[OldPossum]

I remember talking to a retired Air Force officer who told me that in a pistol training course he took, they were firing .45's. Large earthen embankments separated the participants, but during the exercise, one bullet from a gun fired by someone else ricocheted (sp?), went skyward and came down and struck him in his back. He said that it felt as though he had been slugged in the back with a sledgehammer.

Now, this is a case where it was determined that the bullet by some strange trajectory did not go very high. What if it had come down from a distance of some hundreds of feet? Would it have had a deadly impact?

[Old Professer]

Actually the bullet gained momentum when it glanced off the rock due to the unyielding nature of the rock, I've no idea how it achieved the strange trajectory.