Guy catches .50 BMG ricochet to the head: Video Inside
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:20 pm
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Guy catches .50 BMG ricochet to the head: Video Inside
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:22 pm
You would have thought that was a safe distance.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:53 am
Thats insane!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:29 pm
OMG, that was crazy!
Looks like the ear protection protected his head.
Looks like the ear protection protected his head.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:25 am
Looks like it may have saved his life.dihappy wrote:OMG, that was crazy!
Looks like the ear protection protected his head.
That'll make ya a church going man....
Posted: 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.
wow, never would have thought that.
"you'll shoot your eye out" as it was originally intended.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:27 am
that video - definitely 'pucker factor 5'
Posted: 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.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:03 pm
Something just doesn't look right in that video . . . 
Posted: 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.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:41 pm
Remember, that is a ricochet... you can hear the whine as it tumbles through the air, much more slowly than it went down range.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.
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.
Posted: 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
Joe
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:30 am
Um, it ricochets up? What goes up must come down.JRG wrote:BUT, how did the slug come right back at him????? All the area down range of him slopes away!!!
Joe
In an unrelated note, every time I see your username, I think of this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GPX061Jvl1A
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:07 am
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.JRG wrote:BUT, how did the slug come right back at him????? All the area down range of him slopes away!!!
Joe
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:07 pm
And, you can hear them say, "No more iron", meaning "no more steel targets!"