Hit by a ricochet!!

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Sgt.K

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Hello,

Let me say I wasn't injured, just
a small bruise.

Last night my brother and I went
to the indoor range (25 yrds). We were just plinking around with .22's.

We had been there a while and the
place had cleared out. Just two
other people using another lane.

So I was standing at an unoccupied lane (it was the one closed to the left wall) facing the table,
loading a Ruger Mark II mag. The guy in the lane down from us fired a shot. In retrospect, time just
seemed to slow down (did I
subconsciously know something was going to happen?). Suddenly I feel something strike me on the front of my left hip where the crease of your leg meets your torso. Yea, missed _them_ by about 3". :eek: I looked down and their was a deformed 230 gr. .45 ACP bullet on the floor. Picked it up carefully (still hot) and the
side of it was flattened.

When I told my wife she suggested
I should start wearing my cup
again!! :) :)

This ever happened to anyone else?

Sgt.K
 
Not hit by a ricochet...but got pelted by ejected .308 brass. That hurt, including 2 which went down my blouse.
Lemme tell ya...white girls CAN dance :)

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
Shot myself in the leg with a .38 Special wadcutter when I was in the Army. Repaired a S&W Airweight snubbie for a buddy and took it out to the range to function test it. After a few rounds at Army wood silhouettes, I aimed at one of the wooden posts that holds the targets up, just to see how far a .38 wadcutter would go into the wood. Distance was about ten feet, the projectile bounced back from the wood (making a nice dent) and hit me square in the leg. Didn't break the cammies or the skin, but hurt like hell. I had a nasty bruise for a week or so.

I probably couldn't repeat that shot if I tried.
 
I've had a hit by a flattened lead bullet "spall" I think its called at an indoor range.. velocity was like some one THREW it at me.. looked quizzicly at it for a minute before i reaized what it was. Didin't hurt but made me think. sThat range does not allow half-jacketed round becuase they can seperate and ricochet.

At the same indoor range my brother was shooting in the stall next to me with my 45 when a piece of brass went forward and down into the barrier in front of the stalls which was canted at a 45 degree angle, the brass bounce into MY stall and hit me square on the nosebridge breaking the skin (thank god for safty glasses). I've been hit by brass before.. but not like that. was in the bathroom for 10 minutes getting the bleeding to stop.

Dr.Rob
 
I know just how ya feel guys..I was shooting at some steel targets about a year ago and had a ricochet come back and graze me on the inside of my left calf...just a little burning cut...
the funny..or should I say weird thing is ..it perfectly matches a scar I got when I was five years old...here's the story...My Dad was a Detective on Roanoke VA. ..and I was playing out in the yard with a jar of nails and a claw hammer driving nails into the ground and everything I could find to put my newly discovered talent to work when in the bottom of the Jar, what did I find?...a .38 spl. wadcutter..hmmm....I thought...you guessed it...I got a Brick and laid that baby on it and WHAM!!!....smacked that sucker...One piece of it went into my right calf...one piece went into my chest and it blew my knuckle off of my fore finger....
Soooo...MAKE SURE YOUR AMMO IS OUT OF YOUR KIDS REACH..!

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A MASTER OF HIS ART REVEALS IT IN EVERYTHING HE DOES
 
Sarge - A very similar thing happened to me about 3 months ago. I was at a bowling pin shoot and was watching one event when a .45 FMJ came rolling up and tapped my foot. It was hot so I knew it had just been fired. If I hadn't been standing there it probably would have stopped about 1 foot later anyway, it was barely moving. But you have to wonder if it had hit something just a little squarer and bounced back just a little faster??? That's why even the lookers-on have to wear safety glasses.
 
I was scoring targets at Camp Perry back in '85, and I got hit by a piece of one of those wooden target scoring spindles that was hit dead center. I think it was when the shooters were at the 300 line. Later on during the 1000 yd "Rattle Battle" the guy next to me was hit by a bullet fragment that was the result of a bullet hitting the edge of the metal target frame. :eek:
He got carried out on a stretcher, but he was "talking", however I won't repeat what he was saying. ;)
Even at 1000 yds, those things still pack a wallop!

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We ARE the Militia!
 
I was fixin' to tell my little story, then realized it had paled in comparison.

Damn glad no one was seriously hurt there.

