...tumbled out..."
Posted on 11/22/2008 5:11:25 AM PST by jalisco555
Driving his John Deere tractor Saturday, Richard was suddenly thumped with a pain “like a hard punch jumped up” and bit him in the heart.
He bent over and grasped his sweater. Then he took it off to get a closer look. A .45-caliber bullet casing tumbled out, clattered onto the tractor and fell on the ground.
He’d just been shot.
It was a stray bullet, and it tore through his sweater, leaving a 1/2-inch hole, where it entered into the top center pocket of his coveralls and hit his cell phone.
The bullet, coming in at a 45-degree angle, busted the phone in two, but the impact halted its trajectory just enough to save Richard’s life
“It’s a miracle,” he said Tuesday. “Normally I put the phone in my inside pocket, but for some reason that day was different. Now I know why.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thesttammanynews.com ...
where can I buy one of those?
I saw that too. The phone had a dent in it, it wasn't broken. The bullet was a .45 FMJ. Some idiot was probably shooting at cans a mile away and a ricochet flew away. Full jackets skip off of anything and just keep going.
Still though a Long Colt would be a leaver action. Now we are kind of, maybe, in that someone was aiming at the guy. Still, unusual round found in old style rifles.
It's possible, but it would have to be an aimed shot.
We are still back to someone, not to far away, in a rural area, cracks a few off into the yonder and gets a guy in a tractor, in his cell phone.
Possible.
I still have my money, which is zero, on the set up square.
Quite right that you shouldn’t edit a story. If you like, you can put corrections or “sic” in square brackets, or add a comment.
Yes, almost anything could have happened, since this reporter is evidently clueless. Was it .45 caliber? Maybe, or maybe just a good-sized slug.
Someone mentioned a muzzle loader, and that’s possible. Some states have complicated hunting laws, with weeks set aside for bow and arrow hunting and weeks set aside for muzzle loaded hunting, as well as the regular season.
It must have been just about spent when it hit the cell phone, or I wouldn’t think something as thin as that would have stopped it. Most cell phones are plastic or very thin bits of metal.
I used to deer hunt with a .45-70. I have two, a trap door Springfield and an 1886 Winchester. The Winchester can use heavier loads, putting a 300 grain Hornady out at about 2,100 fps. The trap door is limited to lighter loads, about 1500 fps for the 300 grain load.
For comparison a .45 ACP pistol is commonly loaded with a 230 grain which comes out at about 850 fps.
I like the trap door — something about the long barrel and the “one shot, so make it count” appeals to me.
Is it reasonable to assume that your daughter became a lot more safety conscious after that?
Oh yeah....
The casing doesn’t travel with the bullet.
Idiot reporter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhysoS2DC8M
Or you could fire a .50 at a steel plate, only to have it ricochet right back at you, knocking off and destroying your ear muffs.
Speaking of editing the story - we saw the story on a local television station, and it was severely edited. I asked hubby after the news clip if he didn’t think something was missing from that story, such as the who, what, when, where, and how of the bullet.
This is the first I’m hearing of the area in which the victim lives, that hunters hunted in the woods near their home, and that gunshots were heard frequently there.
There was no mention of a possible source of the bullet in our local station’s story. It was as if it simply materialized out of thin air, fell from the sky, and struck the man’s cellphone.
...tumbled out..."
Don't you just hate when that happens?
One of the reasons I posted this story was to highlight MSM ignorance about firearms. Something to keep in mind when they write about the upcoming attempt to ban “assault rifles”.
I never said it didn’t happen. I merely said it made no sense the way it was written...
ok, so you have thought of .45acp and .45 colt. yup, both .45 caliber, but so is .454 casull, and .45-70. there’s also .45 cal muzzle loaders, .45 gap, .45-90, .45-100, .450 marlin, .458 win mag, .458 lott, the interesting winchester sabots that are a .45calibre bullet in a 20ga shell.. and a whole lot of others.
and liesler, first, 45 lever guns are not uncommon, i could find them at anytime. and it wouldn’t have to be an aimed shot. a .45 colt has more energy than a .44 magnum, and the .44 has been proven to be able to kill deer at an excess of 500 yards. a .45 colt could have been shot, even with a ricochet, and traveled a half mile or more to randomly hit this guy in the phone. could have gone much, much further if it had been a .45-70.
As I said before, the real problem here is that we don't know ANY of the facts because the reporter is an idiot and completely ignorant about firearms.
FMJ's are illegal for hunting - they're military rounds (the Geneva Convention and the state game laws have quite different ideas about what is proper).
oh, FMJ. sorry. hornady has a couple from 300-500 gr.
not that it really matters, its all speculation. but, look hard enough, ou can find just about any kind of bullet you want :)
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