Coolest or wildest thing you've ever seen a round do.

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I was shooting at an indoor range. The range had a target holder which was a massive piece of triangular iron that came down almost to the top of the head of a B-27 target.

I was practicing with just my off hand and trying for a head shot. I must have shot high and hit the bottom edge of this target gadget.

There was a shower of sparks and the target was sliced in half diagonally from the center of the target iron. Half fluttered to the floor. It was on fire.

The guy next to me wanted to know what round that was. A one stop shot.

I have seen people shoot down the pulley wires a couple of times.
 
>The "Black Talon" does not rotate like a buzzsaw.

Mallninja,

If it's fired out of a rifled barrel, it pretty much does, likewise any other bullet fired from a rifled bore. You can use the rate of twist of the barrel and the velocity of the round to approximate the rate of rotation (which diminishes at a slower rate than velocity) over distance or time. It's often pretty surprising.
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Oh25shooter,

Don't want to burst your bubble but he was likely using a shot load... an old trick among trick shooters. Cooper did it once that I know of with a solid bullet tho... .

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An acquaintance decided to see how bad his new Browning auto in .300 Win Mag was one afternoon. He set up a piece of 1" steel plate at about 25 yards and centerpunched it with one round. It didn't penetrate but most of the jacket came back and buried itself in his chin. It almost came right back down the line of the bore.

lpl/nc
 
One night at practice I pushed a .357 sig casing into a piece of cardboard, stepped back 50 feet and blew out the case head with my .22LR (shown below). The bullet flew back and struck me in the leg. It hurt a little bit, but didn't leave any mark. I still have the remains of that casing though... :D
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I got shot with my own .22 bullet. I was in the canyons of boyles acres in NM and fired a round at a rat that I saw under the underbrush. It killed the rat, hit the rock, went back through the rat and hit me. They gave me shots for that one :D.

Wayne
 
Nothing too impressive for me.

The best I can remember is when I was 9 or 10 years old, me and my grandpa were shooting his Marlin 60 .22 at a cardboard target stapled to a wood post. I dont know whos shot it was, but one of the bullets grazed the post about one inch in, so you could see the bullet path, and at the end, was the bullet. It looked like we sectioned the post in half, and penitration was more than I though the little .22 would get.

Also, during the summer, I was shooting a pop cans that were laying on the ground with my .22 rifle. On one of the shots, I heard the bullet go through the can, Isaw dirt behind the can kick up, and about half a second second later we heard a loud WHACK! from the same bullet hitting a tree in the woods 100 yards of so behind the can.

I would be that almost every other caliber would do the same becuase of the sharp angle, but I thought it was pretty weird.
 
My son inherited a RG .22 snubbie from his grandpap. Story was greatgrandpa carried it when he was a mine guard back in the day. So my boy picked that over a S&W Nickled .38. Anyway, we shot a few rounds into 2 liter plastic pop bottles against a bank. We live in the country. I was standing behind him 15 yds or so from the bottles when something smacked me on my skinny collar bone. Had to be a richochett (sp?), but no damage though it did smart.
Don't guess we've shot the junker since.
 
In '73 I decided there were too many trees to cut around in my yard. I cut one, cut it up for firewood. As I was splitting the larger pieces, I spotted a 9mm size bullet. It was about four inches deep. So it was more like where it turned up rather than what I saw it do. That chunk of wood hangs in my loading area now.
Mark.
 
.450 Marlin shooting at 2 stacked steel plates at the indoor range.

Fired the shot. Big cloud of sparks, and one of the fluorescent lights fell to the ground in pieces as the plates leapt backwards and fell off the dolly we used to hold them up :) it didn't penetrate, just left a 1/2" hole in the plate :)
 
Imagine a barrel with a 12" twist, like many pistols. A bullet going 1000fps down that barrel will rotate 1000 times per second, or 60,000rpm. There's a buzzsaw for ya!

