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Posted: 6/9/2009 10:04:49 AM EDT

Whenever I get a new semi-auto I always - in addition to eye and ear protection - wear a baseball cap pulled waaaay down over my forehead. I've been caught by too many cases in the forehead to forget it.

Well, apparently it's been too long since I gotten pegged because I got to the range and as I was putting my eyes and ears on I realized, "shit, I forgot my hat."

Obviously there was no way I was cancelling my new gun's maiden voyage on account of a forgotten hat!

But, as it turns out, there was a price to be paid! Hell, I've been hit many times in the forehead by flying brass from new guns, but this one was a doozy! When it hit I knew it would draw blood but I still had 50 rounds to put through her before I was done so I finished up. The blood had rolled down my face and into my beard...

Anyway, ya gotta love new semi-autos that need a little tuning!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:06:17 AM EDT

[#1]

Hm, i've never had that problem.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:07:37 AM EDT

[#2]

Looks like grape jam.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:08:17 AM EDT

[#3]

What happened to the rest of your face?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:08:53 AM EDT

[#4]

Ouch.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:09:23 AM EDT

[#5]

Stop limpwristing it.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:09:33 AM EDT

[#6]

I get that once in awhile but they just bounce off no blood involved

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:10:07 AM EDT

[#7]

Smack dab in the center !

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:10:24 AM EDT

[#8]

Fuck, you could be on your last round, miss, and have the case hit the BG!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:10:26 AM EDT

[#9]

BOOM - Headshot!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:10:27 AM EDT

[#10]

Do you shoot gangsta style?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:11:05 AM EDT

[#11]

Chix will dig that.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:11:10 AM EDT

[#12]

ROFL....that made my day!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:11:46 AM EDT

[#13]

Looks like a belt buckle wound.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:13:00 AM EDT

[#14]

So, now you can say you survived a .45 golden saber to the forehead.

Good thing it wasn't a 9mm.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:14:11 AM EDT

[#15]

Well, I've done the hot brass dance a few times, but I've never drawn blood like that.

I am not sure if that's a good omen or not...

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:15:11 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Stop limpwristing it.

This!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:15:45 AM EDT

[#17]

my Glocks don't do that

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:15:52 AM EDT

[#18]

I've never had a Glock do that...

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:16:00 AM EDT

[#19]

DAYUM!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:17:31 AM EDT

[#20]

Never had a handgun do that. My M1 carbine does it constantly though....

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:17:35 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
my Glocks don't do that

Lol no, your glock showers the guy in the spot next to you.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:17:42 AM EDT

[#22]

Wow, I want to know what they're using for an exractor. I think the Colt engineers have stumbled onto something here....

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:18:17 AM EDT

[#23]

I think you're doing it wrong.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:18:18 AM EDT

[#24]

so,,

truth told

what you do to piss her off?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:18:26 AM EDT

[#25]

Weird, a buddy did the something similar (not nearly as damaging) using my kimber .45 for the first time. I have shot 600 rounds with it and never once got hit with a round.

Maybe it has something to do with shooting style.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:18:49 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Stop limpwristing it.

This!

Yeah, I knew someone would chime in with that. That's likely what I would say as well, but thse little 1911s really spit the brass every which way. My wrists are pretty tight. I, ummmm, won't disclose my age-old technique for keeping them strong.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:19:40 AM EDT

[#27]

"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!"

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:20:59 AM EDT

[#28]

Never had that happen.
Very nice Pistol

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:21:10 AM EDT

[#29]

I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:21:44 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
my Glocks don't do that

I've owned a G17, G19, G20, G21, G22, G23, G26, G27, and two G30s and not a single case ever hit me.

This gun and a S&W 1911 have been the biggest offenders. The S&W grew out of it as I shot it more and more. Hopefully this little Colt will be the same way.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:23:22 AM EDT

[#31]

Did you have to pay extra for that?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:23:42 AM EDT

[#32]

thanks for the afternoon laugh!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:24:00 AM EDT

[#33]

Hell, you're famous...you have your face on a t-shirt!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:27:39 AM EDT

[#34]

lol now go into a kwiki mart and see if the clerk comments on your "bindi"

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:29:01 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

Oh, Piggy, that's part of the fun with a new 1911. When you shoot it, it's kind of a fear/respect mixture.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:33:28 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

That's no fun, you gotta break in a 1911 just like you break in a new girlfriend, it's the fun part....

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:34:43 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Stop limpwristing it.

This!

Yeah, I knew someone would chime in with that. That's likely what I would say as well, but thse little 1911s really spit the brass every which way. My wrists are pretty tight. I, ummmm, won't disclose my age-old technique for keeping them strong.

