Erik M
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Like most have stated I have never been hit directly, I have been hit by splatter several times.
has anyone ever been hit by a bullet ricochet?
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kidcoltoutlaw
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I got hit by a bounce back from close range rifle round almost a month ago and it is still not healed up. It made a real mess,
Thanks,keith
Thanks,keith
Today in fact. I went to the range and was having some fun with my Security Six. I was using Blazer jhp's. After about 20 rounds I got zapped on my upper lip with a blob of lead splatter. Hurt like &*$@! Good thing I had my mouth closed or I may of lost a tooth.
Redbeard55
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Ever been hit by a bullet ricochet
If you shoot Steel Plates in competition or for informal practice, it is a common ocurrance. Shooting at steel plates as close as 7 yards. If made properly, the steel plates are tilted slightly backwards. Some are perfectly vertical. Most pistol rounds will fragment and the pieces that bounce back are small fragments. When shooting 158 grain SWCs from a 38, there will be a pile of round, flattened lead below the steel plates. Just weighed a piece last week. 50 grains. This means 108 grains fragmented and the core at the back held together and flattened out. Ricochets are more of a problem when the bullet hits at an angle and bounces off without fragmenting. Have taken a couple small pieces during competition which have drawn the slighest amount of blood. Typically the pieces hit hard enough to feel, but no damage is done.
If you shoot Steel Plates in competition or for informal practice, it is a common ocurrance. Shooting at steel plates as close as 7 yards. If made properly, the steel plates are tilted slightly backwards. Some are perfectly vertical. Most pistol rounds will fragment and the pieces that bounce back are small fragments. When shooting 158 grain SWCs from a 38, there will be a pile of round, flattened lead below the steel plates. Just weighed a piece last week. 50 grains. This means 108 grains fragmented and the core at the back held together and flattened out. Ricochets are more of a problem when the bullet hits at an angle and bounces off without fragmenting. Have taken a couple small pieces during competition which have drawn the slighest amount of blood. Typically the pieces hit hard enough to feel, but no damage is done.
ganymede
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Never been hit with a ricochete but i shot myself in the leg on purpose with a pellot pistol. the bullet was able to stand on it's own in the wound. i have a scar and a discoloration there now. i wont be doing that agian.
I felt a bullet hit so close to my left foot on the range one day that I thought for a second that it had hit me. Other than that growing up in central Louisiana, I remember many times squirrel hunting and being showered with no 6 shot from some one shooting at a squirrel in a tree several yards away. It was fairly common. So much so that I wore a boonie hat and would look down when I heard a shot in my area so as not to get hit in the eye. It was always at low velocity coming down and never a real danger. Didn't like it but was used to it.
S&W-Keeper
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I agree with some of the other posts, go to an indoor range enough, and you will be hit. Number one rule wear safety glasses.
first time i went to an indoor range i was hit by a sprinkle of fragments
shooting a 4" .357 at 15 yds.
... wear glasses.
actually i realized i needed proper glasses,
if i was planning on shooting handguns without scopes
at 25yds
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it is amazing how many of us survive our youths
in spite of guns, cars, testosteron, curiosity and beer ....
shooting a 4" .357 at 15 yds.
... wear glasses.
actually i realized i needed proper glasses,
if i was planning on shooting handguns without scopes
at 25yds
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it is amazing how many of us survive our youths
in spite of guns, cars, testosteron, curiosity and beer ....
SNK SKNR
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Got hit by fragments last time at the range, no big deal. More of a "what the heck was that!?!" than anything.
fireman 9731
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I had a 40gr 22lr slug bounce off a cross-tie and come right back to bounce off my cheek. Left a welt and that was it. Scared me though!
have only been hit by a ricochet from a pellet gun but i did take some damage from ejecting brass. i was probly about 11 or 12 years old and my dad finally let me shoot his 6mm rifle (dont remember the make or model). it had a bad habit of jamming up so we shot it with out the magazine. it was a pretty heavy gun to me so i placed my left palm where the magazine should have been and braced my elbow off of my side. when i fired the empty casing tried to eject but jammed up somehow and got caught on the bolt and when the bolt tried to close, it pushed the casing straight down and into my hand. i now carry a perfectly round 6mm circular scar that always reminds me what the forearm on a rifle is for! remember: maintain a proper stance whenever possible!
