Odd shot at the range.

[skookumchuck]

I was poking holes in paper at the range this afternoon and when I walked out the 50 yards to check my handiwork I found this. I had noticed that one of the rounds [American Eagle 115 grain 9mm] was in the tray upside down. Maybe just the metal jacket without lead?

 

[jackrabbit000]

10 shots and you only hit the paper once? lol Just kidding, pretty cool to see actually. I wonder what happened to the lead core.

 

[skip1600]

The rifling seems a little to sharp for it to be empty from the start. Likely a poorly bonded jacket on a partial projectile.... But man is that ever cool

 

[JR Hartman]

when we shoot IDPA indoors, we often look at the crap left over in the sand trap. its under the 45deg steel plate where the bullets hit.

Many times we pick empty jackets out of the sand. Sometimes its from when a round hits the wood target stands. The jacket peels off the lead and the two go their separate ways.

other times they separate when they hit the sand or the steel.

these are just answers to the questions that I ask people with much more experience than I.

 

[Skinny 1950]

Best to check your barrel for any obstructions, that is very strange.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

Yo dis a richochet. It bounce off da floor and da jacket hit yo target

 

[CV32]

This:

Likely a poorly bonded jacket ...

plus this:

Yo dis a richochet. It bounce off da floor and da jacket hit yo target

is my guess.

 

[00Buck]

Yo dis a richochet. It bounce off da floor and da jacket hit yo target

Word life my homie lil' d from back in tha hood did a richochet one time.

He busted his gat at a dumpster an da jacket was all up in a cardboard box yo.

 

[skookumchuck]

10 shots and you only hit the paper once? lol Just kidding, pretty cool to see actually. I wonder what happened to the lead core.

Five shots, from fifty yards, and one's in the two and a half inch bull.

 

[enefgee]

Damn, that's tough paper.

 

[Darky]

Damn, that's tough paper.

Thats the first thing I thought too! LOL

 

[Hitzy]

We shot some steel plates at 100m with CZ steel core 7.62x54......the jackets would stick in the plates on the entrance while the cores punched through. First time we saw it there was some head scratching...looked like the bullets stuck into the steel like darts

 

[Phat Eagle]

Yo dis a richochet. It bounce off da floor and da jacket hit yo target

As usual, Dirt is on-target and making me laugh!! Love and respect Dirt!!!

 

[BCRider]

50 yards with a handgun? And was the target mounted on a board which was fairly close to the ground? It could be that you flinched or pulled a couple of shots and the jacket peeled off and stuck like this due to a ground bounce. Or it could be a shot from someone else altogether. If their bullet went through some wood or whatever that caused the jacket to peel the jacket could fly just about anywhere downrange.

 

[HammerHeade]

Damn, that's tough paper.

Best paper for bullet defense?

 

[skookumchuck]

50 yards with a handgun? And was the target mounted on a board which was fairly close to the ground? It could be that you flinched or pulled a couple of shots and the jacket peeled off and stuck like this due to a ground bounce. Or it could be a shot from someone else altogether. If their bullet went through some wood or whatever that caused the jacket to peel the jacket could fly just about anywhere downrange.

50 yards with a CZ-75. 11inch x 11inch paper on half inch OSB. The target was mounted about five feet high. I was the only guy at the range and three of the five rounds were on the paper. The box that this round came out of was from a case of 1000. I'll have a look at the rest to see if any are packed upside down. I miss more often than I hit at this distance but I like to kid myself that I don't miss by more than five feet