WB
I've shot myself three times like that.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020, 08:41

Once testing an old Break Top S&W .38 with Pyrodex and a 9mm cast bullet. It hit the 1/2" plywood and then hit me in the chest! Scared me.

Then as a youth I shot the crotch of an old Black Jack Oak out my bedroom door with a 1858 Remington clone and a 150 gr. RB ahead of about 30 grs. FFFg. It came back too fast for the eye to see and hit me in the shin. Then it hit my sliding glass door so hard I thought it broke it. It also alarmed everyone in the house I was into mischief, soliciting all sorts of chaos and questions while I surveyed my peril. Lovely.

Another time (you might take note) I shot a plastic 55 gal. drum with a shotgun and pretty big pellets (#5?) at around 30 yds. Actually the patterning target was in front of the sand filled drum. The pellets, a lot of them (!) bounced right back and peppered me and the barn pretty well. I got at least one in the face. While I wear thick glasses, they are no substitute for safety specs.

In high school one of the guys shot a steel car wheel with his .357 JHP and the bullet fragmented with at least 3 pieces hitting him hard enough to penetrate and garnered him a hospital stay. I remember that.

Be careful what you shoot at. Testing on an old demo derby car we found that a .357 (can't remember the ammo) may or may not penetrate one door. It depends on what it hits in that door frame. It can go through both sides or not even make it through the first. Is the glass rolled down? (a barrier) or fully rolled up? (clear sailing). Glass too was very dependent on the angles. So many variables, be careful!