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I’m an RSO at an indoor range. I was working the line one day and a guy in one of our lanes stepped back from the bench looking at his arm and then started looking around urgently. I walked over to see what was the issue and I saw his face was white as a sheet. He had placed his gun on the bench and an ammo tray with exposed 9mm cartridges lay next to it with a hole and melted plastic. I asked him if everything was OK and he said he didn’t think so.

“I think something shot me”.

I confirmed he was OK and uninjured. There was really small cut below his wrist.

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I checked the line and there were only 6 of the 14 bays occupied, no one near him at all. I checked the bulletproof walls of the stall and there were no marks from stray rounds and everyone there were competent shooters - no mishandling of firearms or mischief. I called one of our other RSOs over and we tried to figure out what had happened.

My first thought was a squib that he didn’t notice and he accidentally fired another round behind it but after clearing the gun and examining the barrel that was ruled out, plus it would be odd to have an injury in that location on the arm from a barrel malfunction. We look a closer look at the bench and there was the remnants of an exploded casing on the bench. Looking at the ground we found the bullet, a perfect 9mm bullet with no strike marks. Then we realized what must have happened.

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The guy had his ammo still in the tray laying on the bench, projectile down-primer up. He had been shooting and the casings from his Glock 17 were ejecting, bouncing off the stall walls and landing on the floor… and bench. One of the casings hit the primer of one of the exposed rounds in the tray at just the right angle, speed and force to ignite it and the powder. The round shot through the plastic tray and shards from the casing cut him on the wrist, the bullet coming to rest on the floor.

Honestly, I couldn’t believe it but in talking to my Range Manager later he said that although very rare he had seen it happen a couple of times.

Lesson of the day: Keep your rounds in the box until you’re ready to reload. 

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Shooting .22's on an indoor range, lady near me ejected a mis-fired ,22LR.

When it hit the floor it popped and the case hit the fellow next position over, in the ankle.

He was wearing jeans and had his winter outdoor boots on, but there was a bit of brass stuck in the boot.

Weird. We were fairly certain if it was a delayed ignition, not from hitting the floor, since the batch we sold at the range had a couple of squibs and one I was shooting cleared the barrel and at 20 yards indoors, you could see the bullet in flight, dropping like a stone and something else behind it that flared partway down the range.

Bullet never made it to the backstop.

CIL/Dominion rep gave took away what we had remaining and gave us a new case from a different lot number. 

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