Anybody use supplemental oxygen while shooting?

[andyo5]

My pulmonolgist says that I should use supplemental oxygen when walking outdoors and during any significant activity.
I would assume that using oxygen while shooting would be a no-no. But I thought I'd find out whether anybody has experience or direct knowledge about this.
Thanks

 

[kenv1950]

Not sure about that.
Every time I see a oxygen in use sign it say keep away from open flame .
I have seen people with oxygen smoking a cigarette

 

[Skeet 028]

No reason to worry about it at all. Give each round a shot of O2...make 'em go faster! Seriously it's safe.

 

[da gimp]

I'm on Oxygen 24-7... generally set at 2 litres, since April of 2013. I've never had any problem using shoulder fired firearms or handguns.

 

[nicky4968]

There are ranges here that won't allow bottled oxygen.

I finally was able to get a portable generator. My insurance company wouldn't cover it, so I bought one off craigslist. Lot of money.

I haven't been to those ranges with the generator, but I don't think they would have any concerns as there is only one breath of oxygen stored at any one time.

 

[da gimp]

I have not fired a shoulder fired cap and ball or flintlock weapon since then though...On most modern cartridge weapons... you are not exposed to any flame or burning gas/powder. Though I guess there might be some exposure while using a rare/uncommon shoulder stocked cartridge revolver or shoulder stocked cap & ball revolver...

 

[Whitwabit]

shooting will not make the O2 you are breathing to explode .. what it will do is allow a flame to burn hotter if its applied directly to it .. something similar to a cutting torch when O2 is added but in much larger quantities .. or if you shot the O2 tank it would then explode possibly ..

I have seen a person lite a cigarette while using O2 .. no explosion ..

 

[Model 19 6"]

My partner in a skeet league had a bottle in a carrying case over his left shoulder. It never caused any problems.

 

[swsig]

Just to be on the safe side, don't shoot tracers.

 

[JohnZMI]

I'm also on oxygen therapy 24/7 (COPD), 2L oxygen/minute - have an Invacare Protecto2 V concentrator in the house, and another one in my garage office/shop. Also have an Inogen 3 battery-powered portable 4-pound shoulder-strap concentrator I take when I'm going to be gone more than a couple of hours. Oxygen concentrators don't store any oxygen - they take the air we breathe (which is 80% nitrogen and only 20% oxygen), strip out the 80% nitrogen, and produce 95%-pure breathing oxygen, and are TSA- and FAA-approved for flight.

No complaints from the range once they understood that the portable concentrator doesn't store pure oxygen - it just delivers it on demand.

 

[andyo5]

JohnZMI, Thanks for your reply. I am not on oxygen 24/7 yet. But when I am using it, it is usually 2 l/m to 3 l/m. I sometimes use it at the range as well, and they are not concerned about it. When I wrote my original post, I was an oxygen newbee. I also have an Inogen G3 and I love it.

 

[Daniel Howe]

I am on 3 liters and have never had a problem shooting.