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My uncle shot his pointer finger in the second joint
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 19:00

With a Daisy Powerline 1200 CO2 repeater pistol. There is a lever under a short forend that you push forward to cock the action and feed a BB. Fresh gas cartridge in it and he was trying to get it to feed and fire. It seems he accomplished both! He slipped, stuck the finger in front of the bore, pow!

He recounted it to feeling as being hit in the finger with a 3lb. hammer, while resting it on concrete. Then it shifted more towards being squeezed in a vice, but throbbing. At the hospital it was a bit of outpatient surgery with a local and tetanus shot. The steel copper wash BB had centered the bone but did not break it. It was resting against it and half flattened! A BB half flattened. I figured that impossible. Hence the hammer blow sensation. He was not happy and tried to blame everything, but the one that caused the accident. It went without saying.

One of my greatest BB gun shots was with a Crossman 454 CO2 DA pistol. I shot a large blackbird eating trash 15 yds. away THROUGH my Granny’s screen window, DRT. I had to bend the wires carefully back straight. Nobody ever knew. Another time a friend and I sat side by side on an old wood bridge over the creek, dangling our feet. We had placed a 12 ga. 3” buckshot shell in the muddy clay bank, in a snake hole or something. We took turns with a Red Ryder potting at the shell primer. I don’t remember whose turn it even was but after a good while BOOM! The empty hull went right between our heads! To our surprise the wad and buckshot were neatly still in the bank position. At firing the payload stayed put and it was the plastic hull that shot! A lesson learned, not such a slick idea after all.