Thread: Funny what a bullet will do

Originally Posted by XR500

Firepower displays in the desert in Waiouru: belts of tracer show that bullets hitting hard surfaces even a km away can indeed circle back at you. Quite spooky watching these fireflies floating back towards you

A colleague in the British Army that I worked with in Germany had just come back from a tour in Northern Ireland: He had shot a 'terrorist' in the calf as he was departing the scene of a crime. Bang flop. FMJ had ricocheted off the tibia and turned 90 degrees, worked its way all the way up his leg and exited after gutting him.

I worked on a homicide a few years ago where the victim was shot in the shoulder. A bone fragment passed through his chest and sliced into his heart, while a person behind was untouched by the exiting bullet but wounded by bone fragments. It was an interesting case as there were other shots in the victim as well but non-fatal. It was just the small sliver of shoulder bone that killed him.