Flashback

[Barrie]

I was on the range on Thursday night which is in the basement of our club. We were firing and all of a sudden I seen a white flash and felt something hit me in the rightside of my nose. It cut me pretty good and it bled pretty good as well. Have a cut about 1" long in total. I was firing my model 46 with a 7-3/8 barrel which I just set down and backed away from at the time. Dam it smarted quite well for such a small cut. This is a 60 ft indoor range and I was at station no.1 against the block wall when it happened but got me on the opposite side of the nose. The gun is fine and survived better then my nose did. Of course stronger material aye.

 

[1911bphil]

What happened?

 

[kcode]

Did you find out what actually hit you?

 

[Barrie]

No but I suspect it may have been a empty casing as there's always lots of them laying around my stand until the end of the night. My 46 generally spits the casings in a downward direction so this is a puzzler to me as I have been hit many times over the years before but never like this and so hard as well. Usually they might sting a little but not make you see white flashs or hurt like this one did let alone draw blood. Either that or if it could have been a ricochot off of the blackstop which is heavy steel of course. The nose is healing real well but still slightly tender.