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50 calibre ricochet video clip

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  • #2
    PatsytheNazi
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    Morlar wrote: »
    Not sure how this is possible, but it looks like a 50 calibre 180 degree ricochet, (you can see the bullet hit the ground about 10 feet short of him).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc
    Very lucky guy he wasn't injured.


  • #3
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    PatsytheNazi wrote: »
    Very lucky guy he wasn't injured.

    I love the Homer Simpson way he says 'We're not doing that Anymore. But yep - The earmuff guy in particular was ridiculously lucky.


  • #4
    Manic Moran
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    Quite possible. You should try using tracers on a 'hard' range, it's quite disturbing.

    NTM


  • #5
    Morlar
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    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Quite possible. You should try using tracers on a 'hard' range, it's quite disturbing.

    NTM

    Everybody knows tracers work both ways :) Seriously though, never heard of an almost perfect total 180 degree ricochet like that. I would have thought a high velocity bullet would be even less likely to do a near perfect u-turn carrying that much momentum there and back. I have been on a pistol shooting range and seen a ricochet (from the metal bracket holding the target) but never a 180 degree thankfully.


  • #6
    Manic Moran
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    I've personally seen 150degrees or so off one bounce. It's also possible that it's two 90s. Shot fired, hits rock, bounces to the right, hits rock at similar angle, bounces straight back.

    NTM


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  • #7
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Quite possible. You should try using tracers on a 'hard' range, it's quite disturbing.

    NTM

    I've a good story of tracers from Lebanon..

    No names, as the lad is still serving!.. But a few years ago in Lebanon one of the Christian/IDF posts opened up on our position - racking the dinning hall and mess with .50cal

    One lad, from The Curragh (explains a lot lol) announced over the camp tannoy "its ok lads, its only tracers" :p - yes, we kept running!.


  • #8
    iceage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭iceage


    Saw that clip ages ago. Some referance to "No more iron" at the end of the clip.They might have been firing on a reinforced steel plate maybe.

    The shooters comment 'Am I bleeding! Should be thankful he's still breathing never mind leaking.


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