Luckiest Man Alive
Sends .50 cal bullet downrange. It comes back.
Topics: military
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:58 am on Saturday, July 14, 2007
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July 14th, 2007 at 11:30 am
He was one lucky bastard, that’s all I can say.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Damn! That made the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up and salute. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It looked like the bullet ricocheted off the target and hit the ground right in front and then ricocheted again to hit him in the head. If it hadn’t hit the ground first, he’d probably be dead. Fool.
July 14th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
That’s what happened, Rebecca, except it hit his hearing protection, not his skull. If it hit his head, there’ a good chance the shooter would have been laying on his back, kicking his legs and screaming. Not dead, but probably headed that way.
Shooting at hard metal targets is best left to someone who knows that they are doing. These characters didn’t know their weapon.
July 15th, 2007 at 7:46 am
The outdoor range I shoot at has hard metal targets…. that are angled to direct the rounds down into a ditch behind an earth berm, just to prevent this kind of thing. Whoever laid out that range should turn in his suit.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
The lesson for today’s class is, use frangible bullets on the shooting range! especially when shooting hard targets. I’ve had hard bullets bounce back on me, by shooting hard (high antimony content) lead bullets at low velocities at fresh hardwood cant backstop.
this fellow was probably shooting military ball ammo, not a good idea, a steel bullet at a steel target. that’s a big bullet too, around 750 grains if i remember right, that could have cracked his noggin! or someone else’s.