| Author | Message | ||
     Fb1 |
I *think* I was shot with something this afternoon while riding my bike through the outskirts of Mount Airy, NC. I was in traffic, doing about 35 mph, and heard a loud "SNAP!" from my left, and a split second later I felt an intense burning sensation on my lower left thigh. The "SNAP!" I heard didn't sound like a gunshot, but it didn't sound like anything else familiar, either. Whatever it was, the sound seemed like it had considerable energy behind it. First order of business was not to get tangled up in traffic, then look down at my leg. There was no mark of any kind on my pants, but my thigh was on absolute fire. I found a place where I could pull over and discreetly pull down my pants. I've got a perfectly round wound about a 1/4-inch in diameter, angry red and purple in color. There was/is no surface bleeding or oozing, but it sure is nasty looking. This was a couple of hours ago now and it still stings, but isn't on fire any longer. Anybody got any ideas what would do that kind of damage to my leg, but not leave a mark on my pants? | ||
| Ourdee |
A whip. | ||
| Ourdee |
May have been a rock pinched between a tire and pavement, or a metal cord from a semi tire. I got hit in the foot a couple of years back by a rock on the interstate. felt like I broke my foot and hurt on and off for over 6 months. I was wearing my motorcycle boots thank goodness. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Last Friday I hit a golf ball OB and onto a neighboring street. Lifted pickup truck ran it over and it got stuck in the treads and fired it straight up in the air so high we lost sight of it--granted it was a "tough" sky. Cracked us up and made me feel better about losing that ball... I certainly wouldn't rule out a tire shooting out something. Something a 1/4 inch would be about the right size to get stuck in most tread patterns I would guess. (Message edited by fresnobuell on May 16, 2019) | ||
| Gregtonn |
I saw a cousin of mine hit in the cheek by a small stone that was fired at him when it was caught between the edge of a tire and the pavement. It took a couple of stitches to fix him up. G | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/15/kama la-harris-expanding-executive-order-promises-to-ba n-ar-15-imports/ Don't tell this grandstanding civil rights denier that few AR types are imported, that AKs are not imported ( thanks, Bush the Elder ) and both are almost all domestic production. America's most popular. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/15/pro- gun-control-steve-bullock-enters-democrat-race-202 0/ Shall not be infringed. | ||
| Rick_a |
I got stuck behind a gravel truck on the highway once. A good sized stone fell out quite predictably...which skimmed the surface of the pavement until it bounced and hit me directly in the center of my visor. It made me a believer in full faced helmets. | ||
| Rick_a |
Charter Arms now makes a lighweight 22LR snubbie in a non pastel color.  I'm either going to do the "Lite" version with wood grips (11oz) or the standard one with Pachmayr rubbers (19+oz). One would feel and handle like my Airweights and the other like my J Magnum. The former would make a better trainer and the latter a better shooter. I'm also going to get an inexpensive 9mm suppressor made by a now defunct company (Huntertown Arms). The local shop has a few of them. To use on my AR SBR I'd have to buy an adapter and make a fixed barrel spacer. I'd just have to be extra careful about alignment and on making sure it doesn't come loose in firing...as a repair would be impossible. I'll probably get a threaded barrel for the Glock. All of this of course is assuming that I start working full time again (currently coming up a bit short on hours) and catch up on bills...I recently took an unpaid vacation of some months. | ||
| Fb1 |
My impression at the time yesterday, for what it's worth, was that I'd been shot by something. Also, if you call my knee cap 12 o'clock, the impact on my thigh with whatever it was at about the 8 o'clock position, which would seem to preclude it having been something kicked up by a car or truck. Pellet pistol from a passing vehicle? It made me a believer in full faced helmets. +1 | ||
| Ourdee |
As far as the tire rock scenario, I was talking something squirted out sideways from between rubber and road. It could have been a home-made firework. A nice .22 pellet rifle can pass 1000 FPS and sound odd from the muzzle end. Especially if the valve and hammer bounce letting out excess propellant. Add in a poorly engineered can with an over-size exit hole an inch or more past the crown and the sound becomes confusing. There was someone in Rockford, Illinois years back shooting motorcycles. I know they shot one in the tank while it was moving. It was while I was living there. It was not me! I don't know if the law ever caught them. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Had a kid in my area a couple years ago, shooting at cars. Put out a few windows and tires, but didn't (thankfully) kill anyone before the LEOs got hold of him. Not exactly "beltway sniper" level...but on the twisty mountain roads around here? Take out a tire, and it's easy to leave the road before you can slow down. A "snap" followed by a fire-burn impact is likely a CO2 pellet - not enough to penetrate clothing or skin, but definitely leaves a hell of a welt. | ||
| Akbuell |
Some kind of really big stinging insect? | ||
| Mnscrounger |
