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To: marktwain

A .22 is just a lead slug, I don’t see how that could ricochet, then the gun went off from dropping it? There has to be more to this story.


6 posted on 02/26/2012 7:46:10 PM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: LukeL

Yeah, about a fifth of Jack D.....


8 posted on 02/26/2012 7:51:39 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it doesn't get any better than that!)
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To: LukeL

I once had a .22 short whir back past my head when I shot at a sheet metal paint can as it bounced off.

Talk about a “shoot to annoy” weapon!


13 posted on 02/26/2012 8:09:54 PM PST by darth
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To: LukeL

>>A .22 is just a lead slug, I don’t see how that could ricochet

Of course it could ricochet, just like any bullet, jacketed or not. Some reduced ricochet ammo is in fact jacketed.


27 posted on 02/26/2012 10:52:14 PM PST by expat1000
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To: LukeL

1000+ ft/sec helps.


40 posted on 02/27/2012 9:23:53 AM PST by Lady Jag (Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught)
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