Blood and SpongeBob
So, for the election last night, I was clinging to my guns. OK, actually, I had to clean the Para 45 because I went to the range Sunday and hadn’t gotten around to it yet. After I got it apart and cleaned, I reassembled it. As a result, I had some gun oil on my hands. When I racked the slide, my oily hands slipped causing my left index finger to get pinched pretty badly between the slide and the barrel. It hurt.
But you know what hurts worse? Brake cleaner in an open wound.
Also, it bled quite a bit. I needed a band-aid. And the only band-aids I could find in the house were SpongeBob SquarePants band-aids.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Obama will take that dangerous weapon off your hands, so you don’t have to worry about injuring yourself again. Just lean back, enjoy yourself, and wait for the government to solve everything.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I did that once. Took a nice big chunk out of the side of my middle finger.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:58 am
found myself sporting a batman band-aid last week!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Another senseless handgun-related injury!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I’m glad to had the intestinal fortitude to type out these posts today.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Just what are you shooting in the poor thing that you have to disassemble it to clean it? Black powder? Just blasting it with the brake cleaner and a couple of drops of CLP should have been enough.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I do that with Ruger Mk II’s and III’s all the damn time. Thankfully I have thick skin and it’s a rare slide incident that draws blood.
There was the day at the shop though where I sank the leg stop of a Harris bipod into the tip of my pinkie finger, down to the bone.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
what, no pics?
November 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Me three, but in my case it was just clumsiness. Had to pick a chunk of flesh out of the loaded-chamber indicator on my XD.
A good friend got his finger caught in the breech of his FAL one day.
Rite of passage? Blood sacrifice?
November 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I mind the story Major Unger told me about the guy who was cleaning his M1 in barracks while wearing only GI skivvies, with the flappy fly. He had some trouble getting the bolt to unlatch and go forward, had the thing in an awkward position on his lap.
You’ve heard of M1 thumb? Well, this guy invented M1, ah, weewee. No permanent damage, but they had to transfer him because everybody on post was pointing and giggling, or failing to suppress giggling, whenever they saw him.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
The Army says never, NEVER, N.E.V.E.R. use brake cleaner on weapons. It’s degreasing action is FAR too agressive, and it removes not only the surface dirt, but ALL the lube material in the pores of the metal. When you re-oil, you never get all that back.
Let’s make an analogy. If you’re from the South (or your mother was), you probably learned to cook in a cast-iron skillet that you never removed all the oils and fats from, because if you did, you would burn your next meal.
A firearm is the same way. If you remove ALL that built-up oil, and don’t put it ALL back (hard to do without baking the metal parts in oil to get the oil to flow into all the pores), you will have accelerated wear.
When you do PM on your car, do you run a degreaser through the engine block, just so you can get ALL the dirt out? Of course not.
Don’t do it to a firearm, either.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Great big ditto about break cleaner, AND the stuff is really toxic, seeps in skin and harms your liver. Check an on-line MSDS if you don’t believe me. Carb cleaner is safer, although the above cautions about replacing lubricant does apply.