Nice, glad you got things worked out. I had a 22LR shell bounce behind my glasses and come to a rest on my cheek once. Hot stuff!
When I was in the US Army I had a buddy shooting to my left. The guy next to him cut loose with a Ruger Mk1 and Jim got a "fresh" .22 empty down the back of his shirt.
I had no idea what the hollering and dancing was about till the empty finally made it's way out the bottom of his t-shirt to the concrete. I had to laugh, hard. He pulled his shirt up and had one red burn the size/shape of a .22 empty on it's side and a second with the base of the case (in red) and a perfect unburnt U for UMC that used to be on some of the Remington .22 ammo just down below that.
I had to calm him down so there was no butt kicking going on at the pistol range. He was really upset with that guy.
Met a guy down at Ramseur with a funny looking scar on the side of his neck. He told me during a timed fire stage he had a hot/burning sensation on the side of his neck and figured he got hit by a .308 empty from the guy to his left (prone, timed fire). When he'd fired his last shot of the stage he got his arm out of the sling and reached up to his neck to see how tender the burn was and found the empty was stuck to his neck. That's real concentration right there. Ignoring a hot .308 case stuck to your neck.
