I was at the range with a buddy today, when out the corner of my eye I saw his Kimber 1911 jump out of his hands.
He must have double charged his 45acp round. The explosion blew out the lower end of the case (there was a big hole in the side of the case itself), it blew the primer out of the case, knocked the extractor off the slide and had so much force going down into the grip portion of the gun that it broke/split both the left and right wooden Kimber grips into 4 big pieces. As the grips blew up, it blew his hands off the gun and sent it tumbling into his lap.
He got away with only a small scrape on his nose and upper cheek. Neither of us were wearing safety glasses, I always say I will, but seldom do. That will change.
I posted this as a reminder to all of us to be extra careful when we load bullets. We have the potential not only to hurt our selves, but we can also injure those close to us when we're shooting.
I've never liked wearing glasses of any kind, that's a real stupid reason not to wear safety glasses when I'm shooting. I hope this will sway a few of you that had the same bad practice I had ~~ wear safety glasses when ever you shoot!!!
OK, I'm finished preaching........................
Shoot safe, Shoot straight and have fun~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He must have double charged his 45acp round. The explosion blew out the lower end of the case (there was a big hole in the side of the case itself), it blew the primer out of the case, knocked the extractor off the slide and had so much force going down into the grip portion of the gun that it broke/split both the left and right wooden Kimber grips into 4 big pieces. As the grips blew up, it blew his hands off the gun and sent it tumbling into his lap.
He got away with only a small scrape on his nose and upper cheek. Neither of us were wearing safety glasses, I always say I will, but seldom do. That will change.
I posted this as a reminder to all of us to be extra careful when we load bullets. We have the potential not only to hurt our selves, but we can also injure those close to us when we're shooting.
I've never liked wearing glasses of any kind, that's a real stupid reason not to wear safety glasses when I'm shooting. I hope this will sway a few of you that had the same bad practice I had ~~ wear safety glasses when ever you shoot!!!
OK, I'm finished preaching........................
Shoot safe, Shoot straight and have fun~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~