is this video real????

#3
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: oneshot onekill</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks real enough to me. I've had a few whizz back past me before. Never got me though. </div></div>

I should correct this... Once I was spotting for my brother because he had an old Hakim that was all over the place. I was sitting next to him with a spotting scope and after a few shots I felt something running down my cheek. Yep... it was blood. The Hakim had a loose Flash-hider and every round out of it would hit the flash-hider and shave copper off and sling little shards of copper everywhere on either side of it. Never affected the shooter because he was behind it. I didn't even feel it hit me but had to go to the hospital to get it removed. Missed my eye by about an inch!

Moral of the story... Never remove your eye protection when you're at the range... Even if you're not shooting!
 
#5
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No, not a chance that video is real unless he is shooting some kind of rubber bullets.
I have shot steel with solid brass bullets from a 50 bmg at 100 yards. Some stuck into the steel and the others fell straight down.
 
#6
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dreamlander</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No, not a chance that video is real unless he is shooting some kind of rubber bullets.
I have shot steel with solid brass bullets from a 50 bmg at 100 yards. Some stuck into the steel and the others fell straight down. </div></div>
Well... All I can say is obviously you have no idea what you're talking about. A bullet can do the craziest stuff if it hits something just right. Caliber doesn't matter. Combat Vets know what I'm sayin'. Look at the terrain in the video. There are hard, odd shaped objects all over that area.

Just spend a "Machine-gun Shoot" weekend at Knob Creek and you'll see what I mean too...
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#7
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I remember engaging a target at night with a Ma-Deuce at about 800yds and watching tracers go what looked like straight up and come raining down around us... along with some of the AP rounds! That'll make you shit melons!!!
 
#8
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This video has been out for a long time. Watch the splash of dirt in front of the shooter. That's where the bullet hit and then ricocheted up.
 
#9
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i agree with oneshotonekill, after watching this over and over it seems real, wow crazy shit, of all bullets it had to be that heavy ass one, bad luck, bullets do crazy things though, for example, i have missed my bow target and seen what an arrow will do, they will go all over the place if they hit the right thing so i imagine bullets do it alot more we just dont see them
 
#10
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I was at a shooting pit and an asshole decided to shoot a metal car wheel with his .45. I took a ricocheted copper jacket to the chest. It came back at approximately 15 degrees from straight back to hit me.
 
#11
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wow ouch, i was at a 200yrd range one day that is in the middle of a wma, a guy was letting his kids shoot his .50 cal that had no scope, i noticed that no dirt was flying down at the hill at 200yrds when the kids would shoot so i said something, he just goes "yeah it shoots a litte high" now this is a wma that allows people to fish, and 4 wheel all over, in fact some of the most popular fishing spots were around a mile behind the range, he wouldnt listen to me but was handed a quick ass chewin by the range operator
 
#12
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I think its real... bullets do crazy shit...

EX: was shooting steel @ 100 yards, 25-06 w/ Speer Hot-Cor hunting bullet.... anyways I shot, ding, and then the guy next to me felt something hit his shoulder.... sure enough it was part of the bullet. Not sure how but it happened. He kept the bullet as a reminder and we still talk about it to this day. Lesson learned to always wear eye protection!
 
#17
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I was shooting my .44-40 revolver at a target; a piece of wood hanging from a steel t fencepost, and hit a little low (post) and the 200 grain lead bullet came back and hit me in the chest. It didn't penetrate, but left a huge welt. I was about 25 yards away. Glad it wasn't the 44 magnum. Bullets ALMOST seem to defy the laws of physics.
 
#19
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Shooting a 40 S$W at an old stump years ago and after the last shot I got hit right in the collar bone. It was a intact but deformed bullet.

It hit at a strang angle. From where it hit was almost like it came straight down.
 
#21
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Got a 9mm in the glasses at a local indoor range. Scary. Later on I heard that ricochets are a very common thing at that particular range.
 
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When I was about 16 a friend and I were out at my granparents' ranch. We were down at the barn shooting stuff and decided to shoot at a nail sticking up out of a fence post. We were sitting on a fence rail with our feet in a metal trough. We started shooting as fast as we could with .22s at the nail. We heard a ricochet and then heard rattling. We looked at the trough between us and there was a .22 bullet rolling around. We called it a day after that.

I took an officer out to do some training and qualification a couple of years ago and when she took a shot from the 3 yard line she must have hit another bullet in the berm which flew out and hit me in the leg. It stung but didn't even tear my jeans. I kept the bullet and tell everyone that I was shot with a .40 and it just bounced right off of me.
 
#24
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How do you set up a steel plate for maximum safety then?

One of my friends was blatting at mild steel and some titanium scrap with a 308, from the holes I am surprised that a bullet impacting close to the perpendicular isn't just mangled.

Having said that I have fired tracer at rocks (on a big military range) and seen some scary ricochets. I don't want to replicate that but I would like to set up some proper steel targets - looks like fun.

Bit of a bone question I know but I would appreciate the advice

Andy
 
#25
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Anybody who is stupid enough to set a man hole cover, which is iron, not steel at 100yds and shoot at it with a .50BMG is a freakin moron!!!! Dumb asses like him make it difficult for the rest of us.
And as other people have noted, if you have ever had a chance to sit on the side corner or rear of a range during night fire, those bullets ricochet all over the place.
 
#26
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chanonry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How do you set up a steel plate for maximum safety then?

One of my friends was blatting at mild steel and some titanium scrap with a 308, from the holes I am surprised that a bullet impacting close to the perpendicular isn't just mangled.

Having said that I have fired tracer at rocks (on a big military range) and seen some scary ricochets. I don't want to replicate that but I would like to set up some proper steel targets - looks like fun.

Bit of a bone question I know but I would appreciate the advice

Andy </div></div>

Here is a resource you might find helpful, http://www.actiontarget.com/pdf/pt_Steel_Target_Resource_Guide.pdf

Good Luck
 
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About 13 years ago when i was in the academy, we were on the firing line at 15 yards shooting 9mm ball ammo. After the command to fire there was the normal roar of 50 pistols being fired at the same time quickly followed by a scream. 3 points away from me was a female cadet laying on the ground with a good amount of blood coming from her shoulder. It seems a riccochet came back and hit her just under the collarbone and tagged the subclavian blood vessel. It droped her like a hammer from what the range officers standing behind her said. I gotta figure a seperated jacket wouldnt have that much energy to it so it must have been a full bullet that impacted her. She was airlifted right from the range to the hospital and made a full recovery. She was later recycled into the next academy class. So yes bullets will do strange things and will do them with enough retained energy to fubar anyone in the way.
 
#29
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After a close miss I wont shoot any kind of mild steel or other metal anymore. Get the hard Ar-500 steel that wont deform enough to bend something back at you. .308 with non-steel bullets and half inch Ar-500 equals flattened/splattered bullets that will not comeback at you. Good times!
 
#30
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+1 on the tracer. fire a few tracers on a dusk shoot 308 or 50 cal and you will see some scary ass richochets . anything is possible if the round strikes just right
 
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