EyePro At The Range: It’s Not A Vague Suggestion

By Bob Owens

Some people simply have to learn the hard way.

A woman suffered an eye injury Monday at an Anderson County shooting range, deputies said.

The call came in just before 2 p.m. about a shooting at the Skip J Range on Murphy Road, dispatchers said.

The accident was reported Monday at the Skip-J Range on Murphy Road.

Lt. Sheila Cole said the woman was taken to AnMed Health System, but she did not know the severity of the woman’s injuries.

Deputies said the investigation is preliminary, but they said members of the range were target practicing at the time of the accident.

A shot fired in a different area of the range apparently ricocheted and caused what is described as a foreign matter injury to the woman’s eye, deputies said.

Quality, impact resistant eye protection is an absolute must, which I know better than most.

Our relay of eight shooters was working on close-range carbine work, firing at paper targets backed by an earth berm cut out of the hillside. During this particular set of stoppage recover drills, I fired a series of shots and felt something jar my glasses and push the frames to my face. There wasn’t any pain and no obstruction to …Read the Rest

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