1. You don’t have to tell me. I picked up a piece of copper jacket in the gut, I had to spend several hours in the ER to remove it.

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2. Thanks for the lesson.

   I was at an indoor pin shoot and a shooter was hit with a piece of brass from the person next to him. I didn’t figure out the crescent-shaped cut until months later, though. I was watching a YouTube video in slow motion. A shell was flung sideways by the slide on its way forward. It was the camera that was hit in the video. Quite unusual.

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3. I had a piece of bullet splatter from steel plate at a USPSA match knock the glasses off my face.

   Would have taken my eye out.

   Not just are my glasses Z87+ rated but DOJ ballistic rated.

   Also, that stage designer got a solid ass chewing for having a steel plate at 170 degrees.

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   1. Ok, I’ll bite: how should the plate be set instead?

      Is this a case of the wrong kind of steel? I remember reading literature of a steel target purveyor who makes a big deal about the need for using hard steel, not mild steel since pieces fly off when you hit those.

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4. Had a buddy who kept insisting that his prescription eyeglasses were more than enough to be safe. Right up until a bit of brass hit him in about the same place as the guy in the picture. Luckily, it did little more than leave a scratch, but he now wears safety glasses over his prescription glasses.

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   1. I don’t understand the point. If debris hits your face, in a part of the face not covered by glasses, the type of glasses you wear is irrelevant. It becomes relevant only if the lens is struck, and glasses of type A stay intact in that case while glasses of type B break and put pieces into your eyeball.

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