TFL Mythbusters: Jed Clampett ricochette shot

I used to do bank shots with a .22 LR rifle using old yard sale pans, and glass beer bottles. I could get 2 with one shot most every time. The best I ever did was breaking 4 bottles. I tried to get 3 many times. Though the bullet was so fragged, and chewed up it would usualy just knock the third bottle over without breakig it.
 
I've done it with marmots (rock chucks), but not consistently by any stretch of the imagination.

Rock chucks hang out in beds of rocks, after shooting a few we'd get bored and try to ricochet bullets into them. We'd pull it off maybe 1 in every 30 shots. The secret is in the type of rock. The rock has to be really hard to cause a ricochets. The results can be impressive, the bullet hits the rock and mushrooms, so when it hits the rock chuck it really tears it apart.
 
I tried the thing with splitting a bullet on an axe head with a .22 pistol. Let's just say it looked a lot easier than it actually was. I never pulled it off after 3-4 attempts.

Since other people went in this direction; I once shot a squirrel with a .22 rifle that was running full speed up a gravel road. I was never able to decide for sure if I actually hit the squirrel or I hit gravel and "barked it". It was a very impressive shot if I actually hit it and my friends were awe struck until we started thinking about it a little bit.
 
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