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Lucky escape

That one has been round the houses a few times.

Suspect it was squib load.

I suspect it was because he was shooting at 100 yards

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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 !!

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.