Hot Brass Dance #1
Mar01
Yes, a bunch of you were waiting for this strip. And the strips that come next. It should be noted that Monday’s strip may have some nudity. As I type this, a week in advance, I haven’t drawn that strip yet – but I’m going to spend all of tomorrow doing so. Cuz naked tits are funny. Especially with pain involved. Ask Josh Lesnick.
[edit] Biden, will you please, please shut your stupid fucking mouth about guns? PLEASE?
Calling it: Heidi is going to walk in on them with her shirt(?) off.
I always do a cleavage check before teaching women.
Oh– and I knew, in the first frame, before scrolling down, what was going to happen. Well drawn, sir. Well drawn.
I do it much more frequently! 😀
I remember the first time that happened to me. I’m proud to say that I had enough presence of mind to take my finger out of the trigger and kept the gun pointed at the target while I pulled my shirt open with one hand.
I remember the first (and last) time a 9mm casing took a bad bounce and ended up falling behind my glasses. Like you, I was happy to realize that safe handling took precedent. Muscle Memory FTW.
I panicked a bit and spun around (which I regret) while ripping off my glasses, but before I came off target, I had automatically indexed the frame and dropped the muzzle to the ground.
Fortunately, ended up with nothing more than a red mark on my eyelid.
Same for me.
Step 1: Shout profanity.
Step 2: Open bolt.
Step 3: Put rifle on the table with muzzle downrange.
Step 4: Get 9mm casing out from between collar and back of neck.
Step 5: Regain composure.
Step 6: Politely inform fellow shooter that their hot brass fucking hurts.
Step 7: Pick up where I left off.
I, like most of the shooters I know, have had the rules drilled into me, and understand their importance enough that they automatically override things that are merely unpleasant relative to the negative consequences of ignoring the rules.
happily the same thought occured to me when i took a ricochet *ahem* below the belt.
had a colt .45 commander with 6 rounds left at the time.
safety on, set on table in safe direction, then curl up and die.
The only other bad one I had was a Drill weekend at the range. I was in prone position at the 200 yard mark, and to my left I heard a “plink!” sound that for some reason sounded a little different than similar sounds other rifles were making. Hot brass on my ass but I didn’t want to move because I had a really good prone position. Just ended up gritting my teeth and cursing the other shooter.
I remember the first time that happened to my girlfriend, she wasn’t too thrilled lol
Remember the first time it happened to me. We were firing my new at the time Swiss K31. Dunno if anyone here has anyone but the action is very cool to watch. It has a tendency to eject into the vertical however. Firing 5 rounds quickly, 3rd or 4th had enough backwards trajectory to land it on the back of my neck and down into the shirt.
Ex got a good laugh out of it. Being the ass I am I canted the gun slightly on my next eject to send the spent brass her way. Wasn’t expecting it to make it into the small gap between her shirt and pants though.
Is that why she’s your ex? 😉
All those idiots who think wearing eye and ear protection to the range isn’t important or ‘cool’ are obviously not shooters. Eye and ear protection are why shooting ranges have repeat customers! Other things as noisy as a shooting range are jet engines, commercial diesel engines, and high speed newspaper presses!
Wow, that baggy Stars shirt from yesterday sure got tight fitting and low cut today!! Lets keep it this way from now on ok?!
Sadly, this is just a casing’s-eye view for this strip alone.
I think you’ll like Monday’s strip, tho.
My Luger ejects straight upward and back, and invariably drops the case on your head or down back of the neck. First time it happened I did a magnificent “Batusi” to the cheers of my ‘friends’. (I at least flipped the safety on and put it down before cuttin’ loose. I’m rather proud of that.) Shooting it is the only time I wear a cap backwards. Girls having hot-case syndrome are fun to watch and sometimes you get to be a hero and help out…. As we may be seeing here next week.
