Just a moment of being in a hurry to finish the install of a free-float tube on my Colt HBAR, resulted in an explosion scattering debris from 2 Dillon Large Primer tubes, holding 100 new primers each.
My dumb self has a vise on two tables. Only one has primer tubes hanging near the vice. Guess where I was standing?
Primer rack is belly-high. Vice is 6 inches higher. Colt is almost completed, in the big vice across the room, so to hurry up, the Dremel is used to cut the sling swivel off the front sight, and sand it down. The Float Tube has a sling swivel, already mounted. The tube won’t fit if I don’t cut the swivel off the front sight.
Swivel gets cut off in 10 seconds. Grinding the stubs down takes long enough, and produces mucho sparks. Two primer tubes do their jobs, since the primers blew straight up, and straight down, knocking 4 loaded tubes off the rack to the concrete floor. One is now missing a cotter pin, and one a Dillon plastic tip. All 4 have all, or 95% of good primers.
Shrapnel was embedded in 2 eight pound powder kegs that were stored below the primer tubes. Parts of the twisted, mangled aluminum tubes are on the floor.
The two tubes that blew, were shrapnel bombs. I had 7 pieces penetrate top of my left hand. Xray attached. Some are Anvils, others are the primer body. Plenty of blood. Sounded like a 10 gauge in my ear. LuckyI had polycarb safety glasses on, but I needed Kevlar gloves.
Wife responded. When I asked her to get my Clotting Agent out of my range bag emergency FA kit, she grabbed a chest seal kit and stuck it on my hand. It did stick well, stopping the blood flow from my punctures.
We will be attending a SheepDog Rescue class as soon as possible🤕
Doberman never woke up. He hears gunfire often.
Hand Surgeon in the works.
Would have taken 2 minutes to swap the AR to the little vise. I had the gas tube lined up, after fighting the tube alignment to the front sight, and didn’t stop to assess the danger.
Only things I did correctly, was wear eye protection and have an IFAK.
Dillon will see some of their handiwork. They worked to remove mass, or I may have received worse punctures, in more deadly places.
50 years of reloading, and I do this because I rushed a rifle accurizing job, and didn’t organize my workbench properly.
I hope this saves someone else a trip to the ER, or worse.
My dumb self has a vise on two tables. Only one has primer tubes hanging near the vice. Guess where I was standing?
Primer rack is belly-high. Vice is 6 inches higher. Colt is almost completed, in the big vice across the room, so to hurry up, the Dremel is used to cut the sling swivel off the front sight, and sand it down. The Float Tube has a sling swivel, already mounted. The tube won’t fit if I don’t cut the swivel off the front sight.
Swivel gets cut off in 10 seconds. Grinding the stubs down takes long enough, and produces mucho sparks. Two primer tubes do their jobs, since the primers blew straight up, and straight down, knocking 4 loaded tubes off the rack to the concrete floor. One is now missing a cotter pin, and one a Dillon plastic tip. All 4 have all, or 95% of good primers.
Shrapnel was embedded in 2 eight pound powder kegs that were stored below the primer tubes. Parts of the twisted, mangled aluminum tubes are on the floor.
The two tubes that blew, were shrapnel bombs. I had 7 pieces penetrate top of my left hand. Xray attached. Some are Anvils, others are the primer body. Plenty of blood. Sounded like a 10 gauge in my ear. LuckyI had polycarb safety glasses on, but I needed Kevlar gloves.
Wife responded. When I asked her to get my Clotting Agent out of my range bag emergency FA kit, she grabbed a chest seal kit and stuck it on my hand. It did stick well, stopping the blood flow from my punctures.
We will be attending a SheepDog Rescue class as soon as possible🤕
Doberman never woke up. He hears gunfire often.
Hand Surgeon in the works.
Would have taken 2 minutes to swap the AR to the little vise. I had the gas tube lined up, after fighting the tube alignment to the front sight, and didn’t stop to assess the danger.
Only things I did correctly, was wear eye protection and have an IFAK.
Dillon will see some of their handiwork. They worked to remove mass, or I may have received worse punctures, in more deadly places.
50 years of reloading, and I do this because I rushed a rifle accurizing job, and didn’t organize my workbench properly.
I hope this saves someone else a trip to the ER, or worse.
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