Safety Lesson Learned The Hard Way - Page 2

sc928porsche · 04-22-2008, 05:08 PM

Not only be aware of your target, be aware of your backstop!

Cyrille · 04-22-2008, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Dog

I once had a similar thing happen shooting .44 lead balls of my Colt 1851 Navy cap&ball pistol into a big dead tree - that spongy wood bounced those soft lead slugs right back to fall at my feet! Had I stood a couple yards closer . . .

Now don't git me wrong I ain't no tree hugger, I ain't no "envirmentilist"
neither. But couldn't both you guys have brought some tin cans, cardboard boxes, sticks, paper plates or something else to shoot at?
Trees are "living" things. If you are going to use the wood O.K. use it, but to just distroy something by useing it as a target and nothing else is as productive as shooting road signs and street lamps! I know you said the tree was dead, but I have seen "hunters" practicing on live trees; even a dead tree's wood can be used to build a fire or a shelter of some sort if need be.

jimkim · 04-23-2008, 05:57 AM

I had a buddy once that was shooting at some quarter inch Plexiglas. I was in the office and heard the bullets hitting the wall. I went out and warned him they were ricocheting. He laughed and told me I was overreacting. He then fired two more rounds. The last one bounced straight back at him and hit his trigger finger. It left a big welt on his finger. He found out when I take the time to warn someone of something they had better listen.

In other words if I get up off my fatA$$ Im serious.

ander254 · 04-23-2008, 06:48 AM

just a car-- thats a sweet video. The sound of the bullet coming back is pretty awesome. I wonder how far out he was shooting.

Cyrille- i learned my lesson shooting trees when i was younger with my bbguns. not enough power to stick in the tree. I unloaded my first CCW in a tree (Daisy BB gun). I couldn't move quick enough to get out of dodge from bb's coming back at me.

NINJA_SUPREME · 04-23-2008, 06:00 PM

geez just imagine if that guys head was tilted a few more inches to the left

SavvyShooter · 05-06-2008, 03:42 PM

I've never been in a situation where bullets, bombs mortars or other ordinance have been sent my direction. But that wicked whistling sound seems like one of those last-noises-you-hear-before-you-buy-the-proverbial-farm. That is one lucky dude!

andrew cochran · 05-06-2008, 03:54 PM

He certinly is!

ArkansasHunter · 05-06-2008, 03:55 PM

If you own land that has tree's on it, it will pzz you off if you find someone came a long and riddle a tree with bullets.
Tree's are valuble to the land owner.

I shot a metal Deer stand I found on our posted land while squirrel hunting and the shot came back and hit me.
Though It didn't hurt, the shot came back with enough force to put out an eye.
Fourtuinitly that didn't happen to me.

Capt'n Mil Coll · 05-12-2008, 11:54 AM

The only thing that actually came back at me while shooting was when I was shooting my Tokorov SVT-40. That rifle kicks the empty carts out so hard they have a dent in them. So im blasting away with it and it sends one red hot cart flying up and it lands at the back of my neck between my neck and my shirt collar. So now when I get a tan I have a nice white outline of a 7.62x54r cart that wont tan from the burn scar.

andrew cochran · 05-12-2008, 01:09 PM

Hey you happen to have a "special mark"!

just_a_car · 05-12-2008, 10:59 PM

Capt'n, I had the same thing happen with my CETME. The ol' Spanish Ladies fling spent cartridges around 30 feet from you and I was at a range that had "blinders" that deflected the rounds down-range. Unfortunately, it sometimes deflects them straight up and one steel Wolf .308 case landed right onto my forearm and sat there without falling off. Got a nice little 1/4" mark from that case.

04-23-2008, 05:57 AM	#23
jimkim Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Near the Little Ocmulgee river in GA Posts: 2,051 Blog Entries: 11	I had a buddy once that was shooting at some quarter inch Plexiglas. I was in the office and heard the bullets hitting the wall. I went out and warned him they were ricocheting. He laughed and told me I was overreacting. He then fired two more rounds. The last one bounced straight back at him and hit his trigger finger. It left a big welt on his finger. He found out when I take the time to warn someone of something they had better listen. In other words if I get up off my fatA$$ Im serious. __________________ Jan. 4, 2007...Gasoline $2.10/gallon HMMM? Jim Last edited by jimkim; 04-23-2008 at 05:59 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

05-06-2008, 03:54 PM	#27
andrew cochran Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Little town in ARKANSAW! Posts: 2,156	He certinly is! __________________ If you don't have anything good to say... Don't say it!

05-12-2008, 11:54 AM	#29
Capt'n Mil Coll Military Rifle Collector Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Right behind you. -NRA Member- Posts: 2,298 Images: 12	The only thing that actually came back at me while shooting was when I was shooting my Tokorov SVT-40. That rifle kicks the empty carts out so hard they have a dent in them. So im blasting away with it and it sends one red hot cart flying up and it lands at the back of my neck between my neck and my shirt collar. So now when I get a tan I have a nice white outline of a 7.62x54r cart that wont tan from the burn scar. __________________ Let's light this fuse and see what happens!

05-12-2008, 01:09 PM	#30
andrew cochran Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Little town in ARKANSAW! Posts: 2,156	Hey you happen to have a "special mark"! __________________ If you don't have anything good to say... Don't say it!

05-12-2008, 10:59 PM	#31
just_a_car Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edmonds, WA Posts: 3,522	Capt'n, I had the same thing happen with my CETME. The ol' Spanish Ladies fling spent cartridges around 30 feet from you and I was at a range that had "blinders" that deflected the rounds down-range. Unfortunately, it sometimes deflects them straight up and one steel Wolf .308 case landed right onto my forearm and sat there without falling off. Got a nice little 1/4" mark from that case. __________________

04-22-2008, 05:08 PM	#21
sc928porsche Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: living in Alabama now Posts: 239	Not only be aware of your target, be aware of your backstop!

04-23-2008, 06:48 AM	#24
ander254 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 235 Images: 5	just a car-- thats a sweet video. The sound of the bullet coming back is pretty awesome. I wonder how far out he was shooting. Cyrille- i learned my lesson shooting trees when i was younger with my bbguns. not enough power to stick in the tree. I unloaded my first CCW in a tree (Daisy BB gun). I couldn't move quick enough to get out of dodge from bb's coming back at me.

04-23-2008, 06:00 PM	#25
NINJA_SUPREME Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 5	geez just imagine if that guys head was tilted a few more inches to the left

05-06-2008, 03:42 PM	#26
SavvyShooter Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14	I've never been in a situation where bullets, bombs mortars or other ordinance have been sent my direction. But that wicked whistling sound seems like one of those last-noises-you-hear-before-you-buy-the-proverbial-farm. That is one lucky dude!

05-06-2008, 03:55 PM	#28
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas Posts: 10,711	If you own land that has tree's on it, it will pzz you off if you find someone came a long and riddle a tree with bullets. Tree's are valuble to the land owner. I shot a metal Deer stand I found on our posted land while squirrel hunting and the shot came back and hit me. Though It didn't hurt, the shot came back with enough force to put out an eye. Fourtuinitly that didn't happen to me.