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itsarufflifehere

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Have winchester 22, use for grounghog in cage and racoon in dogproof dispatching, can someone expand on richocet being discussed here.
Shells sold to me with rifle at gun shop are
Cci stinger 22lr, 22long rifle, copper. plated hollow point
 
Not a lot to discuss regarding ricochets. Be sure you shoot into a vertical backstop (of course shooting down into the ground constitutes a vertical (to bullet path) backstop). .22's and most any bullet, centerfire or RF tend to ricochet if bullet hits a horizontal surface.
 
As long as you are walking up to the traps and shooting towards the ground, there should be little chace of ricochet. Shooting horizontally, thats a diffenent story. Hard projectiles hitting hard objects (rocks, steel traps, etc) cause non-frangible bulltes to ricochet.
 
Yep… not much more to add about what has been said. Shooting closer to this ⬇️ angle than this ➡️ angle and you shouldn’t have any ricochet.
 
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As a cop I've been to block parties many times where someone discharged rounds into the ground... I guess trying to impress everyone. It's a common thing in the hood.

Last weekend we responded to an incident where someone fired off about 25 rounds of 7.62x39 into the ground. The multiple impacts in the ground that we could see were between three to four steps in front of the pile of casings... multiple bullets ricocheted back up striking a car that was in-line with the impacts that was about another ten steps away at belt level. One was a keyhole type impact. Fortunately, no one was in the path or in the car. There was a very large crowd, several hundred, it's a wonder no one got hit.

Bullets do odd things... even shooting directly into the ground can be unsafe. Plenty of videos on YouTube with tracer fire to demonstrate just how much bullets ricochet.
 
Especially w/FMJ bullets. With the impact 3-4 steps in front of the pile of casings, I would guess the angle of impact to be about 20-25* (assuming normal ejection would put the empties at least 6' in front of the muzzle." That would dictate impact of at least 12-15' from muzzle. Not surprised @ ricochets w/those angles. They were indeed lucky no one was injured.
Bowhntr6pt said:
Last weekend we responded to an incident where someone fired off about 25 rounds of 7.62x39 into the ground. The multiple impacts in the ground that we could see were between three to four steps in front of the pile of casings...
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Bullets that pass thru animals in cage traps can damage cage wires. You don't want any lose or damaged wire, especially with coon they will work that area. We used 22 shorts for cage coon. A high power .22 cal pellet rifle will work also, dog proofs. Cage trap, muzzle needs to be inside the wire, pellet rifles often have large muzzle attachments.
 
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