The importance of mouth protection

[Reaper6]

Ever wonder what would happen if you got a mouth full of 400+fps bbs at 10' away? You have?! Well, wonder no more. Take a good look, boys & girls. This is the result of 2 screwups: an idiot ignoring the ROEs and me not protecting my face. A simple mouthguard or even a shemagh covering my mouth would've saved me from this fate. Don't be like me. Keep those chickletts covered.

[kjones734]

I got popped from my own sniper rifle that my buddy was using from about 150 feet away. I lost my tooth to the left of my 2 front teeth. ever since then I always wear a wire mesh mask over my mouth. it has saved me a few times since I started wearing it. I have seen 3 other broken teeth in my years of playing. Yours is the worst though, sorry you had to deal with this and I hope it all works out for you.

[Stinger]

I just started wearing a SISU Aeroguard. They're not expensive and if you fit them correctly you can talk normally while wearing them.
How exactly did this happen and what's the total damage?

[Reaper6]

How exactly did this happen and what's the total damage?

I came around the corner behind him about 10 feet away. I called out, "Bang!". He spun around and lit me up ith a gun that chronoed 407 fps. I was a bloody mess spitting my wrecked teeth into my hands.

Total bill so far is $8776.00, 16 missing teeth and a set of iritating dentures. On a positive note, I've lost 20 lbs throughout the process; can't eat a lot of what I used to.

[Stinger]

Damn dude, that's crazy.

[kjones734]

wow thats brutal, Im assuming he was using full auto? How many rounds did you take to the mouth?

[Reaper6]

wow thats brutal, Im assuming he was using full auto? How many rounds did you take to the mouth?

Yep, full auto. And, I have no idea how many rounds it was. He had a high ROF, though and held it for a couple of seconds. 30+ would be my guess. Had a few up my nose too. They came out easily enough.

[jeff-53]

I hope you heal quickly .  Jeff

[luke213]

Damn that right there is why I'm a little leery of this high ROF push going on, but this is by far the worst I've seen. Just damn.

I played for many years without any mouth protection, since I had crazy problems fogging over the years and mesh masks really didn't exist back then. So the options were neoprene which isn't great, paintball masks which I never cared for etc. Since I came back to playing I saw mesh masks and immediately bought one and love it. And after seeing that picture I'm going to continue to always run face protection;)

Hope you get everything sorted out, I know how teeth problems are my current dental bill well what they want me to do runs in the same ballpark price wise. And that's not counting the $4,000 or so I've spent already;)

Luke

[Cats]

Just want to say thanks for this post and give it a little bump for the beginning of the season.


PSA: also remember to do warmup stretches before games kids, it's not a joking matter. Your joints will thank you for it when you get old.

[luke213]

Agreed on both fronts and hydrate;)

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[FearRoback]

For Indoor and rec games I always use the lower Mesh mask. I don't take the chance. Milsims I don't use lower,  I don't get engaged that close so I don't worrie that much.