[GreyWolf]

Could we have a show of hands for anyone who knows someone who put someone else's eye out with one of these toys from back when?

I'll go you one better. I darned near blinded myself with a BB gun once. My cousin and I were shooting at tin cans sitting on a plow. A BB hit the plow frame and bounced back perfectly hitting me in the right eye. Fortunately, it missed the eyeball and lodged in the corner of my eye socket. Neither my cousin nor I could tell anyone for fear of losing our BB guns. My eye turned red and almost swelled shut. Finally my Mother noticed it in spite of my trying to keep it hidden and made me fess up. A trip to the family doc confirmed that the BB was no longer there. So you see, Mom and Dad are always right.

[Vermonter]

My cousin and I were shooting at tin cans sitting on a plow

Plows! We've got to ban plows!

[1rudeboy]

That happened to me as well. I was shooting a pump Crosman at a Barbie doll perched on a cinder block about 15ft away. I must've hit the cinder block, because the .177 pellet came straight back and cracked the lens on my Winchester safety glasses. I still shudder thinking about it . . . I was 17.