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Polycarb lenses saved my sight also. I was at the range firing "factory reloads" through my Glock 19. I had loaded my mags, put on my eyes and ears, ran my target down range, and commenced firing. On the third round, my weapon blew apart in my hands. A double charge blew the case-head off. The blast went down throught the mag well, blowing the follower, spring, mag base-plate, and remaining 14 rounds out the bottom of the mag well, and into my left hand. The case-head and other brass fragments hit my eye protection directly over my left eye, and embedded in the lens. I set the weapon down, took a quick inventory of my digits, and picked up the mag parts. After re-assembly, the G-19 was fine.
I've spent many years studying (informally) terminal ballistics. On one occasion I was shooting various thicknesses of aluminum with various projectiles. I had set a block of 3'' (three inch) aluminum about the size of a brick 100 meters down range. I fired a nice hot 150gr 300 Win Mag at the aluminum block. The second I fired, the core of the projectile returned and struck me dead-center in the forehead with enough force to knock me on my ass and break the skin. For a second or two, I thought I was seriously wounded, but as no fountain of blood was shooting out of my head, I decided I was OK. The bullet core had landed on my bench, right next to my rifle.
My advice: Never shoot at targets that are harder than your projectiles without full PPE.
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill
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