Hooray for Brass-Magnets! Although I was very prod of my wife the first time in happened to her. She had the presence of mind to engafe the safety and put her pistol down on the shooting bench before trying to fish the casing out of her top. 🙂
This is how I learned not to wear a t-shirt with a stretched-out neck when at the range. Other people don’t take kindly to a maniac with a loaded M-1911 in his hand jumping up and down and screaming. 😉
Full-on laugh aloud at that image, Stickmaker.
It’s happened to me twice (broadly speaking)–at the gravel pit where we customarily shoot, we do so one at a time, so I was standing to one side and behind my husband when I found out that his new purchase throws brass out at roughly the four-thirty position. It hit me in the ear and fell straight down into my collar, and I yelled and clawed at my shirt but had the presence of mind to keep the muzzle pointed DOWN. (I also hastily dodged around to his left, at the eight-o’clock position.)
The other time was at a rendezvous with my .45 capper– a cap burst and spit copper shards into my face, which isn’t exactly a hot-brass incident but it’ll do until one comes along. I had to pick a splinter of copper out of my cheek and there’s still a tiny pinhead scar there. (Thank God for eye protection, I’m sure some bounced off the lenses.)
Relevant http://youtu.be/WYQfrEKKD_I
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-G8cwgCK/1/L/i-G8cwgCK-L.jpg
This young lass took TWO hot .45LC cases between the twins — and finished her Cowboy Action Shooting stage. She then safely grounded the rifle, gave out a rebel yell, and shook the brass out.
Just about everyone on the range that day got a very good look at the burns. 🙂
YIKES
one time while i was shooting a .45 colt commander (so many of my interesting stories come from shooting that gun) after i had gotten off of work, i was wearing an office shirt with buttons. somehow the ejected casing bounced off the side of the lane at just the right angle to come back at my shirt, and stick one of my shirt buttons into the ase mouth. the button was the perfect size for the case so it just stuck there. at first i thought it had melted to my shirt, but then i saw what it was. one in a million shot.
Screw hot brass, had a piece .50cal brass catch in the chin strap on my kevlar once. Couldn’t remove it either had more important things to do. No scar thank god.
I can honestly say, I don’t remember WHAT I did with my gun the first time that happened. To be fair, I was very new at firearms, and there was a RED HOT SHELL BETWEEN MY BOOBS. I didn’t shoot anyone on accident, so I think I can be forgiven… -.o
Had several casings make contact with my skin on several different occasions. Honestly don’t get what the big deal is. It burns a little and that’s it.
Breasteses are just a *tad* more sensitive than manly skin.
9Mm and 45 I can understand, but .22 being that hot after ejecting?
I once caught a bit of lead and copper jacket on my face when a piece of a bullet bounced back off the backstop at an indoor range while a group of us was running a tactical scenario. Got me right on the cheek and gave me a pretty good blister before I swatted it off. And I was well behind the person shooting too.
Oh no, .22 can be VERY hot. I felt bad when, out shooting one day with friends, I decided to magdump my 10/22 with a friend’s son standing to my right. A shower of hot .22 shells cascaded down the back of his shirt, and his hot brass dance was quite the LOLs.
Original AR-180s didn’t have a brass deflector. Lefties learned in a hot hehllacious hurry to button their collars.
Pity. That was about the only shortcoming of that rifle.
I dont understand why people dont make AR 180’s. they are the perfect solution in the US, cheaper to manufacture than an AR so they could come in in the 5-700 range I would think. they have a piston bolt system negating the problems associated with DI (dirty) or several Piston conversions, they have a folding stock, the can take AR mags if modded, and they look cool. the true cross between an AR and an AK and I WANT ONE lol
Years ago I was using a lathe in a metals class and a girl that liked me came over and stood next to me while chips were coming off the turned piece. One fell into her cleavage, and she stopped liking me because I couldn’t stopped laughing.
FF thirty years, and she laughs too. Keep ’em covered when hot brass and metal shards are in the air, ladies.