When I was a new kid driver I was driving down the highway with a buddy, following a tractor trailer rig, ( probably too close). The rig picked up a softball sized rock in between the dual tires of the trailer. We watched it spin round two or three times before it let go, bounced off the underside of the trailer, rebounded off the highway, and then went straight up, higher than we could see through the windshield behind the trailer. We both crunched our shoulders, gritted our teeth and waited for the rock to come through the windshield. After what seemed a long time I saw it coming off another bounce, behind us in the rear view mirror. | ||
| Ourdee |
I've got a .22 pellet running 700 FPS. Load a Skenko pellet and it is faster than that.  | ||
| Fresnobuell |
COnsidering all the ambient noise, helmet & possible earplugs, I question whether you would hear a pellet gun that doesn't even have the power to break thru clothing. It's possible something was shot out of tire and ricocheted to hit you on the side of the thigh. | ||
| Ourdee |
My neighbors don't even know I'm shooting unless I'm using the steel targets. | ||
| Rick_a |
I have a spring-air pistol (Webley Tempest) that shoots 500FPS and is quite quiet. My son's 22 caliber Crossman CO2 gun is much louder. Same goes for rifles. My pneumatic rifle that shoots 800FPS is a lot louder than the spring-air rifle when using heavy for caliber lead pellets. It'll do 1100 or so with lightweight pellets which results in a supersonic crack (that is painful to the ears), but with heavier pellets at around 950FPS it's pretty quiet. | ||
| Ourdee |
The Crosman CO2 valve lends itself to some performance mods. And the gas passage can be smoothed out. Area before valve can be drilled to store more CO2 for the flow. Bigger valving helps. Two stage triggers and steel breaches. Breech risers and shrouded barrels. I used to get into hopping them up before the custom shop took a lot of what we were doing and started selling it after the guys at the factory start hanging out on our forum.... | ||
| Glitch |
 Just found out that my sign "If you can read this you're in range No Trespassing!" Is considered "intent" | ||
| Ourdee |
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| Fb1 |
COnsidering all the ambient noise, helmet & possible earplugs, I question whether you would hear a pellet gun that doesn't even have the power to break thru clothing. It's possible something was shot out of tire and ricocheted to hit you on the side of the thigh. Yeah, anything is possible. I heard "something" a nanosecond before I felt the bite, but I have no idea what I actually heard. The wound isn't angry or infected today (I've been alternating between hydrogen peroxide and neosporin since last night). It's tender to the touch, but is mostly a non-issue at this point. Life goes on. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Just found out that my sign "If you can read this you're in range No Trespassing!" Is considered "intent" to....protect your home and family? Not like you're going to shoot every person you see. But "intent", in a case like this, would be a good thing - keep people straight. Keep them from getting ideas. About your home, your property, and your family. It's called "deterrent", and our ridiculously liberal society could use a little bit of this in general. You can't do whatever you want - you don't get to choose your gender, you don't get to appropriate whatever you want (home, healthcare, college degrees, income) simply because you want them. You have to WORK for them. You have to EARN them. And...there's a good chance...you could FAIL. Call it "learning", and don't do it again. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." That tells me that *I* shalt protect mine goods, and mine wife. Because they art mine. Hypothetically, of course. | ||
| Ratbuell |
For your leg wound...maybe check with a nurse, or an ER, to see if they've ever seen a similar wound? Perhaps a lil forensics might help answer "WTF is this?".... | ||
| Ourdee |
R.D., Why do you beat your head on the wall? Oh, How oft I want to post But for dissemination on the internet I highlight and back space Then exit the thread I long for the days of old when a man could just state his honest opinion amongst friends without having to consider that a future busy body would interfere with the privacy we assumed. That makes Buell meets so refreshing. | ||
| Fb1 |
For your leg wound...maybe check with a nurse, or an ER, to see if they've ever seen a similar wound? Perhaps a lil forensics might help answer "WTF is this?".... I'd love to know what bit me, but I don't want to know quite that bad.  I do find it interesting that the wound is perfectly round, and measures approximately .22 inches in diameter... | ||
| Zac4mac |
Airsoft or weak air-pellet gun. I have a .22 Crosman Nitro-piston that puts a pellet thru a steel aerosol can and 6 layers of double corrugated cardboard. Z | ||
| Glitch |
Found a 22lr Kadet conversion for my 9mm. Swaps over in less than a minute.  | ||
| Rick_a |
I've decided to keep the ugly little Ruger LCR-22 for myself and have ordered a surplus Star BM and Beretta 92S through Classic Firearms to give away as presents this Christmas. The prices are crazy good right now. They're excellent pistols that universally get rave reviews.   The Star is a little tough to find mags for, but Beretta still makes 92 magazines with the bottom release cutout, interestingly. I passed on a Glock 19 I could've got lightly used for a paltry sum for some reason. Oh well. Those will always be around. (Message edited by Rick_a on May 21, 2019) | ||
| Chauly |
I've cut the notch in several F magazines that a friend gave me. Works fine... |
