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This at least was a fluke, I think. I am ashamed to admit my mistake; I do it in the hope that someone will avoid what I did. I was always a revolver person, bought a Desert Eagle in .41 mag when they first came out. Never had an auto pistol before and was much disappointed in the trigger pull. One day down in my basement next to my reloading room I picked up the pistol, pulled back the slide to see if it was loaded, dropped the magazine and proceeded to check the trigger pull. Guess what, bullet was chambered when I pulled slide, I aimed at the basement wall, thinking the gun was empty, pulled the trigger, blew out about two inches of concrete and the bullet came back between my legs and just missed my jewels. Maybe dumb people like me should be taken out of the gene pool, at least the pistol tried to. I can tell you this, I have a lot more respect for all guns now, to me they are always loaded. I have never told this to anyone, but if I was stupid someone else may be also. I now pay attention to my backstop, where my lead may end up, and to my loading and making damn sure every gun is empty when not in use. I am in no position to be the preacher, all I can say is be careful.
 
There are other liks to the side of the video that are very similar. One in particular has a guy (supposedly) catch a 270 ricochet with the arm. Thing is, it looks to be at the exact same range.
 
Talk about "I didn't know it was loaded!" I was setting up a sight on a new bow in my livingroom. I loaded an arrow and pulled back using a trigger release with my finger BEHIND and AGAINST the trigger! When I move my finger away from the trigger I shot my livingroom wall with a $10. carbon fiber arrow!
That day I realized WE are dangerous NOT the weapons!!!
Now when my wife says "Take it outside" I say "yes ma'am"
BANEK
 
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When I was 13 or so, and new nothing about guns my dad and I went bird hunting with some business associates. Now my dad isn't/wasn't a gun person but had some around the house. A S&W 357, a Remington 243, and a Sears 12 gauge pump. I finally came to think that he really just took them on trade over the years, and didn't know their value so held onto them. He'd trade with you sometimes just to have something to do when he was bored. But he was generally good at it, and made money in the long run.

Anyway, afterward he hands me the shotgun to unload and put up in his closet. My sister is watching their TV in the parents bedroom. Problem is that neither my dad nor myself knew how to push the little button to release the pump and eject an unfired round. I could see that there weren't any shells in the chamber so I of course finally just pulled the trigger. No ricochet, but I blew a hole in the closet door, and some of my mom's dresses.

Bad part is that it turned my mom off guns for ever. She keeps one revolver for defense because she now lives alone, but I can't get her to practice or anything. I buy her a new box of good self defense ammo every 2 or 3 years, and let it go, but it bothers to this day that the fear from that stops her from being truly prepared. :(
 
I was hit by bounceback IN the jewels RO'ing a bowling pin match. The ultra light 38Spl loads the guy was using barely moved the pins, and once bounced back...to drop me like a rock. Wasn't funny then, but man, is,it,hilarious in retrospect, me on the ground clutching myself, the peanut gallery roaring, (it was so slow they could see it), and this poor guy apologising over and over again.
I still have that bullet somewhere...
 
The only time I've seen something like that was with a .45 acp out of a 1911 shot at a cinder-block wall. Haven't liked 'em since.

neener-neener. :D

Go ahead, die-hards. :p

Les
 
I'm amazed that you people actually choose not to see that these youtube episodes are not flukes but setup scenes for sensationalism. Yes ricochets happen but these are so obvious setups.:rolleyes:
 
About 10 years ago whilst out shooting a .357 Magnum Marlin lever gun, I shot a bottle off an old (probably 100 years old or so) Bois D'Arc fence post at about 30 yards. I shot a bit too low, missing the bottle, and caught a very small piece of the shattered bullet right below my left eye. I don't recall any blood, but I was quite surprised indeed. I've had plenty of ricochets over the years, especially shooting snakes in water, but never once had one come back towards me.


-Matt
 
I had a 30-30 ricochet come by my head when I was young. Kind of scares the S*** out of you. Smartens you up real fast.
 
The only time I've seen something like that was with a .45 acp out of a 1911 shot at a cinder-block wall. Haven't liked 'em since.
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Maybe some day, with some therapy, you can come to like cinder block walls? :)
 
ricochets happen, some are dumb, some are 1 in a million occurrences.

Even I have had a nasty bruise from what I think was a 10mm Auto during a steel-match. a fragment of lead (about a third of a bullet I guess) struck me hard in the lower leg. It happens, that's why you always wear eye protection
 
Maybe some day, with some therapy, you can come to like cinder block walls?
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I knew the cinder-block-wall-defense-lobby would be coming after me.

Les
 
Ever shot a tree at about 15 feet with a shotgun?
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No, since:
* No tree has ever attacked me
* I have never wanted to kill, clean and eat a tree
* I have no desire to mount a tree head on my wall

So, since none of those apply, I have not shot a tree with a shotgun. :)
 
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