Gunshot Wound on the Range! What You Need to Do

By Nick Leghorn

This past weekend was the monthly 3-gun shoot at the Best of the West Shooting Sports near Austin, Texas. I’ve been trying to get back into fighting condition for competition shooting (using iron sights, as previously mentioned), and so I was looking forward to a fun day on the range challenging and honing my shooting skills. That’s what I was expecting…but what I experienced instead was a challenge for my emergency medical skills. I’d never treated a gunshot wound on a range before, and I’d like to go over what happened that morning, both as a way to give y’all a framework for dealing with these events and as a debrief for myself to see if there’s something I missed or could have done better . . .

I had just finished shooting the first stage of the day. I decked my shotgun and dropped my cameras in my range bag when I heard someone shouting from the bay across the road. I looked up, and they shouted again. “MEDIC!”

I hesitated. Not because I was scared, but because I was out of practice. I was first licensed as an EMT in Pennsylvania while I …read more

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