Barrett .50 close call

[Dragsterhund]

zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZIIIPPTHUD

[Grampa]

he should have caught it with his teeth

[Timmy Tucker]

Someone who's a regular over at ADV hit her husband in the arm the other day with a ricochet. Posted up pics of it too. Luckily, it was just a minor scratch.


http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=379384

[NAKID]

At 00:35 it looks like a little streak of blood on the earmuffs....

[He Man]

One of my friends told me (Machine Gunner on an Abrams USMC) .50cal displaces enough air that if it were to pass by your head within a foot, its possible to get knocked out by its draft.

[Evil_Ductator]

Hahaha "we're not doin' that anymore", "nope"

lucky devil, another inch and he'd be a hurtin' unit.

[blue tiger]

One of my friends told me (Machine Gunner on an Abrams USMC) .50cal displaces enough air that if it were to pass by your head within a foot, its possible to get knocked out by its draft.

I'm going to have to go ahead and doubt this claim. I don't think that a 600 grain projectile going the speed of light would produce enough of a vortex to knock a man down. Hitting him dead center...that's a different story.

[Kopfjäger]

I'm going to have to go ahead and doubt this claim. I don't think that a 600 grain projectile going the speed of light would produce enough of a vortex to knock a man down. Hitting him dead center...that's a different story.

+ higher than I can count. 

[Privateer]

so I'm not a shooter at all.. I've shot at the range before, 9mm, .38, .40, 10mm..  but what happens there?

They say "no more iron."  Were they shooting at an iron target and it ricochet back and hit him in the head?  Just trying to understand what they would've shot at that would've caused that .50 to come damn near straight back at him. 


crazy.

[He Man]

no idea, for .50cal to come back at that short of angle, it would of needed to frag upon impact. ive seen .50cal shoot a clean hole through manhole covers.

[Monsterlover]

Why did it make the whistling noise as it returned?

Normally bullets don't make that sort of noise when they approach a target.

Right?

[Kopfjäger]

Yes, they were shooting an an Iron target. Bullet ricocheted and came more or less, straight back. The reason you here it whistle is because the bullet is traveling at a slower velocity than when it is fired from the rifle.

[NAKID]

Also, because it is deformed from hitting the target, it's not aerodynamic like it was before. It cuts through the air differetly and that's the whistling you hear...

[Monsterlover]

Got it

[rgramjet]

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.