Thread: it can happen to anyone! Please be safe

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Just because it docent make a sound doesn't mean it hasn't ricocheted either. When doing goat control I bought a few thousand rounds of 7.62 tracer ammo. That stuff changed how I shoot too this day. The number of shots that flew in weird directions was incredible. Back over our heads a few times. But the one that really got me thinking was its ability too hit the ground, go over a crest of a hill, and then get airborne again.

Much the same how my old man taught me about how projectiles behave, one sopping wet evening on dark he took me out on our pine block at the time, he dumped a magazine of 7.62 nato tracer across the valley to a face above the track above one of the old haul road and watched them piss off in all directions bouncing around.

“All bullets can do that, just because you can’t see it don’t assume it hasn’t”

Probably not the best way to teach a 10 year old how dangerous projectiles can be, but I still remember it to this day maybe 65% of those red beams whizzing on all angles, probably the best educational display of visual lethality I’ve witnessed.

Makes one wonder if the causal shooter is actually aware of what a projectile is able to do once it has contacted a surface/object and if that is something taken into consideration.

I have been present to witness a 7m08 pinhole a sitting stationary goat, ricochet of the dry clay ground behind it and get airborne again and ping into an adjacent clay face, the shooter was able to dig out the projectile remains and was rather stunned as he expected it to just stop when it hit the goat.