Posted: 12/15/2012 8:12:47 PM EDT
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I figured this wasn't worthy of technical discussion, so here ya go.
Went shooting with my 9mm AR for the first time. Put a silhouette target up on a wooden fence with a boulder/dirt berm behind it. From about 20 yards away I put 45 rounds of PMC into target, the build ran great and I was happy. Took down target, and started cleaning up my brass which fell about 6-7 feet to my right. That's where I found this laying on top of the grass among the casings. 
I thought about this for a long time. I even went back and looked at the berm, the dirt was chewed up and a few fragments lay here and there from where the rounds hit the boulders. Not a single mark on the fence the silhouette was taped to. This bullet does not have a single mark on it other then the rifling. It was not warm when I found it, but as you can see it clearly has not been laying in the field too long. Am I crazy to think, in rural Northern NJ, that this could have landed here from somebody else? Or are these freak events more common than I think. |
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Probably a ricochet off of a stone in the ground.
I've actually shot myself with a .45 before (Kind of/sort of/not really). Shooting about 10-15 yds away at a target outside, and all of the sudden I just feel a weak thump against my leg. Look down, and there's a 230gr slug resting between my ankle and the top of my boot, with a really cool mark where it hit a stone or something. My first though: "Well, fuck. Glad that didn't have more momentum." My second thought: "Damn, that looks cool!" 
Yeah, CSB, I know. |
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Magnets.
I've had a 9mm fmj bullet fall onto my boot. I was shooting a 1/2" osb with a paper target tacked to it and 3 miles of flat plowed ground behind it. It was a perfect bullet just like yours. No idea as to how it came back and fell trait down onto my boot. It felt like I dropped it onto the steel toe from just above head height. Bullets can do weird things. Proper gun safety and eye/ ear pro always needed. |
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Probably a ricochet off of a stone in the ground. but the magic bullet is in pristine condition Definitely didn't hit a stone, I'd say it didn't even hit the paper if I knew better... Maybe it entered one of those inter-spacial portals Michio Kaku and Hawkings have been telling me so much about. |
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I figured this wasn't worthy of technical discussion, so here ya go. Went shooting with my 9mm AR for the first time. Put a silhouette target up on a wooden fence with a boulder/dirt berm behind it. From about 20 yards away I put 45 rounds of PMC into target, the build ran great and I was happy. Took down target, and started cleaning up my brass which fell about 6-7 feet to my right. That's where I found this laying on top of the grass among the casings. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8275905323_e5ea5aaf9b_h.jpg I thought about this for a long time. I even went back and looked at the berm, the dirt was chewed up and a few fragments lay here and there from where the rounds hit the boulders. Not a single mark on the fence the silhouette was taped to. This bullet does not have a single mark on it other then the rifling. It was not warm when I found it, but as you can see it clearly has not been laying in the field too long. Am I crazy to think, in rural Northern NJ, that this could have landed here from somebody else? Or are these freak events more common than I think. I've picked up 9mm bullets laying on top of the grass that looked just like that. After going through some soup cans and what not. Not deformed in the least. |
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When I was a teenager shooting a combat elite at a coke can on a stump about 15-20 yds away. I finished the mag and lowered the pistol and looked over at my cousin and started saying something to him when we heard/felt a thud on the ground, we both looked down and saw a 45 acp ball round spinning in the dirt about 3 inches in front of my foot. My cousin picked it up then dropped it because it was hot. It was a good 5 or 10 seconds after I fired the last shot when it hit the ground. Crazy thinking about the odds of that happening and the path that bullet took. I still have it, it`s blunted just slightly on the nose, but otherwise looks new. |
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When I was a teenager shooting a combat elite at a coke can on a stump about 15-20 yds away.
I finished the mag and lowered the pistol and looked over at my cousin and started saying something to him when we heard/felt a thud on the ground, we both looked down and saw a 45 acp ball round spinning in the dirt about 3 inches in front of my foot. My cousin picked it up then dropped it because it was hot. It was a good 5 or 10 seconds after I fired the last shot when it hit the ground. Crazy thinking about the odds of that happening and the path that bullet took. I still have it, it`s blunted just slightly on the nose, but otherwise looks new. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Probably a ricochet off of a stone in the ground. but the magic bullet is in pristine condition Definitely didn't hit a stone, I'd say it didn't even hit the paper if I knew better... Maybe it entered one of those inter-spacial portals Michio Kaku and Hawkings have been telling me so much about. I have pulled hollow point pistol rounds out of a hard wood stump before that showed no real signs of damage. Bullets take a lot to deform. |
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