Guy catches .50 BMG ricochet to the head: Video Inside

NguyenVanDon · Post by **NguyenVanDon** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:20 pm

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d0_1183090807

Post by **carlson1** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:22 pm

You would have thought that was a safe distance.

Sludge · Post by **Sludge** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:53 am

Thats insane!!!!!!!

dihappy · Post by **dihappy** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:29 pm

OMG, that was crazy!

Looks like the ear protection protected his head.

catsofthebase3 · Post by **catsofthebase3** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:25 am

dihappy wrote:OMG, that was crazy!

Looks like the ear protection protected his head.

Looks like it may have saved his life.

That'll make ya a church going man....

LedJedi · Post by **LedJedi** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:37 am

yumpin yimminy!

wow, never would have thought that.

"you'll shoot your eye out" as it was originally intended.

Seburiel · Post by **Seburiel** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:27 am

that video - definitely 'pucker factor 5'

austin · Post by **austin** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:47 am

He has his right leg cocked out and the inner thigh exposed. That round or shrapnel from its contact with the ground could easily have penetrated his leg and severed his femoral artery. He is very lucky.

HankB · Post by **HankB** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:03 pm

Something just doesn't look right in that video . . .

Liberty · Post by **Liberty** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:56 pm

Am I the only one that percieves the speed of the bullet at about the speed of a fastball thrown by a decent minor league player.

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:41 pm

Liberty wrote:Am I the only one that percieves the speed of the bullet at about the speed of a fastball thrown by a decent minor league player.

Remember, that is a ricochet... you can hear the whine as it tumbles through the air, much more slowly than it went down range.

And for the record, I don't volunteer to have a minor league pitcher chunk 750 grains of bronze at my head at 90+mph.

JRG · Post by **JRG** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:52 am

BUT, how did the slug come right back at him????? All the area down range of him slopes away!!!

Joe

NcongruNt · Post by **NcongruNt** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:30 am

JRG wrote:BUT, how did the slug come right back at him????? All the area down range of him slopes away!!!

Joe

Um, it ricochets up? What goes up must come down.

In an unrelated note, every time I see your username, I think of this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GPX061Jvl1A

G.C.Montgomery · Post by **G.C.Montgomery** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:07 am

JRG wrote:BUT, how did the slug come right back at him????? All the area down range of him slopes away!!!

Joe

You can hear the bullet strike a piece of metal in the distance which indicates they were probably shooting a steel gong or other target. Bullets striking steel have been known to rebound and bounce back on an arc along their original trajectory to the point of origin. This is part of the reason USPSA and IDPA specifically require steel targets be set at certain minimum distances from the shooter but even that is no guarantee.

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:07 pm

And, you can hear them say, "No more iron", meaning "no more steel targets!"