The Armadillo Ricochet Incident

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Deputies say the bullet killed the armadillo, but bounced off the animal, hit a fence, traveled through the back door of the mother-in-law’s mobile home and the recliner in which she was sitting, striking her in the back.
Headline should have been, "Guy shoots mother-in-law in the back; blames armadillo."

Non-life threatening injuries for the human. Not so for the armadillo. So it goes.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... w-ricochet

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Re: The Armadillo Ricochet Incident

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fknauss wrote:What the hell caliber was he shooting?

Perhaps "I was shooting the armadillo" is the new version of "I was cleaning my gun".
The article says 9mm. It doesn't mention whether it was FMJ or JHP, nor it mention anything about standard, +p, +p+ velocity. Since it bounced off the armadillo instead of flattening, hitting a fence, and still traveled back 100 yards and did seem to hurt old woman much I would guess it was an FMJ.
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