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Originally Posted by Welshchris
from someone who has been shot by an airgun by some pillock that was bad enough.
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I was shot with an airgun by some pillock too. Me !
Just a ricochet though.
Nearly got hit in the face (a few times, can you believe it) on another occasion. This was back in 1996 when I was 19, I was out shooting with my .22 cal Webley Tracker and in the middle of a plowed field, I decided it was time to check the accuracy of the sights.
I gazed the field looking for a tempting target and I eyeballed a black rock (about 4" in diamater) about a hundred feet away. I laid down on the ground, took careful aim through the scope, fired and apparently missed. No dust or anything visible to indicate a hit on target. Lined up the sights again, fired and heard what sounded like a bee, but quite close. Lined up the sights again, and heard the same noise again. Repeated, only this time the "bee" flew past me, missing my cheek by inches. What the heck? So I walked over to the black "rock", it turned out to be a concave bottom of a very old fashioned dark green glass wine bottle, the glass was over an inch thick. The concave section was pointed directly at me. I could see about five little lead streaks on the glass (a good grouping, all within 1.5"), where the pellet struck one side, ricocheted off the next sending the pellet back in my direction ! A pellet reflector !
The sights were fine afterall.