Couple strange ones. Used to shoot at a local toilet, er, range in Milpitas that got cleaned annually, needed or not. Some guy was shooting steel core ammo of some sort and the sparks from the backstop managed to catch the accumulated powder in the bullet trap on fire. The guy behind the counter didn't seem to impressed, just told us to take a break if the smoke got too bad. Haven't been back since.

Was shooting lead 44Mag mag ammo at another range and hit an edge or something odd on the backstop and the bullet came back at me, only it was flat and spinning like a Frisbee from hell. It wound up embedded in the wall behind me. :what:

Have shot steel plates at 10 yards with a 357; quit doing that after I dug a chunk of jacket out of my hand.

At my club we have stadium lights on the top of the shooting area. At night with these on, one can see all the subsonic-ish bullets as they go downrange. It really is interesting to see the football trajectory of 45ACP fired at 100 yard targets. You can see the lights on this pic, taken from the top of the rifle range backstop:

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Its also fun to watch shooters pound the 100 yard steel targets at night with some brands of surplus 7.62x39, the sparks are like Independence Day. :cool:
 
Most interesting projectile behavior I've seen was in the Navy (South African variety). We did a night shoot with a frigate, a couple of missile boats, and a minesweeper. Guns ranged from 4.5" British twin-turret on the frigate, through 76mm. Oto Melara cannon on the missile boats, through 40mm. Bofors on the frigate and minesweeper, through 20mm. Oerlikon on all craft, through .50 BMG on the minesweeper. We were shooting at a towed canvas target about 3 miles away with the big stuff, and at floating drums about a mile off with the 20mm. and .50 BMG.

What was amazing was the behavior of the big shells (4.5" and 76mm.) when they hit the canvas target. Most would simply make a hole and dive into the water: but some of them, for whatever reason, would suddenly jink skywards in a big way. I've no idea whether they were ricocheting off the water beyond the target, or somehow clipping the target frame, but it was quite spectacular. In particular, the explosive shells would make a skyburst about 1,000 feet up in the air... very spectacular!
 
Shooting some military surplus .38 Special tracer ammo. From a snub they look like a roman candle ball only slower.

Shot some at a log across a frozen creek.
The bullet glanced off the log, penetrated the ice, came to an abrupt stop and continued to burn for about 5 more seconds.



By the way I've seen the split the bullet on the axe trick done with asprin tablets. Definitely NOT a shot load.



Yeah, yeah, yeah, a bullet from an M4 is spinning at over 250,000 rpm.

But if that bullet goes clean through you it still will have spun only twice. Not exactly a buzzsaw after all.

And if it hasn't encountered a target, at 100 yards it will still be spinning over 200,000 rpm.



These look pretty wild & cool to me.

Through rubber bands.
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Splitting a playing card.
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I've seen a round hit my wife- twice!

We were at a family camp in northern WI, and I had tired of shotgunning, so I asked if there was anywhere around to shoot handguns. Indeed, there was an old, generally unused rifle range complete with backstop and steel plates. We were at 15-20 yards, and my .45s were hitting the plates and cascading to the sides. We couldn't see my wifes .38s, though. Well, she was probably 6 or 8 cylinders into a box when we were 'racing' on the two plates. "OW!" she says, and shows me a bruise on her belly... we chalk it up to a fluke and keep shooting (she's a trooper!) Well, let's just say that after shooting herself a second time, she really wasn't interested in shooting any more.

WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES!!!
 
My dad was shooting some plates with his .357 and I was behind just watching. The range we were at is totally lined with trees. A few of the bullets had apparently bounced off of a plate and hit the trees. BOOM, and then a branch falls from about 30 feet above and 20 feet to the right. Took out a branch about an inch thick. Few shots later BOOM, another branch WAY downrange falls from a tree. Didn't take much convincing to get me to wear eye protection.
 
I shot various caliber rounds at some kevlar fabric over a block of gelatin. The wild thing was that the rounds bounced back. The flattened bullet landed by my feet. good thing they were very slow and were just noticeable.
 
Does this [round] passing through the digestive tract of a 7 month old Boxer count?

Not only does it count but it's possibly the thread winner so far. It's also kinda gross. Good work. How's the pup?
 
