a band-aid on it provided by the range master, packed up my stuff, and headed for the house -- where I soaked it in peroxide and bandaged it up with gauze and tape.
The moral of this story is keep your dang hand out of the way of your slide, especially on those cute little guns. Like little dogs, they bite surprisingly hard!
Today I went to the range to shoot my son's 1911, my personal Glock 20, and my daughter-in-law's Taurus PT 709 Slim in 9mm. I used a two-handed grip on the full-sized .45 ACP and shot great. Then did the same with the big 10mm, with the same good result. Then I picked up the little micro nine........
Using the same two-handed grip, I put a full magazine downrange. When the last shot was fired, I pressed the magazine release and proceeded to reload the one and only mag I had with me. That's when I noticed a little blood dripping off my left thumb knuckle.
"I wonder how that happened," I thought to myself, finally coming to the conclusion that I had skinned it when I was digging in my tote bag for ammo. So when I was through stuffing rounds in the little single-stack magazine, I chambered a round, took aim with the same two-handed grip (so I thought), and let one fly.
Yeowee!!!!
This time it became obvious why there was blood on my knuckle earlier, because, now, where there had been a slight scrape, there was a gash dang near to the bone -- and it hurt!
As blood rolled down my hand and onto the floor, all I could think about was how stupid I must look to the other shooters on the line, and how stupid I must actually be to allow myself to become victim of such a rookie mistake. I know better than to place my fingers anywhere close to a autoloader's slide. I should have known that my support hand was dangerously close to the slide from the earlier nick.
A doctor who happened to be shooting with his family had a look and said that even though the cut was deep, it was razor-blade thin, and that I could probably get along without stitches if I cleaned it up good with peroxide and bandaged it up tight. So I put a band-aid on it provided by the range master, packed up my stuff, and headed for the house -- where I soaked it in peroxide and bandaged it up with gauze and tape.
The moral of this story is keep your dang hand out of the way of your slide, especially on those cute little guns. Like little dogs, they bite surprisingly hard!