The best reason to have eye protection
I've been subject to shrapnel from a couple of 38 super FMJ on steel back when the power factor for USPSA was 175. Once was a ricochet at 15 yds and the copper jacket sliced through my jeans, bounced off the back and burned the back of my thigh while imbedded in my flesh. The second time I was actually close to 75 yds away from a row of poppers when I heard the shots and then shortly took shrapnel by my collarbone that also drew blood.
Last year I was heading out of an inside pistol range riding in the back of a pickup truck when I heard someone engaging a row of steel plates. The next thing I know I feel a big thud and start seeing some stars. I took a 230 gr 45 acp slug to the front of my forehead which drew blood even as I had a hat on. I was ( thankfully wearing glasses) headed to the next stage of this match and had to stop and clean up. I believe whoever was shooting hit a slug on the berm and sent that flying over it (10-12 ft high) into my hard head. I kept that slug as a reminder. I hope that's it for the next 10 or so years. I hope your luck is better than mine.
I've been subject to shrapnel from a couple of 38 super FMJ on steel back when the power factor for USPSA was 175. Once was a ricochet at 15 yds and the copper jacket sliced through my jeans, bounced off the back and burned the back of my thigh while imbedded in my flesh. The second time I was actually close to 75 yds away from a row of poppers when I heard the shots and then shortly took shrapnel by my collarbone that also drew blood.
Last year I was heading out of an inside pistol range riding in the back of a pickup truck when I heard someone engaging a row of steel plates. The next thing I know I feel a big thud and start seeing some stars. I took a 230 gr 45 acp slug to the front of my forehead which drew blood even as I had a hat on. I was ( thankfully wearing glasses) headed to the next stage of this match and had to stop and clean up. I believe whoever was shooting hit a slug on the berm and sent that flying over it (10-12 ft high) into my hard head. I kept that slug as a reminder. I hope that's it for the next 10 or so years. I hope your luck is better than mine.
ganymede
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To see how much it would hurt and how much damage it would cause. I'd like to say it was as a kid, but I was like 21.
moooose102
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well, kind of. i was target shooting this past summer, and one of the bullets i shot at a large dead stump bounced back at me, and hit me in the leg. it did not break the skin, but left a nasty little welt / bruise! i was very fortunate!
bwsmith2850
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Just some fragments of jacket off the backstop. Just a little cut. I managed to chip my Rx glasses with a casing that came straight back on ejection. I started wearing shooting glasses over the real glasses after that. They're so much cheaper to replace.
BADSBSNF81
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Yes, 45 ACP off a steel plate at 25m. Ended up with an orange sized bruise on my chest.
CalebJns
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I took my friend shooting, we were shooting my 1911, and it came back and hit him in the leg! We were shooting into a dirt pile with tires burried in them...it was funny afterward!
James T Thomas
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sort of ricochet
"mbdolfin:"
I had been hit in the throat with a ricochet, or a bullet that hit the ground in front of me and only the rear half entered my neck. I saw the dust kick up when the round hit. It was gravely, hard soil and so, a round that would have killed me otherwise, just buried itself in my neck. I stuck my finger in the hole and felt the back of the bullet, saw no spurting blood, and then began to worry that my head movement might bring what ever sharp edges were on the front of it into contact with my neck arteries.
Not a ricochet, but it scared me too.
"mbdolfin:"
I had been hit in the throat with a ricochet, or a bullet that hit the ground in front of me and only the rear half entered my neck. I saw the dust kick up when the round hit. It was gravely, hard soil and so, a round that would have killed me otherwise, just buried itself in my neck. I stuck my finger in the hole and felt the back of the bullet, saw no spurting blood, and then began to worry that my head movement might bring what ever sharp edges were on the front of it into contact with my neck arteries.
Not a ricochet, but it scared me too.
1SOW
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In a USPSA league shoot, shot 9mm through a silouette target and hit a piece of steel maybe 30' behind the target. The bullet fragged and came 'straight' back and tore two jagged slots in the target from the backside---3 holes with one shot---first was an 'A' .
I haven't been hit, but know several who have.
. I haven't been hit, but know several who have.
ronaldo615
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Been hit many times. I was in an indoor range shooting an AR and something kept hitting my pants leg at the shin. I would stop and see if I could tell where it was comming from. Finally I realized that it was my shots coming off the 100 yard back stop.
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