.50 cal ricochet right back at shooters head

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aris · #1 Post by **aris** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:09 pm

https://youtu.be/QokV7HzJhG4

Lucky escape

#2 Post by **dromia** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:14 pm

That one has been round the houses a few times.

Suspect it was squib load.

aris · #3 Post by **aris** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:15 pm

I suspect it was because he was shooting at 100 yards

saddler · #4 Post by **saddler** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:22 pm

aris wrote:I suspect it was because he was shooting at 100 yards

#5 Post by **Les** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:30 pm

It was 2 seconds from the shot to the return hit - shot @ 18 secs and return @ 20 secs. The shot and first contact was very fast - the ricochet took longer - so I don't think it was a squib. I think it was just a very lucky shooter.

#6 Post by **bradaz11** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:52 pm

Ive shot myself with a roundball out of a 44 muzzleloading revolver. Cowboy load bounced of the rubber sheeting over the backstop. Came back and hit me in the stomach. About the same feeling as a hard paintball

#7 Post by **dromia** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:04 pm

Yep low velocity they bounce back, high velocity either the backstop gives or the bullet, usually the bullet..

Very unusual to get a straight back ricochet unless it is low velocity.

saddler · #8 Post by **saddler** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:54 am

dromia wrote:Yep low velocity they bounce back, high velocity either the backstop gives or the bullet, usually the bullet..

Very unusual to get a straight back ricochet unless it is low velocity.

Ex-colleague at DLSA, Didcot saw a good example of same during a training course pre Overlord....in his KOSB days.
Instructor Sgt giving them the works on the PIAT at a 25 yard range.
The procedure after firing was to drop your head, chin on chest style.
The lesson finale was for the PIAT to be fired "for real", but using a dummy bomb of the correct weight, etc.

Sgt goes first.
Prone position, PIAT cocked & loaded. Cardboard tank aimed at, PIAT fired, head dropped to chin.
Bomb wobbles forward, ploughs through target, bounces off backstop & arcs back to firing point.
"Clang" = Sgt. out cold with concussion. Tin hat beyond repair.
Lesson about not looking at the target well illustrated!

Recruits get the rest of the day free in the NAAFI & give PIAT's a wide berth in future.
Mate went in onto Normandy on the first day in the first wave!

breacher · #9 Post by **breacher** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:46 am

I have taken a .45acp to the chest - it had hit the edge of a steel louvre backstop at 25m and came straight back.

I was behind and right of the shooter and ROing. It knocked me back a pace and left a good bruise !!

#10 Post by **glevum** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:25 am

I was in the Butts at Tipner when I was a cadet.

The lad next to me was hit by a 7.62 ricochet out of the sand backstop. It didn't break the skin, but he was burnt by it as it slid down inside his shirt.

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