Let's be careful out there!

[p35]

I just got back from a backpacking trip. One of the guys who went was hit in the back by a .30 cal bullet earlier this summer. He was out in the woods on another camping trip when this bullet seemingly came out of nowhere and hit him right between the shoulder blade and the spine . Thank God, it was at the end of its trajectory and had so little velocity that it bounced off. Left a nasty mark-he showed us- but they picked the bullet up off the ground. The authorities figure it was fired in the next valley over, barely cleared a ridge, and just kept going until it hit him. He never heard the shot.

If that bullet had been going a little faster, he would have left a widow and two young teenage kids. KNOW YOUR BACKSTOP!

 

[dm1333]

I've had a couple of near death experiances lately

Two bad accidents on the highway, one of them caused by gangbangers chasing each other and brandishing weapons here in lovely NorCal. Imagine that! Thank god for ABS and the triple disc brakes on my Harley. I just went back east for a death in my family and am going back again for a second funeral. Your friend sounds very lucky. Where was he camping?

 

[P95Carry]

Oh so true - the final potential range from an HV rifle is massive and even if at end of trajectory - the possibility for harm is always there. Your buddy was very lucky - goes without saying.

Rule 4 - every time. Sadly some folks out hunting give little or no thought to the final resting place of a wild shot - and even worse some will fire actually high, with no regard for where the bullet goes - trusting to luck.

I have missed shots many times - due to a split second decision based on not knowing the distant safety factors - and so better the lost shot than harm to someone a long ways off. You just never know.

You cannot call the bullet back!

 

[p35]

dm1333- this was in Oregon.