While shooting at the Police range, lead nose bullets, I shot the target from the 2 1/2 yard line. A fraget of the lead bounded back striking me in the leg. I was made to make a accidental shooting report. No real damage to the leg. It penetrated but just a little. Just enough to make it bleed.

Ed didnt know you were a police officer

 

i was in the mobile pd reserves for 6 yrs

 

where were you on??

Once when shooting a steel plates with a 44 spl loaded with lead slugs I had one come back and hit me in the face. Safety arejust as important as hearing protection.

Sorry meant to say safety glasses are just as important.......

I can't really say that I've experienced this, and hope to hell I never do.

I've seen a fair number of ricochets, but none caused any injury.  We took a bunch of weapons from the Amphib Base at Coronado, CA to NAS North Island to use their range.  We needed to give a deploying detachment a chance to shoot their weapons and the Marine ranges at Pendleton were not available.  We had quite a few ricochets (as marked by tracer -- 1 of every 5 -- so you know there were even more ball rounds doing ricochets) from both the M60s and the M2HB .50 cals.  Several times the tracers arced in back of some idiot pilots who broke left instead of right on takeoff.  (Breaking left took them over the active range, breaking right put them over Pt. Loma where it was safe.)  The Chief Aviation Ordnanceman in charge told us that if the pilots were stupid enough to ignore the Notices to Airmen and his huge red range flags, they deserved to get shotdown!

 

I was shooting some .45 lead semi-wadcutter target loads.  The powder charge was very light.  I had one round hit something solid by the target and bounce back!  I actually heard the "thunk" and saw the lead projectile come back.  The projectile itself was not much damaged by the impact and the bullet looked pretty much as it was loaded except for the marks of the rifling.

 

One of the neatest ricochets I ever saw was from a 106mm recoilless rifle.  We fired two APERS-T (anti-personnel, tracer) "behive" rounds from it.  (The "behive" round contained 6,000 13-grain steel darts that looked like roofing nails with fins.)  As I looked down the canal through the optical sight after firing, I saw the carrier for the flechette darts go skipping down the flat canal waters like a stone on a pond -- marked by the tracer element in the back of the carrier.  That was very cool.  Those two recoilless rifle shots flushed nearly two dozen detainees for intelligence to process.  Not bad for a test fire. 

Chief, I was with Houston 24 years then retired and I then went to Montgomery County Sheriff's office.

I work 15 years undercover narcotics with Houston and I was a Homicide Detective with Montgomery County.

shit hot

i tried to get on with Mobile

 

but we had a black chief of police

 

who was a real racist

 

he came from detroit

 

and didnt like me one bit