Salop Matt Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 This may well be a silly question but have to ask anyway. Have any of you been out with a .22lr and had a ricochet but then also spotted it come down again ( ie. shot on a dry stubble feild- herd the ricochet, then seen it hit the dust ) ? If so how far from your target was it that the round landed ? Or has no one ever seen one, am guessing most wont and I havent but thought i would ask the question . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 we've shot on grassland with a corrugated iron barn 50 yards behind and they give a good thud when they hit the tin sides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 had a couple of misshaps with mine, zeroed in in a wood pile and one bounced back from about 50yds and caught me a good'un in the testes. rilly rilly hurt! have seen the puff of dust from a ricochet on some hard pan, was about another 150 yds on from a 60yd shot. depends what it hits when it ricochets tho, angles, hardness etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Logic Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 had a couple of misshaps with mine, zeroed in in a wood pile and one bounced back from about 50yds and caught me a good'un in the testes. rilly rilly hurt! have seen the puff of dust from a ricochet on some hard pan, was about another 150 yds on from a 60yd shot.depends what it hits when it ricochets tho, angles, hardness etc... Owch! That's gonna hurt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunny Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Somewhere on youtube is a clip of a guy shooting a .50 cal from a bench and the round richochets back and hits him! Fortunately he is not seriously hurt but its worth watching as it has good sound track. Unfortunately I cannot get a link to the site at the moment otherwise I would post it. Keep getting the message "done" and then it locks up. Perhaps someone else may have better luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted December 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 ive seen the one you mean gunny and he was one lucky bloke that day ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 ive seen the one you mean gunny and he was one lucky bloke that day ! Or doubley unlucky. The target, I think I'm right, was a steel plate at 100 yards. Not only did the round ricochet back towards him, but if you look closely just in front of the shooter, you'll see a puff of sand as it ricochets again off the ground before hitting him. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunny Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Or doubley unlucky. The target, I think I'm right, was a steel plate at 100 yards. Not only did the round ricochet back towards him, but if you look closely just in front of the shooter, you'll see a puff of sand as it ricochets again off the ground before hitting him.Cheers Yes, I think you are right wymberley. Doesn't he get hit on the head? I'm working from memory here as I still cannot find it. Gunny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauer Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 wearing ear defenders and in slow mo you see the bullet bounce in the dust few feet in fornt of shooting bench then take ear muffs of o his head sauer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr smith Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 wearing ear defenders and in slow mo you see the bullet bounce in the dust few feet in fornt of shooting bench then take ear muffs of o his head sauer Are his ears still in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike2 Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 I've had a .22 ricochet; it landed about 15/20 feet away from the point of 1st impact. It simply spun into the air for a second then landed harmlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignoel Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 how was he lucky it broke his ear defenders lol lol lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humperdingle Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 There's a 300 metre long flattish field on my shoot which regularly gets used for wheat. It's got a huge bank of earth maybe 100 ft high on one side, so makes for a good backstop. We were plinking over a very dry, flat tilled field, and on many occasions could make out 2 or 3 "Secondary" puffs of dust. I'd estimate that the 1st ricochets were around 60 yards beyond the target, with secondary being around 30 or 40 yards beyond that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 how was he lucky it broke his ear defenders lol lol lol Better than brakeing his face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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