casing in face shooting lefty?

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Twelve days ago, I was shooting my M1 in standing position, along with some other league shooters. At one point, I felt a pain in my face, let-out an unintelligble noise ("Argh!"), lowered my rifle, and clawed at my face, and pulled-off a casing.

It seems that a flying casing knocked my safety glasses off (3M 1760), and stuck to my eye socket. I found my glasses about 3 feet forward of the firing line. I had three light burns: on my cheekbone, corner of my eye, and on my eyebrow, all in a vertical line where the casing had stuck. They scabbed-over, and the scabs peeled off two days ago, so they were just "superficial". Still, it wasn't much fun, and might have been dangerous if I hadn't been shooting single-shot.

I shoot lefty, so I'm used to having casings bounce off my head from right-eject shooters. In this case, the fellow left of me was shooting a Norinco SKS... I thought it was ejecting down or up (don't recall). Also, I had an empty chamber after the incident, so either I got hit by his casing after I fired, but before I lowered my rifle, or else the casing which stuck me was my own.

I'm thinking it was probably my own casing, or I would have had a loaded rifle, not an empty one. I was wondering if other lefty shooters have caught a casing in the face from their own Garand? I'd say about 1/3 of my M1 casings land at about 2 yards away @2 o'clock, and the other 2/3 land at 2 yards at 3 o'clock.

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