Ricochet??

[rcmodel]

I consider ricochets completely different then bounce backs.

I have three experiences with bounce backs in my life.

1. Buddy in high school shot a steel bridge beam with a .243 at about 25 yards.
Jacket frag lodged in his left eye and blinded him for life.

2. Another HS friend shot a peice of railroad rail with a 30-06 AP round at about 25 yards.
The steel penetrator bounced straight back, missed his head by maybe 2", and went clear through the rear finder of his 51 Ford sideways!

3. A few years ago, I shot a .45 Colt 255 grain Cowboy Action load into a railroad tie backstop at about 15 yards.
Bullet bounced back and tore the heel stack off my good pair of cowboy boots!
It almost knocked me down.

The best eye protection would have done no good had it hit me in the head!!

rc

 

[LoneGoose]

And somewhere on Youtube is the guy who shot a steel plate with steel goose loads. Steel shot rebounds with great momentum. He shot a tooth out.

 

[outlawjw]

I use 55 gallon plastic drums filled with sand & the top hole I cut in them to shovel the sand in ,open. It rains in them keep in the sand packed bullets up to 300 weather by enter but don't exit. I have two rows staggered to keep a full drum thickness in front of every bullet . Six years on one set of drums , I need to turn one a quarter turn now .but so far no escapes . Used plastic drums $10:00 each I use 6 & they can be stacked.

 

[outlawjw]

It is my home range so it only gets maybe 20,000 rounds a year from myself & freinds

 

[FiveStrings]

Prior experience with the M240 MG tends to put me on the side of YugoRPK - most stuff richochets. You learn a lot about the behavior of bullets watching tracers.