Know what your shooting at

[jhc77]

This is from the local paper in my old hometown. Apparently celebratory gunfire is still legal in the US minus a couple of states. What round is that?

http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-tr-nk-stray-bullet-in-home-1120-20131114,0,1184089.story

[Jonnin]

If it was fired into the air, it is unlikely it came down with enough force to go through anything.  Straight up shots won't even penetrate a roof (they come down slowish).  It was fired at less than 45 degrees, at a guess, making a freak hunting stray seem more likely ??

 

If that is the actual bullet, it looks like a pistol round.

Edited November 15, 2013 by Jonnin

[charlessummers]

Quote:

"According to the family member, there were also marks and dents on two other walls, indicating that the bullet ricocheted around the room."

 

So this thing entered the home, penetrated the walls, bounced around the room (according to the other picture the rooms were drywall), and the bullet was pretty much undamaged? Not saying the story isn't true... but WOW.

[musicman]

Looks like a crazy long 357. I have some 200gr Speer silhouette .357 bullets that look very similar. I'm at work and so I can't go check them out, but I think mine are a little more blunt/rounded at the end... not quite as sharp of a point as that.

[peejman]

A former coworker got hit in around the collar bone while walking from his car to his front door after arriving home from work one afternoon.  They determined the bullet was fired from a range about 3/4 mile away.  I think it was a .45, but I've slept since then.

 

He said it felt like getting stung by a hornet combined with a dull thud that knocked him a little off balance.  Lucky for him, his wife was already home.  She saw his knees buckle in the driveway and the rapidly expanding blood stain on his white shirt.  They didn't believe the EMT when he told them it looked like a gunshot wound.  They removed the bullet and he recovered fully. 

[Jonnin]

Its been squeezed thru a barrel, it may have elongated a little bit.  But i was thinking a heavy 9mm maybe. 

[RED333]

Rifle, 30 cal, is my guess.

Might be a 7.62 x 39.