How many times have you been hit by ricochets?

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My landlord is going to have fun cleaning all the BBs out of the garage when I move out.
That probably wasn't the smartest idea I've ever had, but I never had any issues (I only had the thing for a week).
 
I was hit in the thigh by a .22 bullet that came out after I shot out the casehead through the case mouth of a .357 sig at 50 feet.
 
Never have, but did have part of a plywood target come bac at me. only left a small red mark on my leg.
 
Yes, once. Where it happened is what makes it interesting. In 1982 I was on the rifle team for the University of Hawaii. I think everybody on the team was ROTC. Back then, there was a range on the University of Hawaii Manoa campus! Can you imagine? The range was back-stopped by a rock cliff. So we were on the range and there was a guy there with his AR. He was on the far right lane and started blasting away at a lizard (gecko) on the cliff wall over on the far left. I heard the bullet bounce off the side wall and it hit me in the chest. I was wearing a shooting jacket and barely felt it. I picked up the mangled piece of lead and put into my earplug container. For many years I showed it to people, telling them I got shot "with this."

They closed that range shortly after--something about a need for cleaning up lead. I'm sure it never re-opened.
 
twice. once with a .22 shooting at a turtle in a creek bullet must have hit a rock or something and the second time with a .223 hit me in the left hip left a nice bruise
 
I do about once a month at pin night. I have a jar where I keep them. I have 8 so far I took a few .45 to the chest and a .357 a 9mm in the leg and a few .40's here and there.

My friend had a .40 miss his left eye by a inch. He now wears a set of goggles over his glasses.
 
My friends and I used to shoot ou bb guns at each other but it was always below the waist. I know it was a bad idea but i wasnt the one with the scar ;)

Other than that I have never been hit with a bullet. now shrapnel from improperly detonated fireworks is a different story.
 
Personally I have not been hit by ricochett, But I have been "rained on by shot from the trap range while I was on the rifle range, felt like small hail.
Also, I don't know if this counts, My dad pushed an empty 30.06 shell with a new primer installed, into a cardboard box, Then he shot it with a BB gun, The primer blew out and hit him in the side(just grazed him, but left a scar)
 
Please wear a bright garment so we will know that it is you, a sign would also be good
 
I used to shoot at an abandoned rock quarry before it was annexed into the city; I never observed back-spatter more than twenty feet (mostly shooting .22s at well over 20 feet).
 
I want to know what that guy was shooting with the .50 that it launched it right back at him.
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It sounded like they had said
"We're not doing that anymore."
"Nope, no more iron."

So I assume they were shooting iron, most likely an engine block if I had to guess.
 
twice like 25 years ago when I was young :)
gravel pit shooting
one from a 45 one from a 223 both hurt a lot the 45 we were shooting a car up and I was about 3 feet away from the wheel when it was hit with a 45 and it bounced into my ankle making a mess of it :) as it was more a glancing angle ricochet

the other was about 50 feet away from a metal railroad rail and I actually saw like in slow motion but also very fast a shiny thing coming back toward me and what felt a burn in my forehead lucky it was the jacket only and not the bullet but it stuck in the rim of my (hat)
left a brass line on the visor
lucky I was 1/4 inch lower I would be blind in one eye
within a minute a gold ball size welt was on my forehead :)

ahhh to be young and invincible again and of course very stupid when I look back on it now ;)
 
Been hit by a few bounce backs while at pin shoots before. Also caught a round of hardball in the crotch one time. My advice, always wear your ear and eye protection of course, but a cup don't hurt either!!!!
 
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