Who carries a first aid kit while shooting ?

So who carries a first aid kit in their bag while shooting ?

  • Yes, a comprehensive kit containing all the stuff needed to carry out brain surgery in a muddy field

    Votes: 7 6.6%

  • Yes, a full kit with field dressings, gauze, bandages, plasters & surgical tape etc.

    Votes: 36 34.0%

  • Yes, a very basic kit with a few plasters & some out of date paracetemal.

    Votes: 18 17.0%

  • Nope, if i cut my finger ( or anything else ) ill just suck it 'till i get home.

    Votes: 48 45.3%
  • Total voters
    106
jev said:
There's a professional fully stocked and checked kit on the range, there's a list of people having done first-aid training, why should I bring anything but some paracetamol? o_O
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Sounds very reasonable to me. It's all down to circumstances i.e. what type of shooting is being done? how many people are shooting? Is there already a first aid kit? Are you the organiser? I wouldnt bring a first aid kit to a range either if I was shooting sub 12 at a commercial range. They will have one, plus I have a kit in my car.
 
wiltshirejohn said:
These days I only ever shoot at home but - I ticked option 2 in the selection list. That's kept in the car in an old ammo box.
In my chainsaw overalls I keep an "ambulance dressing".
The contents of the kit are informed not only by the 'Emergency First Aid at Work' courses of 20 years ago (now retired) but also the specialist course developed by BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) for people yomping around the countryside wielding axes, billhooks and chainsaws etc. (I used to do hedgelaying and a bit of coppice work and always carried the ammo box)

The idea for an ammo box for storage came from the instructor on the BTCV course. He was a tutor at an agricultural college and told his students of the indestrucablity of said boxes, saying "you could drive a tractor over 'em".
He came back from lunch one day to find his personal box now had tractor tyre marks all over it :)
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Surplus ammo boxes are great. Airtight, watertight and quick opening for easy access of contents. The small .30 caIiber ones are perfect for a first aid kit stashed away in a vehicle. I bought several pallet loads of the larger 20mm containers for moving overseas & as storage. Never had to worry about salt water ingress or damage to my tools or our smaller household and personal items.
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Like others, I carry a comprehensive first aid kit in my car. It's a hangover from my working days when we had to carry one. I just check it occasionally to ensure everything's up to date.

I remember a few years back someone selling a lanyard that included all your relevant personal details if you were injured and couldn't help yourself

I also recommend for personal safety people download the what3 words app. It can be used to inform the services where you are within 3m
 
Basic first aid kit kept in the car and a defib..

On the occasion I'm invited on a shoot I often wonder how many older guns have cardiac events on a shoot day.
 
I did a Red Cross first aid course/exam in the 1950's aged 8 years my mother was in a wheel chair on steroids when they used tea spoons not milligram's steroid shock was common, first aid needed at work I continued first aid courses until I retired. I carry a first aid kit in the car & military Field dressings in the sleeve pockets of various coats as I often have my powder burners/shotguns with me.
 
Very apt for this thread.... :)
Today at the range I had a target card out, but it was a bit windy so the (thin) card was flapping about. A mate at the range offered some cardboard backing, which I accepted.
I then proceeded to staple the target to the cardboard backing, and promptly put a 10mm staple through the card into my finger...Doh!!!
Bleeding profusely, and fumbling about in my range box, could I find a bloody plaster? No!
Another mate at the range to the rescue, with his box of plasters.
I swear I had a box of plasters in my range bag, but I have obviously lost them? So, when I got home, immediately put a new small box of plasters in my range box.

And my bloody finger is still throbbing! Homer face palm
 
Had a climber working for me pollarding a tree, he'd just finished(still up the tree)took his finger of the saws trigger, so it was slowing down & he caught his arm with it, it took the top layers of skin off but didn't bleed, but he had a 6" piece of skin wrapped around the chain & but still attached to his arm, he went in to shock, so the old bald fat bloke had to climb the tree cut off the skin get rid of the saw then get him down & to hospital
 
I spent many years wild camping on motorcycle trips and we always carried a half decent first aid kit for camping cooking or falling off off road bikes in the middle of nowhere so I still have a kit in my grab bag that goes nearly everywhere with me.
 
I carry a small but well stocked kit to all my permissions and also have one in my emergency bag in the car:
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Since this is an airgun forum and I'm answering in a airgun shooting airgun scenario then no. If I was going to carry for airgun shooting then I may as well carry a kit on me at all times but I'm not that kind of person.
 
bootneckbob said:
Since this is an airgun forum and I'm answering in a airgun shooting airgun scenario then no. If I was going to carry for airgun shooting then I may as well carry a kit on me at all times but I'm not that kind of person.
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I think it’s only sensible to expect the unexpected; ‘airgun scenario’ or not.

All clubs must have first aid kits on site, so that could be a reason for not bringing your own basic kit in your bag.

I would say that having a kit at a permission is a must for me.
Better to have it for peace of mind, than be left wanting in an emergency, especially as I’m generally on my own in sometimes remote locations.

I recently came to the assistance of someone who had fallen and cut their head and hand - nothing serious but claret was dripping everywhere.
I had my basic kit in the car and was able to quickly glove up to clean / patch the poor chap.
 
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