Dropped bullet discharges, wounds woman in leg at Lemoore range (CA)

The Fresno Bee ^ | 10/13/2014 | Lewis Griswold

[Hot Tabasco]

THIS sounds like a test for the Mythbusters...

Actually that was one of their episodes. They put a number of different caliber rounds inside a barrel then set it on fire...........The results were basically nothing more than what you would see from firecrackers........

[Arrowhead1952]

I'm skeptical anyone actually has .22 ammo these days.

I'm well supplied, but running low. Our hardware store has some off brand for $4.50 for a box of 50.

[steve86]

If she was only lucky enough to be on Medicaid. Helo evacuations are free. ER bill won’t be so cheap either, though.

[Old Yeller]

Probably had a bb taped to the primer.

[Mariner]

"Skeptical"

No, it's bullshit.

She's looking for a payday somehow, or covering for somebody elses shooting error who should not have had a gun.

If you hit the butt end of a .22 with a hammer, the bullet will travel no faster than about 50ft/sec.

And may not make it 50ft.

[CrazyIvan]

When I was a teenager we would cut plastic straws in half and stick a .22 in the end. We would then throw them like lawn darts. If they hit pavement they went off like a firecracker.

[Rodamala]

SAAMI - Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter

[DainBramage]

I’ve actually been on the nozzle in a room with rounds popping off. Scared the batshit out of mr but that’s it. Of course I couldn’t see anything just heard it . Louder than you would think.

[discostu]

It depends on the gun. If you have a round under the hammer, and either the safety off or the safety isn’t the kind that puts something between the pin and the round, and the guns lands in such a way the pin sparks the primer, then yes. But lacking any one of those no.

[GingisK]

My son flattened a loaded .22 casing on the driveway with a hammer. It went off and the casing embedded itself in my son's wrist. The bullet went someplace else.

Son's IQ jumped a few points that day.

[marktwain]

It could be that the casing caused a bruise...

They do not say how serious the wound was...

[Chode]

minimal velocity, if it lodged in her skin, i'd almost have to call BS

[antidisestablishment]

It’s funny, whenever I cooked off ammo, the bullet tended to remain in place while the casing flew in the other direction. Guess physics has changed since I left Cali.

[Secret Agent Man]

depends on the gun.

[Cementjungle]

Dropping one of these puppies on your toe might hurt:

[longhorn too]

Even if this happen, there would be very little pressure on the bullet to do much if any damage.

[going hot]

You aimed it down to your feet? What were you thinking? The proper way was to smack the .22’s with a shovel on the sidewalk!