Barrett .50 close call

[Evil_Ductator]

Shooting is dangerous.  Time to go get back on my motorcycle.   

[blue tiger]

These guys were idiots because of the range they were shooting at. 100 tards is minimun with any of my centerfire rifles. Something as powerful as a .50 I would go maybe 300 yards out or more. It's not a ricochet proper that I would worry about but pieces of the jacket or whatever piece of steel you just destroyed. The .50 BMG is an AWESOME weapon.

[jimboecv]

I wonder if it was a chunk of the copper jacket....Im sure the iron target probably peeled the copper off the lead core.  Ive had bits of copper shrapnel come back at me while shooting falling plates.

That happened to me.  We were shooting steel plates on an old runway, shooting ARish type weapons, .223.  Double taps, boom-boom, boom-boom, then something pops me in the forehead.  It was a copper jacket.  Target was I'd guess 60 yards away.  Cut my head a bit.  That little make the beast with two backser musta been spinning to come back that quick because the jacket didn't have any weight to it.