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Me, too. I also agree with what APS said. I was hit while standing next to the shooter on low 7 target, hard enough to bleed. No one else shooting, at the time. Safety glasses should be a requirement, not a suggestion, for anyone shooting or observing. "Sharing" is not good enough. About as stupid as saying I'll only wear them when a shot pellet or a piece of a target is going to hit me in the eye.

Have seen the exact same thing on a L8 presentation. Shot pellet (he was using #8) barely made it under the nasal skin and was "picked out".

Sam

Thanks for reporting these occurrences. I am only an occasional shotgun shooter, and it would not have occurred to me that a pellet might ricochet from a clay target. I'll keep it in mind.

Curl

Last Saturday, at Whittington, I was hit by something in the forearm, hard enough to draw blood. Piece of Clay prolly. Sometimes Amarillo Mike shoots at me, but I had my eye on him this time.

Vic Reinders was both a local and a national champ , primarily at trap, but also was a great skeet shot. He was a chemistry professor and scientific by nature. He related a number of stories about ricochets off skeet targets. He said it must be that the pellet in question didn't break the target, but bounced off, and all the cases he had investigated were with No. 9 shot, never anything bigger.

I used to shoot skeet at Ft. Gordon in Augusta,GA back in the early 80's. There was only 1 skeet field in operation. I was shooting a high 8. One is shooting almost directly overhead. I had a pellet hit me hard enough to draw blood to the left of my shooting glasses near my left eye. I am a firm believer in wearing eye protection. How did that pellet come back and hit me?

This normally occurs when the pellet hits the side of the target. Tap the side of a target sometime and you'll see how hard it is. That is a requirement, otherwise the arm of the trap machine would break every bird.
I've been hit at least a half dozen separate times over my shooting life, by #9 soft shot that flattened itself against the side of a target and turned into a sharpened shard. It can clearly penetrate the skin. One of those pieces had to be cut out of my forehead.
I've always worn eye protection. Now I make sure that I've also got a hat on!

Agree w/ the idea that the pellet ran inside the inner periphery of the target's underside & exited toward the shooter as the target came apart.

I know of one occurance where a lens was damaged on a skeet field at station four, presumably from a pellet strike, and I have had lenses struck and seen pellets pellets embedded in persons shooting in other circumstances. There is good reason for the old field rule of shooting at 'HIGH BIRDS ONLY', prolly safer for the dogs too.

FWIW, I have a 20ga M12 w/a 1/2~5/8" chunk of clay target fully embedded in the buttstock. It happened at station 7 while I was in queue waiting my turn to shoot. It was a piece from the shooter's broken high 7 target.

I know a guy that had something similar happen to him. He was shooting skeet, H1, and upon the target breaking he felt a sting on his nose; there was just a few drops of blood and a little soreness.

A few days later, it was sore, kind of like pimple. He looked in the mirror and poked at it, and "tink", a pellet dropped into the sink!

And again, there were no other ranges in use.

I'm gonna start wearing a tin cup!