An email I recieved today:

A St. Louis, Missouri guy on my AR-15 forum had a bad accident with
his S&W 460XVR Magnum yesterday. He was shooting with a two handed hold and got his left thumb up near the lower front of the cylinder. The
normal (powerful) gasses blowing out at the barrel/cylinder gap ripped the
top of his left thumb off. I've added some of his posts &some pics. No joke, about 1/2 of my left thumb is gone ... what's left is a
friggin mess.It's pretty hard to type, and I'm only posting because you never
know, it
might save somebody else a thumb. I was using a 2-handed grip, fired
off
a Cor-Bon DPX .460 and the blast came violently out the side of the
gun.At first my thumb was so covered in blood that I couldn't see how bad
it was ... and I was full of adrenaline and felt no pain. And honestly
it looked really bad, my whole hand was covered in blood and it was
kinda gushing.
The blown-off thumb was on my support hand. I'll re-create the grip
tomorrow to see where my thumb was, but it's not like I didn't
already
know not to get any body part near the cylinder gap. And even if I
totally screwed up and did, taking my thumb clean off seems a bit
excessive?
Just be careful with those 460's. That case operates at such high
pressure, it's just asking for trouble.
BTW, I bought my 460 new and had exactly 12 rounds through it. Info
about
the gun, it's a full-size 460 with the 8 3/4' barrel and factory
installed compensator. It's one of the Whitetails Unlimited models.
Ammo was 200gr Cor-Bon DPX.
The gun only had 12 or 13 rounds of the Cor-Bon through it, and 10
.45 Long Colt rounds through it. So it was essentially still brand new.
Saw a hand specialist while there today. Lots of ways to try and save
what's left, but first I just have to hope it doesn't get infected in
the
next few days ... then surgery early next week.
The hand specialist I spent a few hours with last night said that in
gunshot wounds there is always a lot more damage than is first
visible
... same with things like fireworks going off in your hand. A lot
more
flesh around the wound is dead, and will rot and fall off over the
next couple days. That's why it's so important to keep clean, and that's
also why they can't do surgery now. If they wrapped new skin over dead
skin it would just puss out, possibly turn gang-green, and they'd have to start
all over again.

yep...That's gonna leave a mark.


Hopefully a valueable lesson was learned.

wow... that had to hurt!

:puke: :yuck: That isn't right!!!:yuck: :puke:

Oh my gosh, I think I'm gonna be ill.:eek: :yuck: :puke: :banplease:

That's really ugly! :scared:

Oh my gosh, I think I'm gonna be ill.:eek: :yuck: :puke: :banplease:

How is this a issue with banning?!?!?!?!?! It is a true event that could happen to anyone who isnt careful!!!!!!!!!!! :frusty: :frusty:

retard....

yeah thats pretty stupid... :doh:

Oooooowwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good visual aid my 9 year old daughter is studying for her hunter ed card showed this to her now she under stands what can happen by improper gun handling

I know a ton of folks who should take a peak at that picture. Scary thing is I used to gun hunt with a few of 'em

YEP if you ganna be stupid you gatta be tough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:doh:

I wouldn't take that hand position with a .22 revolver, let alone a .460. Hope he recovers,(hope he learns from this mistake) He has a long road to recovery.

[B]OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1[B] I hope that he learned something:doh:

at leasr he won't have ta worry bout gripping a bow to tight:laugh:

How anybody who ever shot a pistol would ever hold one like that I have no idea.
How anyone who never shot a pistol would be allowed to hold one like that, with even the most cursory supervision, I have no idea
What was this tard doing when he bought a .460, when he had no business with a .22 short?
I hope this knucklehead never holds a pistol again. He is a menace to self and others. It's not a issue of "Too much Gun", it's a issue of "Does he wear a crash helmet 24/7, and did he ride to school on the short bus?"
It's not a issue of being careful with .460's. This guy shouldn't hold a cap pistol.
Obama wants him to be able to sue the gun and ammo manufacturer.
Somebody should pay, right?

dang. justs make u think of how dangerous guns are.

Most Revolvers have a .007" gap between the cylinder and barrel, more than enough for high pressure hot gas to come out.


In the early 90's I was shooting 44 and learned a lesson. I was shooting off a bench with cloth lead shot bags as a rest, resting the bottom of the barrel on teh shot bags, by the 3rd shot, the cloth on the bags was burning / smoldering!!!!

I actually laughed.....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Is there something wrong with me? :noidea:

not sure what to think on that. never saw anyone hold a revolver like that before.

that only goes to show that no matter how good we think we are and how many times we say " I would never be dumb enough to do that" it can and sometime does happen to the best of us. That is why I always say that I hope I never do that, instead of "He was stupid, I would never do that" cause I know that stuff happens and it can happen to anyone of us.:peace:

dang. justs make u think of how dangerous guns are.

Any thing is and can be potentially dangerous in the hands of inexperience and operator error. If firearms are dangerous than so are bows and even pencil sharpeners. :dizzy:

Any thing is and can be potentially dangerous in the hands of inexperience and operator error. If firearms are dangerous than so are bows and even pencil sharpeners. :dizzy:

yea, get em red eye......and...and.......and......so are crayons and rubberbands....and,and,and,and....so are phonebooks and calcultors!!!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :noidea: :peace:

yea, get em red eye......and...and.......and......so are crayons and rubberbands....and,and,and,and....so are phonebooks and calcultors!!!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :noidea: :peace:

Good one. :bored:

Good one. :bored:

U know you like it...........................................:bigg rin1: