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Think it has been settled. The backstop behind the frames is solid full of lead. Think we were having ricochettes off of the spent lead. Ouch!

Cleaned and inspected gun this morn...all is fine. Took to the range, and this time watched the casings sling out rather than the target. Each one acted proper... slinging out far and above to the right. After reading about Monarch being known to have improper pressures, I still have to wonder if it was a bullet blowing up. They were FMJ's.

Pawpaw wrote:Are you certain it was spent cases hitting you?

It sounds more like bullet spatter. Was another shooter doing something stupid?

We were the only two on the outdoor range! I agree, it really felt like I was hit by a spent bullet fragment.

I guess its possible it is extractor... but we have all been hit by ejecting brass. This was with such force it cut skin through pants and felt like it was propelled in some way.

At the range today, using steel cased Monarch 9mm.. wife was shooting the Taurus 24/7 Pro. All of she is to my right and the ejection port is on her right. I was about 15 feet from her (on her left). Outdoor range, no sidewalls to bounce off of...when all of a sudden I am smacked with force by an empty shell. Not just a pop-fly we all get sometime, but hard. A couple of rounds later, she has the same happen to her, grazing her elbow (cutting it) and hitting her leg (through her pants) hard enough to all but draw blood. Too many spent cases on the ground to know which was ours to examine.. any ideas what could cause this? I can't imagine anything with the gun could do this.
A theory? What about cheaper, slower burning powder... that once ejected, continued to burn and missiled out of the gun?