Mid-Tenn October Meet & Shoot -- Sunday, Oct 19th, 2008.

[TGO David]

[musicman]

Great pics!! Looks like it was a gorgeous day at the range... sorry 'bout the range nazis!

[Guest bkelm18]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but where can I get some of those shweet zombie targets???

[TGO David]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but where can I get some of those shweet zombie targets???

I ordered them from ZombieTargets.net

[Guest bkelm18]

I ordered them from ZombieTargets.net

Oh that is the greatest. Many thanks.

[Guest EasilyObsessed]

So bummed that I was able to make this one I need a good dose of amusing drama

You guys at least had a beautiful day for shooting.

[dcloudy777]

Great pics... glad someone got one of Tungsten with the Krink before it got all uncontrollable and attacked that busload of nuns...

DanO

[ShaunM]

Hey thats me in the bright green hat. Yeah i'm hot

[TripleDigitRide]

Hey thats me in the bright green hat. Yeah i'm hot

That's what happens when you where a darn hoodie!

[Guest db99wj]

Bunch of troublemakers! Ha!

[Guest monsterking138]

we should have seen the sign.

[ShaunM]

we should have seen the sign.

YEAH SO THE BULLET COULD HAVE DROPPED ON OUR HEADS

[Daniel]

back in 2003 on Saddam's birthday, Baghdad had like 70+ people killed from bullets returning to the ground after celebratory gunfire.

[ShaunM]

My point exactly.

[Oh Shoot]

back in 2003 on Saddam's birthday, Baghdad had like 70+ people killed from bullets returning to the ground after celebratory gunfire.

And you really believe that?

- OS

[TGO David]

And you really believe that?

- OS

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he might have spent some time over there given the inclusion of "Iraqi Freedom" in the signature image.

[Oh Shoot]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he might have spent some time over there given the inclusion of "Iraqi Freedom" in the signature image.

I don't care where anyone has been, assuming we are talking Planet Earth; spent bullets falling out of the sky, even 30 caliber size, aren't gonna do much damage to human beans. Bruises, possibility of chipped bone should it hit just perfectly on edge of bone and the like. No body penetration. Possibility of death right around 0%.

Maybe 70+ folks did die from bullets during Saddam's 2003 bday festivities, but they sure didn't die from those bullets falling from the sky via only gravity and their own mass.

- OS

Edited October 21, 2008 by OhShoot

[Guest bkelm18]

I don't care where anyone has been, assuming we are talking Planet Earth; spent bullets falling out of the sky, even 30 caliber size, aren't gonna do much damage to human beans. Bruises, possibility of chipped bone should it hit just perfectly on edge of bone and the like. Possibility of death right around 0%.

Maybe 70+ folks did die from bullets during Saddam's 2003 bday festivities, but they sure didn't die from those bullets falling from the sky via gravity.

- OS

And you would know by experience? There are several news stories contradicting your statement.

[TGO David]

And you would know by experience? There are several news stories contradicting your statement.

http://www.iansa.org/regions/aerial-gunfire.htm

First hit on a Google search.

[Guest bkelm18]

http://www.iansa.org/regions/aerial-gunfire.htm

First hit on a Google search.

Yeah. Shooting guns into the air is apparently pretty popular in East Knoxville. I've found a couple bullets on the ground around my work (the zoo). Every one of them was fully mushroomed from the impact. They were all FMJ. I'm no physicist, but taking one of those to the head probably ain't good for ya.

[Oh Shoot]

And you would know by experience? There are several news stories contradicting your statement.

My experience are the laws of physics and the maximum speed of falling objects in gravity.

All these stories of folks dying from "rounds in the air", are killed from bullets still in motion from force of the charge. They are not killed by the bullets simply falling from the air under gravity alone.

- OS

[Guest bkelm18]

My experience are the laws of physics and the maximum speed of falling objects in gravity.

All these stories of folks dying from "rounds in the air", are killed from bullets still in motion from force of the charge. They are not killed by the bullets simply falling from the air under gravity alone.

- OS

Sooo... whats the difference? Both of them are fired into the air and come back down... I don't think John Doe is going to care if the momentum from the bullet is from the charge or from gravity when it kills him. All bullets are going to still have force from the charge when they hit the ground unless they are fired straight up at 90 degrees and come to a stop at the apex and begin falling back to the ground.

[Oh Shoot]

http://www.iansa.org/regions/aerial-gunfire.htm

First hit on a Google search.

If you found it on Google it must be true.

Note that all the cases cited are from "celebratory gunfire", and aerial gunfire, and the like.

Those killed were NOT killed from rounds that were falling from just their own mass and gravity.

- OS

[TGO David]

Apparently Myth Busters did a segment on shooting into the air a while back. They found that bullets typically return to earth at about 90% of their muzzle velocity. Still enough to hurt someone or dent a car.

Of course there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to the effect that people can be or are killed by aerial shooting. Either way, anyone shooting into the air either intentionally or unintentionally has no control over where the round is going to come down. It's no wonder, then, that many agencies and private trainers teach muzzle-down as a way to control where an errant round might go.

Simple logic dictates that the latter affords a higher degree of predictability.

[TGO David]

If you found it on Google it must be true.

Since I'm reading what you have written on the Internet, can I likewise discard it as being erroneous? Dismissing information because of how it was found is a pretty silly way to argue a point.