Slide bite

Some of you have been asking about the Slide bite picture that I put up on IG last week.

Plain and simple, I did not correct my improper grip on the gun during a course of fire. The moment I felt my palm on the gun to snatch it from the kydex I knew it was wrong. I typically get pretty high on the trip and figured that it would just give me a light kiss—I was wrong.

I followed through and my hand actually stopped the slide from going all the way to the rear and seized on the web of my hand.

I worked the slide after smacking the magazine and continued the course of fire, where the optic and frame became covered in my blood.

At the time it wasn’t particularly painful, no more than slide bite usually is. I finished the course of fire and Don (and other shooters) let me know that there was “a lot of blood.”

A photographer buddy had a simple first aid kit with him and I was able to get it cleaned up and taped shut. Thanks, Tristan.

This is a good reminder to assemble and keep a boo-boo kit handy.

Looking back I should have spoke up and started over, but here we are. It made the next few days of shooting interesting and I had to glove up, something I don’t normally do with my right hand. I usually wear a glove on my left hand for a hot rifle, posting on my hand to go prone, etc. Having to account for a bandage under a glove while shooting a pistol was something I’ve never done and made shooting my pistol a little more difficult.

No one cares why you missed. Keep going.