I have seen a couple things that were pretty cool.

I used to shoot BB guns in our backyard, usually at coke cans and such. I had one of those 10 pump pellet rifles that were pretty popular when I was a kid. My brother had shown me some hollowpoint pellets, and told me how they worked.

I didn't have any of those, so I just turned a pellet backwards. It was the thinner of the types of pellets, since those deformed better.

So the first time I tried it, I set out a filled coke can about 25 yards away, pumped up the rifle, and took aim. Upon firing, the can just absolutely exploded with water going everywhere. I walked out to check on the target, and a 1/3 or more of the can had been peeled back opening the can almost all the way.

Another cool thing was shooting my SKS at an empty coke can that was rolling down a hillside. I fired several rounds, most of them hitting the can as it rolled down the hill, and with only a couple rounds left, all of a sudden the can exploded into little pieces, and shot 25 yards away. I figured out later that I probably hit the dirt just in front of the can, and the shrapnel from the rocks tore up the can. But it was pretty cool.

I.G.B.
 
I have a couple from when we were firing off some Stingers that were past their shelf life during a live fire exercise in Germany. On one the launch motor functioned as it should have, kicked the missile out about 25 meters but the flight motor didn't engage, well not exactly when it should have anyway. We watched the missile drop like a rock and then saw the flight motor engage just as it hit the ground, it then proceeded to skip across the ground downrange, cleared the embankment at the end of the range, and then detonated in the North Sea. We had a few that launched as they were supposed to, then lose lock on their targets and do all sorts of crazy manuevers in the air. We also had one that launched, went about 100 meters then dropped straight out of the sky. After waiting about half an hour I went out with the EOD team to try and locate it so they could destroy it, well turns out it decided to land in a pond and nobody wanted to go swimming to look for it lol. In this situation we had to resort to bringing out the non-standard Army issue pond drainer, AKA the UH-60 Blackhawk :evil: It's amazing how fast all of the water can be blown out of a pond when one is hovering 10 feet above it :D
 
Had a friend years ago who shot groundhogs at long range. Decided to have buddy shoot home movies (like on film, remember?). Shot a 'chuck about 400yds and the 'chuck went airborne. They finally figured Doug had hit just a tad low and the chuck had been sitting on a rock. They spent the rest of the summer looking for 'hogs sitting on rocks.
 
...passing through the digestive tract of a 7 month old Boxer count?

Now that's what I call a "boxer-primed" cartridge.... And certainly not reloadable

Sorry.

But seriously folks, I was shooting at a gravel pit once and we didn't have much in the way of paper targets. So we started digging around to find stuff to shoot. I found one of those Coleman-type propane canisters that I assumed was empty...the bullet struck the side of the canister, which imparted a spin as the remaining gas escaped, and launched the "rocket" about 60 feet into the air.
 
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Don't know how true it actually is, and it's not really a bullet story, but sounds funny...

A friend that was in the military told me a story of one of their EOD guys placing a little dab of some kind of explosive on the back of a 25m target. Nothing much, just enough to make a lot of noise. Said that the shooter about wet his pants when it went off.

Brad
 
Just the other day I was out in the desert doing some target shooting. There was an old stump about 5 ft tall. Shot it about chest high with my .45 from about 20 feet and the FMJ came right back and hit me in the forehead! I saw it coming, nothing I could do. Left a nice bruise. An inch or so lower, would have put my eye out. Really shook me up. :eek:
 
Fun & Stupid Things..

On the funside.. Shake up cans of soda (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) and shoot away. :)

Stupid.. (This was way back when we were young AND stupid. It's a wonder we didn't fry ourselves.) Light a candle and place a container of gas (or gas and soapflakes mixed) just in front. Stand back a bit and fire away. "Whooophhhh". :uhoh: Sure does light up the night.

Talk about lighting up the night. As a Vietnam vet seeing "Puff The Magic Dragon" lighting up the night! Way to go "Puff"! Now THAT's cool! :cool:

FireStar_M40
 
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