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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?
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Any chance it was a pellet from somewhere else on the range?
A #9 lead is pretty light on momentum to ricochet back 20yds and pierce the hide. Steel maybe.
Out there doing it best I can.
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"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Could the ricochet have been off the roof?... Geo
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Our squad at a skeet shoot was hit by a BB three different times from out own squad members shot at a bird. There is a very good reason to wear safety glasses!
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faceshield... not off roof... gun protrudes well past.
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Pellets ricochet...period.
At our club, the same guy has been hard enough to bleed...twice...while shooting skeet. I've never asked, but that must have been witnessed hundreds of times over the years.
It only gets worse when obstacles are involved.
I've seen a guy catch several dozen pellets rebounding from a tree on a sporting clays course where "nobody" ever attempts the target. A close friend could have died on a course when he caught a pellet in the neck that came BACK and UP from the ground when a squad mate was attempting a rabbit target.
And this past weekend I had to remind a father that his young boys weren't wearing glasses. And then he thought it would be OK if they shared a pair while shooting.
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I vote for the jai alai explanation.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Over the years I have seen shot return from a target on several occasions. In one case the rather soft shot elongated to a small needle shape which had to be pulled from my chest. I believe the shot hit the taget and was directed back to the line.
This is why everyone must wear eye protection- even observers in a galley and we as shooters need to be safe and remind other of this.
al
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