Cosmodragoon
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The backstop material at that range is shredded tire bits, piled into sloping bays and held in place with rubber mats...
The range I currently shoot at is an outdoor range, and you move to and from the berm to shoot different distances. I shoot everywhere from point blank out to about 50 yards, and Ive occasionally had things "zing" by while shooting, and have found spent and deformed (obviously hit by other bullets while in the berm) bullets laying amoungst my brass when I was picking it up.
Direct bounce-backs of a bullet should be pretty rare, given high velocity and the relatively inelastic deformation of lead. However, consider what that impact does to a medium like piled dirt or shredded rubber. Other hard items embedded in the medium like rocks, other lodged bullets, fragments, and bits of jacket can be rapidly accelerated, either directly by impact or indirectly through movement of the medium. Rubber only makes it more interesting...