AngryBaker
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I had a strange occurrence at the range today. I am looking for some possible explanations.
Today me and my dad decided it was a nice day for some plinking nothing too ambitious, just shooting some steel and a little paper punching. I was using a Remington Target Master single shot rifle. I decided that I was going to shoot a little steel using .22 shorts (I was using Remington "Golden Bullets" 29gr .22 short the target was at 45 yards).
I fired my first shot, the round struck the target just as it should an the steel target reacted just as it normally does. I loaded a second round and fired it also hit the target as soon as I heard the round strike the target, my dad said "ouch" I looked over and he was brushing his neck off he said watch where your brass is going (he thought I was firing my 10/22. I said I wasn't I got up and walked over to look at his neck I noticed he was bleeding, the bleeding was not severe but enough to be noticed.
I handed him a wet rag and he took care of the minor injury, we both agreed a piece of jacket had come back from the target, this had never happened before with .22Lr even with high velocity ammo. After clearing our weapons I proceeded to walk up to the target and noticed something weird. The steel target was dimpled exactly where I had placed the rounds on 2 different targets.
The dimples the rounds caused where about 2mm deep caused by .22 shorts (29gr Remington "Golden Bullets" .22shorts) I had previously fired at least 100 rounds at that same target on the same day and probably 500 rounds on those targets in the time I have had them. (Mostly WWB and Federal bulk pack ammo).
These are the rounds in question.
This has never happened before I have fired many different types of rounds at these targets including but not limited to CCI Stingers, CCI velocitors, WWB 40gr HP .22lr, Federal bulk pack HP, CCI .22 shorts, Remington "Golden Bullets" 40 gr HP .22LR and I never had either the target damaged or jacket material reflected at me or anyone else. I also am fortunate enough to have pictures of jacket material from the round in question They were stuck in my dad's neck.
The two rounds I fired that day were Remington "Golden Bullets" 29gr .22 short (905 FPS) and WWB .22LR (1280 FPS)
I am glad nothing bad happened I thank god we all had our safety glasses on and nothing came back and hit someone in the eye. The speed of the jacketed material that came back could have easily taken out an eye and would have done permanent damage.
First of all I just wanted to post this as a heads up to be careful with these rounds in question for some reason these seem to dimple targets rated for .22 LR
Second of all I am wondering if anyone can provide an explanation for why either of these things occurred how can a round that weighs less and travels significantly slower dimple steel? While the faster heavier rounds simply splatters.
I feel truly lucky nothing serious happened, it was a real wake up call to make sure that I and every one around me is wearing eye protection.
Today me and my dad decided it was a nice day for some plinking nothing too ambitious, just shooting some steel and a little paper punching. I was using a Remington Target Master single shot rifle. I decided that I was going to shoot a little steel using .22 shorts (I was using Remington "Golden Bullets" 29gr .22 short the target was at 45 yards).
I fired my first shot, the round struck the target just as it should an the steel target reacted just as it normally does. I loaded a second round and fired it also hit the target as soon as I heard the round strike the target, my dad said "ouch" I looked over and he was brushing his neck off he said watch where your brass is going (he thought I was firing my 10/22. I said I wasn't I got up and walked over to look at his neck I noticed he was bleeding, the bleeding was not severe but enough to be noticed.
I handed him a wet rag and he took care of the minor injury, we both agreed a piece of jacket had come back from the target, this had never happened before with .22Lr even with high velocity ammo. After clearing our weapons I proceeded to walk up to the target and noticed something weird. The steel target was dimpled exactly where I had placed the rounds on 2 different targets.
The dimples the rounds caused where about 2mm deep caused by .22 shorts (29gr Remington "Golden Bullets" .22shorts) I had previously fired at least 100 rounds at that same target on the same day and probably 500 rounds on those targets in the time I have had them. (Mostly WWB and Federal bulk pack ammo).
These are the rounds in question.
This has never happened before I have fired many different types of rounds at these targets including but not limited to CCI Stingers, CCI velocitors, WWB 40gr HP .22lr, Federal bulk pack HP, CCI .22 shorts, Remington "Golden Bullets" 40 gr HP .22LR and I never had either the target damaged or jacket material reflected at me or anyone else. I also am fortunate enough to have pictures of jacket material from the round in question They were stuck in my dad's neck.
The two rounds I fired that day were Remington "Golden Bullets" 29gr .22 short (905 FPS) and WWB .22LR (1280 FPS)
I am glad nothing bad happened I thank god we all had our safety glasses on and nothing came back and hit someone in the eye. The speed of the jacketed material that came back could have easily taken out an eye and would have done permanent damage.
First of all I just wanted to post this as a heads up to be careful with these rounds in question for some reason these seem to dimple targets rated for .22 LR
Second of all I am wondering if anyone can provide an explanation for why either of these things occurred how can a round that weighs less and travels significantly slower dimple steel? While the faster heavier rounds simply splatters.
I feel truly lucky nothing serious happened, it was a real wake up call to make sure that I and every one around me is wearing eye protection.