It's the time of year for lots of leaf fires around my property. I got a few strips burning and once in control, sat on the porch with my sheridan to monitor the fires. I always have a 50 pound salt lick in the back. It sets 35 yards from the porch. I figured it would make a decent back stop to tape a target and commenced to plinking. There is a several inch cup shaped indentation on each side of the lick. My target was taped over one such cup....poor choice of positioning I was using ten pumps and fine tuning my scope as much as a sheridan will allow. I took a shot and the pellet came screaming back with a nice whiiiine I knew exactly what happened as it happened. That pellet hit on the left side of the cup and simply catapaulted back at me. I think it was coming with the velocity of about 12 pumps and more accurate at me than me shooting at the target. Luckily it struck the house right next to me. I took my plastic kitty litter tub filled with dirt back there for the next round. I don't know if anyone is as mentally challenged as myself, but thought I would pass this along...just in case

Watch out! You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

Sounds like no fun to me.
I remember and still have the 230 gr. round that came back from a 35 yard away bowling ball we were shooting at and struck me in the left lower ribs. Only a few people know about it as I am kinda ashamed of the incident and that was over 20 years ago.
I think all of us has shot at something that "shoots back" at one time or another. Most of us don't make the same mistake twice.
My dad always said "Learning can be expensive."

I'm glad you weren't injured.

Ron

You know, with no malice intended,
I think someone should start a "I did a really dumb thing once" thread. I know I could definately add a thing or twenty that I did over the last four decades...It's a wonder I lived LOL

On that note and FWIW, don't use NEVER EVER use Coleman lantern fuel to start your campfire

and if you do, remember to stop, drop, and roll.

I had a neighbor that tried to use his shop vac to siphon some gas once. His NEW garage is much nicer than the old one!

Flashback to when I was about 8 years old. It's dead of winter when things have a tendency to get real hard. Joe, Bob and me were in Joe's garage waiting for targets of opportunity to fly in to our suet pile in his backyard. We were firing stuff up in the garage. There was one of them hard black plastic bowling balls that is Ohio winter hard right now. This was a time when Daisy BB guns were much more powerful than today At least in our minds they were bad to the bone. I took the shot and it screamed back at me and hit me square on the head...the little head My house was two streets away and I was on a dead run holding my crotch. Up in my bedroom I slowly lowered my pants. I was scared to death that I would see some bloody pulp there. To my amazement.... I learned that BB guns had their limitations. What is it with bowling balls Ronb?

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

LOL.

I had a similar encounter with the Daisy on a winter day. The ricochet hit me square between the eyes. Not wanting mom to find out and enforce her own gun ban, I had to wait until I regained my composure before nonchalantly going back inside to secretly check for serious injury in the bathroom mirror. Luckily the red mark went away pretty quick and was left with only minor brain damage and a whole new respect for the Daisy.

Hey Ronb...I meant to ask...what the heck were ya shooting and why at a bowling ball
"was left with only minor brain damage and a whole new respect for the Daisy." I hear some might dicker with your choice of word...'minor' Red
"I had a neighbor that tried to use his shop vac to siphon some gas once. His NEW garage is much nicer than the old one!" My plan tomorrow is to use my shop vac to siphon out our fish pond...that has only frogs and no fish. I will be chuckling the whole time

Well, it was winter and a coworker, whom I have since learned not to trust his advice, told that a frozen bowling ball will really shatter when shot with a .45 acp. I happened to have just bought a STAR Megastar 14 round .45 acp and I was itchin to shoot something.
We set it out there by the creek and commenced to shootin. I must have really hit it dead center because the returning round hit me on the left side in the ribs..about 6 left of my two handed grip.
It didn't penatrate my heavy Carhart coat but, made a huge bruise about a foot in diameter around the left side of my chest.
It didn't blow me back like in the movies, but doubled me over and I thought for a few frantic seconds of getting rid of my coat and shirt that I was really hurt. Talk about "Here's Your Sign". lol

I threatened my friends not to tell anyone and said " I shot me, I will sure as hell shoot one of you!

It's been 20 plus years ad they still bring it up

I have caught a shotgun richochet when training now and again at the range, when the pellets hit a rock or something and comes back but I always think about that bowling ball which by the way, I threw in the creek( I had to get rid of the evidence and didn't trust my friends not to dig it out of the trash and torture me with it for a few decades.)

i had some similar experience with a daisy ten pumper. i shot at a cut of section of a tree with a copperhead bb it shot back and hit my wrist...that's the one and only time i ever dropped that daisy. never told my ma as she would've taken it away as fast as i dropped it... lesson learned...

I think i speak for all.. Shot my self in the foot and its happend a few times.

Me; I think i need a new air rifle

Wife; Why whats wrong with the one u got

Me; Nothing ( think to Quick )

Wife: Nuff said

Me; Bugger

talkin bout airgun incidents and others when i was a little kid in wickenburg arizona i was shoot at the side of the clubhouse in the back yard (1st thinking error) when i hear very load scream of my little sister i laughed like there was no way i hit her (2nd error) when she hears me laughing she leans over the top of the clubhouse and shoots me back with my best friends bb gun (3rd thinking error was why was my best friends bb gun in my clubhouse) hitting me in the left testicle



last summer i was at the range shooting with some SO deputies when one of them says i wanna try something and the next thing i remember was opickin my self up of the ground with a sore sternum i look down and there is a 40SW bullet stuck in my shirt