BASS Report post Posted April 6, 2012 Because of a knee injury I've been sitting at home for the past six months with limited activity. Today a co-worker and friend wanted to go shooting. I wasn't interested in the AR or other rifles and we shot skeet this morning at Ben Avery so no shotguns. I decided to take my Kentucky Rifle Repop for a little unconventional fun. I shot it about ten times, then on a shot showing my buddy how to load and shoot it, I had a cap that just exploded on the shot. Not only split and detonated, this thing GRENADED! I hold my rifle with my support hand almost all the way forward, a good two foot from the lock, and elbows held down close to the body. As soon as I shot, I felt sharp pains in my middle finger on my support hand, my cheek, and my left arm. I noticed I had a scratch on my face, my middle finger was bleeding, and I had a small hole in my CWT shirt. I didn't worry about it until I got home, went to take a shower and found this.... That's about 1/16" X 1/8" piece of the cap that is embedded under my skin on my left arm! It went through the doubled up shirt (had the sleeves rolled up a bit) and still had enough power to get all the way under the skin. A similar unfired cap for comparison. The scratch on my face also turned out to be a small piece of the cap in my skin just below where my sunglasses sat. Anyone who's been around guns for a long time take short cuts. We all do it, and know it. I don't wear glasses when I hunt even though my light green eyes get "arc eye" if I don't wear sunglasses during the day but I deal with it. I also don't wear ear protection while hunting, or during the shot. I can tell you from now on I will be wearing all the protection I can while shooting from now on. I had this problem with the musket sized caps that would leave metal flakes in my trigger hand, so I went back to the smaller caps because they didn't seem to detonate into small fragments. Guess I was wrong on that one! Be safe out there! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues79 Report post Posted April 6, 2012 Crap. That's crazy! Glad you're OK! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