Someone was looking down on ya pals!!

Best Regards,
Don

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"The day I turn in my own countrymen, will be the day I put a bullet in my own head".
--George Harris, Patriot Games--

[This message has been edited by Donny (edited February 02, 2000).]
 
A .22 bounced back and hit me in the glasses a few years back. It put a nasty looking scrap on the lense. My friend still teases me about "one shot, two kills!" ALWAYS wear protective eyewear!

Erik
 
While in the butts doing the targets for fullbore (7.62 mm), I was hit by ricochets 3 or 4 times. Never actually penetrated or broke the skin -- but left a nice bruise.

My late uncle, out shooting with a .22 RF, had a ricochet come back and almost remove his big toe. Nasty mess.
(Mind you, he was a bit of a clown. He had fired at a steel railway line at a distance of about 15 metres!! His reason?? He saw it and thought, "Oh boy! A line! I always wanted to shoot a line!" (lion -- get it??)

He had to drive over an hour to the nearest hospital with two blood-soaked towels wrapped round his injured foot.

B
 
I was shooting with a friend at an indoor range...I was shooting a 45 while he loaded magazines and there were about five other shooters in the range, shooting a variety of guns. All of a sudden my friend went down on one knee and began limping out of the range area into the gunshop-portion of the store. I safed my gun and went to see what was wrong and found out he had been hit in the calf by a ricochet. Turned out a very large piece of bullet jacket had separated and sliced a couple inches deep into his calf...he had to have it dug out in the emergency room. Freaked him out so bad he hasn't been shooting since and this was over a year and a half ago.
 
RikWriter:

Sure am sorry to hear about your friend. It is a shame he had such a bad introduction to such a great sport. I have been hit by several pieces of jacket while shooting steel, but nothing serious.

The worst ricochet I have first hand knowledge about happened to one of my students. He had a ND while screwing around with his brother. The bullet hit a concrete floor and bounced up striking his brother in the head. The wound was mortal and his sibling died shortly afterwards. A real bummer...
 
Back in Jr. High a friend of mine took a 30/30 round and poked it into a crack in the side of a tree. He then paced off ten steps and proceeded to pump up his crossman pellet rifle. I asked him not to do this stupid thing. When he took aim at the primer I walked as far away as I could. A few minutes later I had to run up to his house and tell his mom that she needed to drive him to the ER to have the shell removed from his thigh. That was the last time I went to play with that guy.
 
I was hit by a ricochet a couple of weekends ago at a local indoor range.

I felt something strike my ankle. I thought it was brass from the guy next lane over till I looked down and saw the bullet roll down my foot. It appeared to be a 9mm FMJ.

I kept it as a reminder to wear my glasses and to always practice safe shooting.

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Blev
 
Anyone shooting at any respectable frequency will get hit by spatter, ricochets and brass sooner or later.
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Cowboy up!

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I have not been hit by a ricochet but did catch the open end of a 7.62*51 case betwix the eyes once. I still have a C scar. It bled for a damned long time too.



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"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
Had a guy bake the left side of my face once while he was working up some charges on his old flintlock. I was in the next lane to the right at an outdoor range, and I got fried pretty good because he overdid it a little.

I haven't taken a position next to a black powder shooter since!
 
Got hit with a hi-angle 5.56 ricochette during a live fire exercise. Fortunatly it was winter and we were in full winter battle dress. Hurt like the dickens. Didn't penetrate my clothing. Raised a welt sweat a rat to run around.

Normally I was a m60 gunner, but on one training mission I ended up being RTO in the 3 man gun jeep team due to having a newbie who needed to spend some time on the gun. This was live fire at Ft Ord, and the newb opened up as he was supposed to, and I got about 75 pieces of hot brass and links down the back of my field jacket before I had a good idea of what was going on. That sucked.
 
They call me Bloody Ned at Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot. Actually was at a cowboy match. Lead bounce back from a target two stages over had just hit our range officer twice in the right front shoulder. I was standing beside him when he got hit. He commented "ouch" that hurt. So I turn to walk away to some other "safer" place,when I took it in the left rear shoulder blade. Good thing I have poor posture, cause it skipped off my shoulder. Cut the skin one inch in length and big bruise the size of a fifty cent piece. Man that HURT!!
 
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