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Flashlight and shot gun butt do not mix well OUCH

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The other night we had a opossum on the porch again and the boy garbed his 20 gauge shot gun and me the metal cased flashlight. Some how the recoil of the shot gun go me on the thumb of my right hand. The thumb nail went from a nice pink color to an instant black/blue color and instant pain big time. Seem the butt of the gun jammed the nail back because behind the nail is real sore now after a couple days. Keeping a band aid on the nail so as to keep it from getting ripped off if I hit something wrong which always seems to happen when you do something like this
 
If you have blood under the thumbnail and you don't want to lose the nail heat the tip of a needle in a flame and poke a hole in the nail with the needle to let the blood drain out. I was told this by a neighbor after I had lost a fingernail last winter.
Zach
 
take something sharp and put a hole though your nail and let the blood come out and you won't lose the nail works for me
 
I have done the needle under the thumb nail trick before. It doesn't feel very good, but my nail has healed up nicely.
 
Yup... as Zach said, a hot needle and a steady hand. It relieves the pressure under the nail and is instant relief.
Nothing like pushing a a red hot needle through the top of your thumb nail. Dad said it will separate the men from the boys. I think first time I did it, it took me about 30 minutes to figure out if I was man or boy! (was probably more like schoolgirl...)
But, go slow. There's no pain at all in it, just the relief once it goes through. Oh, once it goes through , the blood that exits will cool the needle.

Hope I don't ever have to do that again...

Tony
 
Way to late for that plus it was not just a small place under the nail but the whole nail went black in an instant so way to much blood over to big an area to help save it but yes I have used the needle trick for one that had a small area and yes it worked
 
A drill press with a small diameter drill makes drilling a hole through a fingrnail go the easier. There is no chance the bit will go in too far and cause new damage.

Hope you feel better soon.
 
I had the same problem the first time I tried the hot needle trick. You sure grow up fast once the pressure is releived. LOL
 
Boy - I don't know if I'd have guts enuf to drill my thumbnail with a power drill. I can see where I'd screw that up real bad. I always used a small sharp drill bit and twisted it with my fingers. Goes thru in no time. And at a controlled depth. . .
 
(quoted from post at 20:11:24 10/07/12) Boy - I don't know if I'd have guts enuf to drill my thumbnail with a power drill. I can see where I'd screw that up real bad. [b:69e04ee46f]I always used a small sharp drill bit and twisted it with my fingers. Goes thru in no time. And at a controlled depth. . .[/b:69e04ee46f]
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I've done it that way many times also, it works very well.
 
Heat the end of a straightened paper clip and push the hot blunt end onto the nail, the thumbnail will melt just like plastic. My dad showed me this trick many, many years ago. But when the blood starts coming out and the pressure relieved your knees will buckle!
 
Well when you have a mile long driveway and the nearest neighbor is a mile away by road or a 1/4 mile as the crow flies there are a lot of animals around. Nice thing is town is only 7 miles so I have the best of both worlds. Out in the middle of no where but still close enough to town
 
The animals do have a victory now and again out your way.
This one seems serious compared to the pyjamas on the cold porch episode.
 
Just a case of how things where and had my thumb to close to the butt of the gun when the boy pulled the trigger. No worse then when you hit your thumb with a hammer good and hard. Ascendents do happen no matter how careful a person is. Plus when your trying to shoot an animal that is by no means slow it is easy to hold a flashlight for that other person and have to be very close to them and then you get what I did. But then you would have had to been here to get the whole thing as it happened and we are not 100% sure how he/I did this
 
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