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BigRx
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Re: Frighttening Experience
27/01/05 07:56 AM

Vlad,

I echo everyone's best wishes for a speedy recovery. You were indeed blessed that you didn't receive lasting or debilitating injuries from that BIG slug.

I hope all on the board learn from your experience! I no longer shoot steel under 50 yards with a rifle after an experience with the dinky .17 Remington. At 35 yards or so the little 25 grain bullet was almost penetrating 1/2" steel. I thought just a little closer would do it and set the steel just 15 yards away. At the shot I felt a sharp sting in my belly. I passed it off as a biting insect, but a time later I looked down to a blood spot!

Almost half of that little .17 jacket was stuck on the surface of my belly and required disloding with my pocket knife.

I guess the moral of this story for us all is that even the littlest or fastest of our rifles are not safe on steel up close. I thought the fragile little .17 disintergrated to vapor against steel But It didn't.......

BigRx

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Frighttening Experience	vladimir	25/01/05 12:29 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	NitroX	01/02/05 06:25 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	CptCurl	01/02/05 03:01 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	AdamTayler	01/02/05 07:15 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	clark7781	28/01/05 09:54 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	BigRx	27/01/05 07:56 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	Metswedi	27/01/05 09:42 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	Brian	03/02/05 02:34 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	Karl	27/01/05 06:20 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	ALAN_MCKENZIE	27/01/05 12:47 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	DoubleD	27/01/05 02:54 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	470Rigby	27/01/05 05:23 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	ThomasEdwards	26/01/05 11:29 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	ridgerunner_ky	26/01/05 05:29 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	SOUTHPAWTOO	26/01/05 11:20 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	ATHiker07	26/01/05 09:32 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	Chasseur	26/01/05 07:28 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	EricD	26/01/05 12:59 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	bonanza	26/01/05 02:04 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	canada	26/01/05 04:58 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	new_guy	26/01/05 07:21 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	510Wells	25/01/05 05:10 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	AussieMike	25/01/05 05:16 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	SAHUNT	25/01/05 05:59 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	blackbearhunter	25/01/05 10:48 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	Bigfive	26/01/05 12:55 AM
Re: Frighttening Experience	500grains	25/01/05 03:45 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	foxfire	25/01/05 03:14 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	4seventy	25/01/05 01:43 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	wharf	25/01/05 01:39 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	vapodog	25/01/05 01:44 PM
Re: Frighttening Experience	mikeh416Rigby	25/01/05 12:41 PM

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