Originally Posted By: Bornyo

I'm not used to such a small gun, and it showed last Saturday. I was shooting it outdoors and the slide took a substantial chunk out of my left thumb just behind the nail. Imagine a hangnail that becomes a divot and you'll get an idea of the unpleasantness.


Could be worse. They had an episode of MythBusters where they proved it was possible to blow your own thumb off by improperly holding a high-powered handgun. I can't remember which gun they used, but it was something really powerful like a Casull .454.