huaco
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This post is a result of some others I've seen here that brought this event to mind but the event did not seem to fit those threads. Several years ago my wife and I and another couple were spending a weekend at a farmhouse about 90 miles west of here where we had a picnic table and a berm and could sit out behind the house and shoot when we wanted to. Bill had bought a package of cheap orange golf balls to drive out into the field just for fun. We shot paper targets and swingers mostly but occasionally came up with other targets and one of the golf balls ended up against the berm. Bill who is a very good with a pistol shot the golf ball with a 357 magnum round from a wonderful Colt Python he owns. It just disappeard when he shot it and we assumed it had bounced off into the field but the next morning I was fooling around at the berm alone and noticed a spec of orange in the dirt at the top of the berm. I scraped away some dirt and came up with the whole golf ball. It was intact but not quite round and had a tiny hole as if someone had stuck it with an ice pick. When I rolled it around it was obvious that there was a bullet inside. I cut the golf ball in half with a knife and a lot of effort and sure enough the nicely expanded bullet was inside. The golf ball was not like any I had ever cut open in my younger years. It was filled with something like very dense styrafoam. The bullet was about 3/4 of the way through it. I can only explain the tiny hole by assuming that the skin deformed a lot and the bullet went through the very stretched skin which left the tiny hole when the skin returned to it's natural state. I can only explain the fact that the golf ball captured a 357 magnum round by assuming that the bullet imparted a large part of it's kinetic energy into the golf ball as kitetic energy and then the soft earth decelerated the whole mess in a few inches. I've often wondered if this could ever be repeated. Anybody ever seen anything like this?
