WHAT A SAFETY RECORD ! THIS DAY CHANGED EVERYTHING I KNEW ABOUT SAFETY

November 15 2004,

I started his day pretty good its was my brothers birthday !And we both enjoy shooting and firearms ,so we had the day off work we decided we would run down to cave run lake by morehead kentucky for a day of busting targets and a day celebrating his birthday! we did the usual went to breakfast , the day before we readied our firearms for a day of shooting, we had two people with us who had never shot an firearm in their life! i am a trained united states marine not current but a former infantryman , i am trained well with most infantry weapons any way i have always prided my self on my safety record at all shooting levels up till this day was perfect! Millions of round ejected and misfires that i have cleared due to bad primes or dinged up ammo and i mean nothing happened either, unless you've shot for close to twenty years with excellent safety, then BANG ! THE RIFLE EXPLODES A 308 CAL SHELL RUPTURES IN THE CHAMBER! WOW WHAT HAPPENED! I am dazed ,looks like im looking through a waterfall ,cant focus,ears ringing,shaking all i cant hear is being like a vacuum all quite then you hear all the sound run back in then you realize you just had a major weapon malfunction! the ammo was PMC bronzeline a really cheap price 308 cartridge ,Yes i was wearing shooting ballistic glasses we could not find them they where totally evaporated in the rifle explosion an m-14 rifle it was my favorite rifle i shot it ceasely there was nothing that i couldn't hit with it love it ! so after realizing i was really hurt couldn't feel it though maybe it was the Adrenalin for the blast, that fight of flight you feel before a fight or event my face was peppered left rib cage had a good size hole right anterior knee peppered with shell fragment's too! it makes you think about everything you did up to that last shot when it finely bites you and wakes you up to the reality that no matter how long you participate in something so dangerous that on day no matter how much safety you try to practice it can still be your time if you do something long enough..... i will continue and try to get to point in my next post gotta leave you with what is going on next ! I want to thank my wife for letting me pursue my writing ,with out her. i couldnt be myself and share what i know