Appalachiannative
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A short safety film made in the 1980's was part of the hunters safety course I took at age 16 to get my first hunting license. I remember in the film there was a whole segment about .22 LR. The film included a demonstration meant to poke holes in a lot of the misconceptions concerning the power of .22lr or rather the potential for injury in which they fired a round from a bolt action rifle from a short distance using it to penetrate 4 pieces of 2x4s. From this the narrator finished with "never say well it's just a .22". Any how another one of the things mentioned but not demonstrated was the idea that shooting shooting a body of water is dangerous (especially with a .22lr) because rounds can allegedly bounce off the surface of the water. When I was a kid my old man would throw cans in the river and shoot at them with a 9mm and nothing bad ever happened. Now I'm not advocating any kinda stuff like that because I can't stand littering and I lose enough lead in the water fishing. I'm just curious has anyone here personally witnessed a round bounce off water?