Typing on the internet?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:34:50 AM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:36:12 AM EDT

[#39]

I have never heard of or seen anything like that. I have been hit in the head with cases, but never any pressure behind them. Weird. Lefty, shooting one handed, maybe even a short left arm or something? Wild. totally wild.

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:37:25 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

That's no fun, you gotta break in a 1911 just like you break in a new girlfriend, it's the fun part....

I want a shirt that looks just like your avatar. That is simply...cool!

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:38:09 AM EDT

[#41]

XMM, are you left handed?

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:40:49 AM EDT

[#42]

NONE of my pistols EVER did that to me.....You need to have a talk with your pistol bud.

Oh Wait ..... I see what happened there ... You were shooting it 'gangsta style' Werent you ???

Posted: 6/9/2009 10:46:13 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

That's no fun, you gotta break in a 1911 just like you break in a new girlfriend, it's the fun part....

Yea, it's loads of fun spending a hundred bucks in ammo, dealing with FTFs, FTE's and FTRTBs, having every idiot at the range offering advice, just to find the gun won't work right even after a break in, then spend a couple of hundred having it tuned, then spend another hundred bucks in ammo dealing with the above mentioned failures, then spending $50 to return it to the factory, finding out it still has the same problems, then selling it at a $200 loss to a buddy who now hates me cause I sold him a gun that doesn't work right, despite telling him at the time it didn't work right. But of course he's a 1911 fanatic and was sure I was just limp wristing it.

Yep, loads of fun. I've done that with the last 2 1911's I've bought, and no, they weren't Taurus's or RI's, one was a Colt and one was Kimber. I'll leave that fun to the folks that crave it, it just annoys me.

I LOVE good working 1911's, but for me there's a huge gap between loving one and actually owning one.

Posted: 6/9/2009 11:56:04 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I've gotten rid of guns that can't be tuned not to hit me in the face with brass. Good looking gun, but if first round takes an eye out in a defensive situation it's not worth having. Find a 1911 smith that can tune the ejector.

And no, I don't love semi's that need a little tuning, which is probably the reason the only 1911 that I still own is the one my Father carried in WWII. I hate having to fiddle with new guns to get them to work right. That's the factory's job. Used guns are another matter, but I expect new guns to work properly out of the box.

That's no fun, you gotta break in a 1911 just like you break in a new girlfriend, it's the fun part....

Yea, it's loads of fun spending a hundred bucks in ammo, dealing with FTFs, FTE's and FTRTBs, having every idiot at the range offering advice, just to find the gun won't work right even after a break in, then spend a couple of hundred having it tuned, then spend another hundred bucks in ammo dealing with the above mentioned failures, then spending $50 to return it to the factory, finding out it still has the same problems, then selling it at a $200 loss to a buddy who now hates me cause I sold him a gun that doesn't work right, despite telling him at the time it didn't work right. But of course he's a 1911 fanatic and was sure I was just limp wristing it.

Yep, loads of fun. I've done that with the last 2 1911's I've bought, and no, they weren't Taurus's or RI's, one was a Colt and one was Kimber. I'll leave that fun to the folks that crave it, it just annoys me.

I LOVE good working 1911's, but for me there's a huge gap between loving one and actually owning one.

LOL, Pig, I love your posts. I read you all the time over in the Handguns and Ammo rooms. Honestly, if I were forced to bet on your opinions as far as this thread goes, I would have LOST big.

I'd have pegged you as a you-gotta-WORK-for-the-perfect-gun type of fella.

You do know your shit, though, and I agree with at least 90% of your posts.

Posted: 6/9/2009 11:56:55 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
XMM, are you left handed?

Nope, I'm a righty. I can't even wave with my left hand.

Posted: 6/9/2009 11:57:53 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Whenever I get a new semi-auto I always - in addition to eye and ear protection - wear a baseball cap pulled waaaay down over my forehead. I've been caught by too many cases in the forehead to forget it.

Well, apparently it's been too long since I gotten pegged because I got to the range and as I was putting my eyes and ears on I realized, "shit, I forgot my hat."

Obviously there was no way I was cancelling my new Colt Night Defender's maiden voyage on account of a forgotten hat!

But, as it turns out, there was a price to be paid! Hell, I've been hit many times in the forehead by flying brass from new guns, but this one was a doozy! When it hit I knew it would draw blood but I still had 50 rounds to put through her before I was done so I finished up. The blood had rolled down my face and into my beard...

Anyway, ya gotta love new semi-autos that need a little tuning!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i73/tjhands/Christmas2008022.jpg

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i73/tjhands/Christmas2008025.jpg

Always assumed you looked like Thomas Magnum.

Posted: 6/9/2009 12:00:03 PM EDT

[#47]

I've had that happen a few times with my Les Baer. It hits me square in the forehead on the last round of a mag about 50% of the time. Only once have it had it leave a mark, a nice semi-circle on my forehead.