Safe to shoot at grass?

[Boma]

No I haven't been insulted by someone. =)

Also when I speak of grass, I'm talking about the ordinately grass that in common among most front yards of suburban homes. I believe there are no rocks or gravel under the grass. Maybe cables or pipes =)

[stevie_d_64]

No I haven't been insulted by someone. =)

Also when I speak of grass, I'm talking about the ordinately grass that in common among most front yards of suburban homes. I believe there are no rocks or gravel under the grass. Maybe cables or pipes =)

Good, because I was about ready to ahh...uhhh...never mind...

Seriously,

Depending on the area, soil conditions, site prep, etc etc...

If the contractor that built the house needed to use some "select fill" to improve the grade (not necessarily for looks, but for bearing quality) that select fill could almost be anything (within a city or county building code) from sand to clay, or anything they can possibly get their hands on...But that depends on the code...

If it has some aggregate material in there, you may not want to shoot into the ground at all, in your yard...

If that really is your biggest concern...

I had to totally redesign a foundation for a large house by a bayou here in Houston a couple of years ago...It was in an established nieghborhood, with houses already up on either side...The load necessitated us to put in bell-bottom piers around the perimeter and in some key positions inside the foundation area...

We took soil samples and didn't run into anything bad until we started drilling the piers, we then ran into concrete "rip rap" back fill from the bayou dredge the size of basketballs and above...Couldn't do deep piles then...And it varied in depth from 5-6 inches below grade to feet below grade...

So yeah, my advise is unless you know whats in there, don't shoot...Of course thats a good rule regardless...

Shut up Steve! blahhhh...

[casselthief]

No one should make fun of the way a mans dog shoots.

I know someone who was shot by a dog. He was in no mood to make fun of the dog afterward.

- Jim

booooo, I totally thought you were joking when you said that.....

Anyway, back to the question: Is it Safe to Shoot at Grass.

I think ultimately it comes down to Who's smoking it at the time, and what kind of Grass it is....

I mean....

riiiiiiiight

[Liberty]

This thread reminds me of a story involving a friend of mine.
He had bought a tek 9 that he had bought at a gun show. He was anxious to check it out and hadn't been a gun range yet. It was the 4th of July and his neigbors were shooting of firecrackers all day. What the heck he thought. and poped off a few in his backyard muzzle into the grass.

Later on he goes to fire up his grill for the traditional 4th grillings and his gas grill wouldn't light up. Sure enough he shot up the plastic gas line feeding his grill.

[jimlongley]

No I haven't been insulted by someone. =)

Also when I speak of grass, I'm talking about the ordinately grass that in common among most front yards of suburban homes. I believe there are no rocks or gravel under the grass. Maybe cables or pipes =)

Think in terms of the typical contractor laying down an inch or two of topsoil over whatever fill was laid down to bring the yard up to grade. Unless you know that there are no stones or rocks just under the grass, they are there. It's kind of like that "unloaded" gun.

Like my example above, a gun club near Altamont NY, where they built a new clubhouse about 200 feet in front of where the old one was, and buried the old parking lot with the excavated fill. Under the new grass just downrange was all kinds of rubble, including a couple of curbstones. Nobody considered that they might be dangerous, that anyone might ever shoot at the ground short of the 50 foot target line.

[Boma]

LOL that's kinda funny and dangerous.

Picture yourself shooting the grass infront of you, and then you a "boing!" and it bounces back and hits you.

[rastalavista]

If you have ever fired a tracer round that hit dirt and ricocheted, you'll have no desire to shoot at something ground level unless it is a long way away or you are flat on your belly. Don't take a chance!

I have seen many times a tracer go 200 yards in front of me and bounce off something that causes it to go over my head (albeit prob 500 feet in the air).

But it only takes one freakish incident to have a post that starts with "Ya'll ain't gonna believe this...."