We recently had a guy shooting five stand who collected a pellet right in the tip of his schnozola. Said the gun going off, target breaking, and him bleeding all happened simultaneously. It penetrated well.. having surgery today to recover the pellet for reloading.
This was an overhead going away standard target. Range about 20 yards. 3/4oz #9 from a 20ga at 1,200 fps.
We are trying to determine if we have an actual safety hazard, or just what in the hell happened. We have been shooting this target for several years.
I've come up with the theory that the pellet contacted the underside rim of the target tangental to it and traveled around the inside of the bowl and exited 180 degrees later. This seems more likely to me than a simple rebound.
Any thoughts? Similar accidents?
