I had a call tonight where a guy ‘accidentally’ discharged his 12ga remmy 870 into his right foot with a high-brass 2 &3/4" triple-aught buck shell. It was nearly a contact shot (tons of powder burns around the entrance wound).
The shot column entered the interior of his right foot just behind the ball of his foot, traversed his foot, and exited the outside about 2 inches behind his right toe. It appeared that the shot column was still tucked inside the shot cup/wadding as it traversed his foot.
No projectiles were found and the ER doctor’s determined that he was missing a large but unknown percentage of bone mass from the foot that had simply been “blown out of his foot”.
The xrays were REALLY bad (his foot looked like a bag of skin with a handful of garden rocks thrown inside of it). The wound was even worse in person.
No pix (sorry, I like my job).
It was very interesting to see the amount of bone damage (he would have been much better to have gotten his foot run over by a semi) despite the shot column behaving much like a slug.
The Doctors told me the likelihood of him walking on that foot again is “0%”.
Just thought I’d share this little tidbit. Merry Christmas.
Definite uptick in ND incidents lately. There seems to have been a BOGO on clown shoes. Fortunately, most involve only property damage rather than injuries. Some interesting bullet recoveries and barrier data though.
Gunshots are funny things. Sometimes spectacular, sometimes “you were shot? Where?”
I’ve also seen people do the same while standing to keep the muzzle out of the mud and dirt while hunting.
I wonder if this joker wasn’t doing something similar? Bet he was and let the gun slip and grabbed the trigger by accident trying to catch it. Bet he also forgot to put the safety on. Or he was so drunk he could not tell the difference. I have seen that too. I wonder if Mr. ETOH played a factor in this ‘accident’?
I have seen the shotgun on the boot as well. Mostly the older guys they do the same with hunting rifles. I don’t know about them but I’d rather get a bit of mud in my perdy rifle or even have it blow up then loose a body part LOL.
You may know, or you may not, but the loaded gun is never rested on the foot. This is a “break action thing”. I’ve never rested any other type of skeet/clays gun on my foot, nor ever rested a non-broken O/U on my foot.
I’m neutral on this practice, but wanted to clarify.
My older brother use to have the habit of resting his shotgun barrel on the tip if his boot when dog hunting waiting for a deer. When he was 14 or so he somehow pulled trigger inadvertently, and either he moved it fast enough or the recoil moved it fast enough where the shot missed his toes by centimeters.
When I was a boy up in the northeast the rabbit hunters used to rest the barrels on there boots - keep the snow out of the barrels - no one used slings.
From the time we were boys and hunting we were taught to always open the action when crossing a barrier like a fence. It only takes one instance of inattention to mess up your day. One cousin, usually with his head screwed on right, forgot to do this. He’s now missing a couple fingers from his right hand. (Still has the trigger finger though.)
That would worry me to no end. There is never a reason to muzzle yourself.
