Amateur (?) gunsmith rechambers a single shot shotgun to .22 Hornet, very nearly thinks very hard about a firing pin:

I had a primer embed itself in my forehead for a month. That shit was awful to squeeze out.

Yeah, blackheads that big get you views on YouTube.

I had to watch on mute with captions because the guy loudly smacks his damn mouth between almost every sentence.

Neat vid otherwise.

My de facto glasses are prescription safety glasses.

I rarely use my standard eyeglasses.

Tagged for after work.

I’ll post a trauma photo when I get to work

Safety squint seems good enough for this.

My friend taught my to just use a magnet to pull stuff out of your eyes after the fact.

Magnets don’t always work

As promised…only a video

Ouch! I hope that was under full anesthesia. I had to have something scraped off the surface of my eyeball as a kid. Think he used cocaine drops to deaden the pain. Still hurt.

Majority of ocular surgeries are under local. Twilight sedation can also be used and anxiolytic meds are commonly used. I don’t ever recall general anesthesia on any patients. Our peds guy might have had to in severe trauma cases when other things were being repaired as well. I’ll have to ask him. We also don’t use narcotics afterwards. Level of post operative pain is a major indicator to complications

Magnets don't work unless you immediately and fully remove all particles. Anything that doesn't immediately get out turns to rust, which isn't magnetic, and will wreck your eye in short order.

Yeah, they can use Alcaine or whatever briefly while they're scraping, but it only lasts like 10 minutes, you can only do it a couple times in a day -  any more and it starts eating at your eyeball and causes blindness itself.

I had a piece of steel embed juust under my pupil while dremelling a loading gate for a .45LC 1860 conversion - I was wearing glasses, but it got the angle just right to jump under them.  Took 8 visits to grind all the rust ring out, they use an algerbrush for that, it's basically a little dremel and they freehand grind that shit out of your eyeball.




Second eye injury a few years later was installing a hammer and hammer spring (think AR style) into a receiver that had a deep hole it had to go into first, it all popped out and the hammer caught me right in the eye, giving me a nice new corneal abrasion.  I wasn't wearing glasses for that because it had never occurred to me to take that precaution with a simple spring loaded part.

These two cases are up there with the worst pain I've ever felt - it's constant, there's no relief until it heals other than a contact lens 'bandage' - and you'll be dripping goo into your eye every night for 6 months after so it doesn't heal into your eyelid and tear itself in the morning, which can turn into a permanent cycle if you let it happen enough.

Eyepro for everything. Full seal for anything the slightest bit iffy.   GWOT surplused so many great goggles there's no reason not to have a stack of them, ESS NVGs can be had for like $12, put 'em on when you're demeling and drill pressing and lathing and shooting new prototypes.

Do you practice S&M in your personal life as well, or just at work?  

It doesn’t pay as well

That thing and my wive’s “foreign body removal kit” were enough to scare me into being more serious about PPE.

Once managed to get a sliver of steel embedded in my eye while working on my car, intern used a hypodermic needle to get under it and lift it out.

ATGAT = all the gear, all the time!

I'm a firm believer.

I got a sizzling hot primer in my forearm once, and since I was bench shooting it was only a couple inches away from my eye.  It really cooked itself into my skin, the scar is a nice reminder to wear my safety glasses.

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Like this? Minus the Alger brush..

I had a rear sight fly off a gsg .22 1911 and hit my shooting glasses where my eye is. Really glad I was using them then.

When the Germans go cheap, they're cheaper than Jimenez.

Pulled a ricochet 22lr out of my Arm and a piece of a 308 took a chunk out of my neck.

Also have had three tiny metal fragments removed from my eye.

Always wear your eye pro.

Awww, damnit.  That was hard to watch.  I had to stop.  I'm gonna lay down for a minute.

This

Gun looks like fun, I'm glad he didn't get any serious injuries.