DEA Agent: Suspect Fired At Me, Bullet Went Down My Barrel

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Link/Pics.

EDIT: Link to local news story with video. Looks like it disabled the gun.

Short version: Undercover DEA agent gets shot at, suspect's bullet enters agent's gun. Link is to a Ripley's entry. Yes, I realize the veracity of the source, but have no reason to doubt the pics/trivia included. There's another mention further down of an older incident in which an LEO shot down the barrel of someone he was attempting to arrest, jamming the suspect's gun.

The man this happened to called it a "1 in 20 million" shot. Anyone else ever heard of a shot like this? What "1 in 20 million" shots have you witnessed or pulled the trigger on?

Mods, I found this very fascinating but if it's not practical enough for the forum please delete at your discretion.
 
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If that is true, I see a future Mythbusters episode in the making!
 
Wow. I never would have thought of that happening. Lucky guy.

Anybody else wondering if the gun still works?
 
I've seen a rifle musket with enemy bullet down the barrel from a Civil War battlefield with thousands of soldiers shooting at each other as fast as they could muzzle load.

I have seen a S&W with a bullet hole in the trigger guard where a crook shot at a cop and hit his pistol. The LEO's trigger finger was kind of mangled but not lost. Fortunately the criminal fled rather than following up his advantage.
 
Just within the last 6 months or so, I saw somewhere on the net, a pic of a revolver with a bullet jammed into the front of one of the cylinder holes. Story was much like this one, someone shot at someone else who was pointing he revolver at him, and the bullet lodging in the exposed cylinder jamming the revolver. Wondered at the time if there was a live round in that particular hole, but if so it did not look as if it had detonated. Shockingly, I dont believe everything I see on the internet, but this looked plausible to me.
 
The scene in several books and movies (including "Saving Private Ryan") where the sniper shoots through the other snipers scope is supposedly based on a true event.
 
I believe this was an episode on Mythbusters...
Obviously they did the Hathcock sniper shot test. I believe they also did a shot down the trooper's revolver barrel test.

Jim
 
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same as i tell my students....bullet has to go somewhere

so as well as the front sight is, giving it a wish on its way can't hurt.
 
On a range cleanup day a guy found a rifle bullet through a shotgun slug. I really wanted that but he decided to keep it. I've always wondered if they hit in the air or on the ground.
 
ZeSpectre said:
On a range cleanup day a guy found a rifle bullet through a shotgun slug. I really wanted that but he decided to keep it. I've always wondered if they hit in the air or on the ground.
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If they'd collided in the air, presuming it was a standard soft lead slug, the rifle bullet would've obliterated the slug.
 
If I recall correctly, Mythbusters already did the recreation of the 'bullet up the bore'.
I am certain they did the recreation of the 'bullet through the Russian sniper scope' (Mosin)...because I have watched that episode several times.
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I remember seeing video footage of a crew of French GIGN counter-terrorist troops retaking an Air France flight from 1994 that had been hijacked and taken to Algeria. Anyway the same thing happened and it was caught on video. The terrorists brought it back to France and they re-took the plane. Terrorist fired at the French Soldier, bullet went down the barrel and ignited the cartridge in the chamber.

Pretty weird to watch.

@ 1:55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7a5D3sMJKM&sns=em

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http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=4999
 
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So, what happen to the hand that was holding the pistol that caught the bullet?

Shouldn't this story start of with "Now, this ain't no B.S." All my fishing stories start like that.
 
Ranger Roberts said:
If that is true, I see a future Mythbusters episode in the making!
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Great idea. I'll submit it to the team.

The scene in several books and movies (including "Saving Private Ryan") where the sniper shoots through the other snipers scope is supposedly based on a true event.
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Mythbusters actually covered this one. IIRC, it was determined to have been nearly impossible due to the gasses and lens design. They fired multiple shots (into a new scope each time obviously), and couldn't get it to work. They did allow for a once in a million type possibility.
 
I seem to recall that the issue with the original mythbusters test was that they were using more modern scopes that have more lenses in them than the scope Gunny Hathcock shot through.

Did they redo the tests with the mosin scope?
 
Did they redo the tests with the mosin scope?
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Yes, they did.
And the bullet went through the scope.

It would also have worked on the first test if they had done it at several hundred yards using FMJ military ammo like Hathcock did.
At that range, the bullet would have slowed down and been flying perfectly stable.

They shot the first test at about 20 yards using soft-point ammo.

Of course the bullets blew up on multiple layers of glass.

rc
 
Mythbusters "backwards bullet" confirmed that a suspect's bullet can lodge backward in a revolver cylinder... I doubt they'll revisit the myth.
 
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