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phillip
Whats the aprox maximum angle a bullet could ricochet?
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  • phillip
    We were out shooting in the late 80s and a friend shot an old engine block and the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the stomach. It did not cause any major problems but it scared the crap out of me. He was the only one drinking. I remember him saying i got a flesh wound. The Air Force was pissed though. [:D]
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  • divebomb
    180 degrees


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc
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  • guntech59
    According to the 50BMG video on youtube it's 180 degrees!

    DANG! You beat me to it.
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  • A J Christ
    Been hit with one I fired at a water tank. 180 degrees.
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  • flyingtorpedo
    quote:Originally posted by A J Christ
    Been hit with one I fired at a water tank. 180 degrees.


    I saw that video a week ago. I think he needs another pair of underwear. I know I would.[;)]
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  • phillip
    Oh yeah,I forgot the 50 bmg vid.
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  • phillip
    quote:Originally posted by A J Christ
    Been hit with one I fired at a water tank. 180 degrees.



    You wernt shooting rocks were you?
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  • divebomb
    All I know is' if i was that guy id never buy a lottery ticket again!

    That sum bitch spent all his luck that day!

    As for me I'm gonna keep firing the 50 cal and the 416 and play the lotto too, on a weekly basis.[:D]
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I've had a .357 Sig go through a fence post, into a tree, and come back to hit the hand that fired it...A true 180 ricochet...scaird (sp?)the hell out of me.
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  • divebomb
    thats not a ricochet ECC.
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  • Zebra
    When I was 16 I shot a .22 at a piece of light gauge steel at 30 feet, whizzed by my right ear.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by divebomb
    thats not a ricochet ECC.




    What in the world would you call it? The only thing I can think is that it either ricocheted off another bullet lodged in the tree or somehow traveled around the ring inside the tree and back out the hole that it entered...
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  • MVP
    Do Not Shoot Rubber Tire Piles.
    180
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  • v35
    The definition of ricochet also includes (180 deg.) rebound.
    You can't appreciate this truth until you fire 30 & 50 BMG tracers in a gravel pit. Wooden barriers may be better.
    You can see the stuff goes everywhere. That's why I'd caution anyone anxious to fire tracers or APIs to be very careful of inadvertantly starting fires.
    I've had a 30 carbine jacket rebound and stick in my throat.
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  • divebomb
    ok if it did come back at you it didnt go through the tree.

    trees as you know are soft, even the hard ones.

    it hit something in its path.

    maybe, you tell me, did you hit a tree?

    and to make the round come back it would have to hit something pretty supstantial. to make it come back.

    my next thought were you point blank?

    Im not discrediting you, I just think there is more to it. [8D]
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  • divebomb
    my thought is maybe it hit something in the fence post?
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  • givette
    Knothole in the tree. Old nail. Embedded bullet. Could be anything. I'm a believer.

    I can remember seeing tracer ricochets spraying everywhere. The other rounds between the tracers, I'm sure, were ricocheting, also. Joe
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  • Laredo Lefty
    That guy in the video got hit in the ear muffs, not the head. Two clues....... the sound of the impact on his hearing protectors and the fact that he did not end up on the ground flopping around like a fish with blood squirting from his head.

    Very interesting, non the less. I had a 180 degree ricochet .223 jacket come back and stick in my forehead years ago.
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  • slackmason
    that ricochet is pretty damn crazy but but movement of the dust just from the shockwave of firing the gun is pretty damn impressive too!
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  • HandLoad
    I volunteer as a Range Safety Officer at my local 100 yard, 6-lane gunrange...part of our duties is to sweep up the firing line - Every Time I do this, there are multiple pieces of jacket and sometimes partial bullets. I believe that the firing line is swept daily.

    Wear a Hat, and safety glasses, EVERY TIME!!
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  • tacking1
    The other videos that came up when I looked at the youtube were pretty freaking scary...one was a drunk woman shooting a 50 cal...the other was an idiot at the range.

    drunks, idiots, and guns....no wonder non gun owners are afraid of people that own guns....

    y'all watch the video of the drunk woman with the 50 cal...will make you sick
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by divebomb
    ok if it did come back at you it didnt go through the tree.

    trees as you know are soft, even the hard ones.

    it hit something in its path.

    maybe, you tell me, did you hit a tree?

    and to make the round come back it would have to hit something pretty supstantial. to make it come back.

    my next thought were you point blank?

    Im not discrediting you, I just think there is more to it. [8D]


    No...it went through the fence post (which had a hole shot through it from repetitive shooting), into the tree and back out at me. The holes in the target tell the story. It was the 4-5 round in the magazine.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Divebomb...Here is the original thread from when it happened:

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=199665&SearchTerms=I,shot,myself
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  • Chevy II 429
    Was at a indoor shooting and had a 44 mag come back and hit me in the shin! I'd put that one at 180 degrees!
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  • beantownshootah
    Holy crap!

    Once I saw a guy at competition get hit in the face with a richochet of a handloaded .45 off of a wood bowling pin.

    Thing put a small nick in his chin, but he took it like a trooper and DIDN'T STOP shooting!
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  • divecop
    I had a .45 come straight back at me, hit my belt buckle and lodged between me and my pants. It came from my gun shot at waist level.
    It missed my gun by inches. Kinda scary cuz it felt like I got hit
    in the gut. didn't know what it was at first till I felt the burning.
    Pulled the slug out and checked for holes. Just a welp and red with
    some soreness.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    shoot long enough it will happen sooner or later, especially hand guns, i've been hit so many times i lost count, all the more reason safety glasses are a must, i see guy all the time with regular glasses, and no side shields drives me nuts

    only one that ever drew blood was a damn wwb .38 special, i got hit n the cheek below my eye with a sliver of the jacket
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  • A J Christ
    Been hit twice in my life. Last time was #4 birdshot from a 12 ga shotgun. Old 1148 wasn't cycling so I cleaned it, loaded it and went out back, was going to fire the mag out in an old tree stump. Fired her off and got hit in the left arm, stomach and legs. Fired out the rest of the mag into the field out back and went in, wife freaked when she saw the blood. Washed in the sink and left some pellets, went to the shower and left some more. Wife wanted to go to the emergency room so we went, told them to xray me to see if I got them all, if not, go after them, if I got them all, give me a tetanus shot and I'll be on my way. They wanted to know if I had called the law. I asked what for to arrest a tree stump? By the way, they only had to go after 1 pellet.
    A few years ago had a communist pistol chambered for 7.62 Tokarev, was shooting it in the junk pile and fired the last shot into the bottom of a steel water tank, one of those that was dished. It came right back at me and hit me in the calf. Lucky for me it was just under the skin, wife dug it out. Ruined a good pair of Levis. Traded that pistol for a nice 3 screw Ruger Blackhawk
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