- Feb 4, 2013
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I'm pretty sure I related this one elsewhere in these forums...
Many years ago while I was routinely attending run/gun shoots and participating in outdoor shoot-house events with a couple local/county swat teams stationed in Georgia; I went up on the cat-walk to watch the others. This was a customary practice back then, so after you went through the house, it was ok for participants to climb up and stand on the cat-walk with the RSO and look down on others while they did the same drills/clearing/etc. One time I caught a piece of bullet splatter that hit steel and bounced back and up, hitting me in the forehead. It was a pretty solid 'thwack!' but only a scratch. I always wear safety glasses now, especially when anyone is shooting steel.
Back in the 90s they had a freak mishap at a USPSA match. Jacket from a bullet splashed off of steel, went behind the line, hit a kid, and killed him. Sliced an artery.