<human>: I work with brass and bullets, we deprime, clean and polish brass and cast bullets. Recently(within the last few months) we started working out deals with a company to do decorative stuff and jewelry using the ammo(obviously not live). Ex. keychains, magnets, pens, pins, valve stem covers, the list goes on. 

Anyway, I was told to drill holes into some .44 mag.([patent pending brass poker](

It was doing fine before, it's not my first time doing this. For these, you stick the casing on a stick, push it into the metal pipe and hold it. It only goes into the metal pipe enough to get the hole in it, it's held properly. It doesn't move(usually).

I was drilling away, then I came to the casing that almost signed my death warrant. I start drilling, it makes it through the top side and then I don't even know what happened, all I know is that I saw the casing go one way and heard something fly by my ear, between my head and the arm holding the lever of the drill press, and hit the wall behind me.

Then I saw the broke [drill bit] The other half fell into one of the brass bins and I really didn't feel like looking for it, and I had work to do.

At first I laughed it off and got another drill bit and kept going. But then as the day went on, I kept thinking about it and realized that if it had been a little more to the left or the right, I could've been seriously fucked up. 

Here's the [bullet and the half of a drill bit.](

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<bot>: power tools can be scary as hell. Take all proper precautions and stay alert. Won't necessarily protect from everything, but it will protect from a lot.