Para Bellum
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title says all. Me and some buddies saw a guy at the range who shot a .38+p snubby for the first time. Before that he had fired some shots with a 9x19mm Glock quite well. Then he tried the snubby.
After his first shot with the snubby he stopped and started bleeding from his forehead. It turned out he suffered an approx 5mm cut on his forehead underneath the wolly hat which he wore.
None of us - even he himself - could tell wether
(1) he had held the snubby so weakly that he hit his own forhead with the snubby due to the snubbys recoil (.38+p?)? or
(2) his or some other bullet ricoched off a backstop etc and hit him on the forehead.
At the time he fired his .38+p snubby only a 9x19mm Glock was fired which also could have produced a richochet...
We still don't know how this happened and haven't seen anything alike before in decades.
- Is it at all likely, that somebody holds a .38s+P snubby so badly that it kicks his own forehead and makes it bleed?
- Is it at all likely that a bullet(fragment) richochet can hit somebody at a proper range so hard that it produces a 5mm cut trough a wolly hat? And then no fragement is found in the wolly hat or around the guy who got hurt?
After his first shot with the snubby he stopped and started bleeding from his forehead. It turned out he suffered an approx 5mm cut on his forehead underneath the wolly hat which he wore.
None of us - even he himself - could tell wether
(1) he had held the snubby so weakly that he hit his own forhead with the snubby due to the snubbys recoil (.38+p?)? or
(2) his or some other bullet ricoched off a backstop etc and hit him on the forehead.
At the time he fired his .38+p snubby only a 9x19mm Glock was fired which also could have produced a richochet...
We still don't know how this happened and haven't seen anything alike before in decades.
- Is it at all likely, that somebody holds a .38s+P snubby so badly that it kicks his own forehead and makes it bleed?
- Is it at all likely that a bullet(fragment) richochet can hit somebody at a proper range so hard that it produces a 5mm cut trough a wolly hat? And then no fragement is found in the wolly hat or around the guy who got hurt?