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Lets talk about ricochet gentlemen!!!

About 5 year ago, I was shooting my semi-auto .22, a Browning Buckmark Target, at 1/2" thick steel disks, 6" in diameter at 50 yards. They were hanging from the frame by chains and designed to push back when struck and divert the round into the ground. I had been shooting them for a while and then something happened. A shot to the center of one of the disks ricocheted back at me and struck me in the right pectoral. I felt the impact that felt like someone had taken a rubberband, held it against my chest and popped me. I really started to sheke when I opened my shirt and saw the spot it hit and there was blood oozing out. I looked again and found a piece of lead embedded just under the skin, took my pocket knife and dug it out. I left the range and went to the local Dr. who x-rayed me and found no other bullet fragments. I went back to the range to look at the disk and found a dent in the plate made from a large caliber bullet, with the bullet spash slightly larger than the .22 split by the dent. In other words the bullet was split and the half going into the dent obviously followed the curve sending it back to me. Talk about my guardian angel working overtime.....

I believe what I saw on that film could happen, if it was staged, those guys need to have jobs in the movie industries FX departments.

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