This is incredible. It was almost worthy of the Darwin Awards.
The guy is shooting an AR-50. A .50 calibre powerful sniper rifle with an effective range of about ONE MILE.
The target, a steel plate, (not a good idea to shoot at solid steel at the best of times).
The plate which was 100 yards away – much less than a mile – and way too close for a solid target.
You can hear the ping of the hit, then the bullet comes back and hits his earmuffs on his head.
You can hear the bullet as it tumbles through the air on its course back toward the shooter.
Watch the dust in front of the shooter. He’s lucky that the bullet hit the dirt first.
He is okay, (aside from an urgent need for new underwear and a roll of toilet paper to wipe up the brown adrenalin) and he’s obviously very lucky.
What a difference a half an inch makes!
Thanks Gene
“What a difference a half an inch makes!” …… my gawd, there are so many tings running through my mind, none of them typable.
Hmmmm….my wife says the same thing….
Jules, is 1 of them…..dumba$$$?
rev, does size matter? dunno.
Uh, I believe this was proven to be a hoax…
Seems too slow for 100yds, even for a .50. I think the bullet would move a lot faster than that.
@ Jarrod
Yeah, I think it was too. My Red Ryder BB gun would hit a target 100 yards away faster than that rifle (supposedly) did, it wouldn’t make that whistle on return, and there is no logical path for the bullet to have taken that would make it take so long to get back to the guy, bounce off the ground AND hit his ear muffs. I call BS.
Haha do you guys ever believe anything you see?.
tdc, that is way cool. I scoured the web, no luck
Seeing is believing! I don’t think!
The guy is shooting an AR-50. A .50 calibre powerful sniper rifle with an effective range of about ONE MILE.
The bullet is large. The powder charge is larger. It’s going to go very fast, and hit very hard.
The target, a steel plate, (not a good idea to shoot at solid steel at the best of times).
Steel plates are used all the time for this sort of thing because they absorb a lot of the energy of the bullet and you don’t have to worry about the bullet ricocheting around too much.
The plate which was 100 yards away – much less than a mile – and way too close for a solid target.
What exactly does that mean?
You can hear the ping of the hit, then the bullet comes back and hits his earmuffs on his head.
A round that powerful is going to go right through a steel plate unless the plate is a half inch thick, and even then the steel will take most of the impact. Unless the plate is at an angle, and in that case you’re talking about the slug being deflected away, not bounced right back.
This is an absurd hoax. If you know anything at all about shooting this isn’t even remotely possible.
Here is the original source of the video.
His blog is still active, so I’m sure you can ask him directly. He’s an extreme gun guy.
This link will bring you to the archives, scroll down to 6-27-07 and read the description. His link to the video is broken, but it’s the same video.
http://www.madogre.com/Archives/June%202007.htm
I’d be interested for you to send him your arguments and see how he responds.
lol some people have the whole universe worked out. The reason it sounds like it takes too long for the bullet to reach its target (the “ping”) is because sound is slow, the bullet (or shrapnel) is already on its way back before you hear the hit. A possible scenario: Upon impact the spinning bullet looses most of its energy and is redirected at a somewhat acute angle, it deforms and becomes lopsided, which creates backspin (and the whine), which creates an arced path which is why it hits the ground first and bounces back up. Whether this is fake or not, ricochets happen all too often and to say that the probability of a ricochet coming back and hitting the gunner is so high as to prove impossible is plain silly. I suppose this most be a hoax too?
http://fr.truveo.com/Shrapnel-Ricochet/id/4020877260