For all you budding snipers out there
 

Turn your sound up..........so you can hear.

This guy is shooting a 50 cal rifle.

The target is a steel plate, 1000 yards (.57 miles, 10 foot
ball fields) away.

You can hear the ping of the hit and then hear the bullet coming
back.

It hits the ground just in front of him, then bounces up, hits
the earmuffs, knocking them from his head.

If you haven't heard a ricochet before, you can hear the bullet
as it tumbles through the air on its course back toward the shooter.

For those of you that wish to, consider the probability the
bullet hitting the ground in exactly the right place to bounce up at
the correct trajectory angle to hit his ear protection, not over, or
under them.

Fortunately the tumble, or the angle of the plate he was
shooting at changed the return course of the bullet by 6 inches "left"
over half a mile's worth of travel distance (right eye dominant
sighting - left ear-cup impact).

Otherwise it would have been a return ‘one head–shot’,
instead of an earphone shot.

The message here is DONT F**K ABOUT WITH A 50 Cal :D (click on the pic)

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...liber11-11.jpg

What's a snipper?

ooops too many 'p's anyway i think the guy might well have 'P'ed his pants :norty:

lucky git, but big fun shooting one of these, i have.

Seen that before a few times, lucky guy!! They are extremely high powered rifles and ,although most of the kinetic energy was taken out of the round with the ricochet, that still could of done some serious damage!

Crazy.

Thats the barrett calibre 50. 1 deadly sniper rifle that has been around for years and is often used 2 take out anti personal vehicles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4eajfhB7Ug

Have a look at this video. Either watch it all or watch it from 4:40 just 2 get an idea of how big the bullet really is.

Holy moley!

That was very lucky not to hit him.

Not wanting to be an arse but no way was the target 1000yards away the bullet time in flight does not add up the bullet leaves muzzle at 2800fps and that has dropped to 2000fps by 1000yards assuming it releases half its energy it will return at a diminishing 1000fps meaning it would take at least 3 seconds from impact to return plus the 1.4 seconds from shot to target and that clearly is not the case in this clip.

i never bothered to do the math far too anal for me :)

and yes your an arse :lol1:

he may of had a home loaded round?

Yeah that's what I said. :Whatever_

You remind me of Garth off of Wayne's World..

No offence like :)

It could have been home loaded but it still wouldn't be fast enough to make that distance in that timeframe.

Garth:lol1::lol1::lol1::lol1::lol1:

Thats cool.. the other people there could have beenn injured instead! I love snipers and the film sniper is wicked... Just wish they did a brillant sniper game on xbox...

Live could be amazing.

Think of it as a prostitute..

Lies down and opens up

good 50cal shooting here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyjU7...eature=related

I was in a range many (many) years ago with the ATC. We were shooting .22's over 25 yards. Sat on a bench at the back waiting our turn and somebody managed to let off a shot that did a ricochet and hit the wall behind us. I think they did this by shooting at the floor first, although not quite sure.

Quite scary.

The whizzing noise - once heard, never forgotton.

Good Quote !

I don't remember that in Death Race 2000.