Reminder to always know what is beyond your target.

[skers69]

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/07/16/news/local/doc469b763ae82a8261752558.txt

Glad no one got hurt.

Target shots cause scare at Cass Co. church camp
By the Lincoln Journal Star
Monday, Jul 16, 2007 - 08:46:14 am CDT
A Cass County Sheriff’s deputy was called to a church camp near Louisville on Saturday after campers heard gunshots.

Cass County Sheriff William Brueggemann said camp caretaker, James Dill, told the deputy shots were coming from north of Camp of the Good Shepherd at 10312 Agnew Road of rural Louisville.

Two vehicles in the parking lot had been damaged.

Campers were asked to stay inside the building until the source of the gunfire could be found.

Deputies walked north through a farm field and found Kyle Rohwer, 25, and Aaron Furrey, 18, shooting into a target placed up against a fence post at a residence nearby. The men were shooting rifles.

Brueggemann said the two were unaware some of their rounds were ricocheting off the ground and traveling 1 mile south. They were upset about the incident and that they could have hurt someone.

Rohwer and Furrey went to the campground to apologize and get the names of the owners of the car and pickup damaged.

Reports will be forward to the Cass County Attorney, though deputies didn’t issue citations.

 

[El Tejon]

RULE #4, PEOPLE!

The Four Rules are life. Follow them.

 

[MinnMooney]

Sounds like the two shooters were fairly resposible (after the fact, anyway) in that they owned up to their mistake and apologized face-to-face. I'd be interested to hear a follow-up and see if, in fact, they really end up paying for the damage to the vehicles. It'll probably cost in the several thousands.

 

[Christian for Israel]

idiots.

 

[Regolith]

There's one advantage to living in mountainous terrain....very large backstops are numerous and easily accessible.

 

[.cheese.]

was the mile wooded? or open?

 

[JoeHatley]

Knot heads. The heck of it is, there is a very nice range in Louisville.

Joe

 

[MinnMooney]

to christian for Isreal :

Thank you for your well written, articulate and carefully thought-out remarks (er, remark).

 

[JoeHatley]

Double-Tap.

Joe

 

[Dorryn]

unaware some of their rounds were ricocheting off the ground

Since when is a ricochet "knowing what is beyond your target"?

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Mile Downrange AFTER Ricochet??

Hmmm, what's that funny smell?

I could be wrong, after all I'm something of a novice myself, but I don't think so.

I would be more inclined to think those were out-and-out misses, or went-through-target-and-kept-moving.

Anyone have personal experience with a rifle round traveling an additional mile AFTER a ricochet off the ground?

Maybe there's something here for me to learn.

 

[Cosmoline]

I also wonder about this story. There's no way a round is going to go that kind of distance after hitting hard ground. Not any normal rifle round, anyway. Maybe they were shooting the sun.

 

[pacodelahoya]

Nothing to see here folks, move along(posted on wrong thread sorry)

 

[Tony50ae]

Actually you would be amazed to see that a rifle round after a richochet will travel pretty damn far. As far as a mile not sure but any vets of the Army or Marines can tell you stories of night fire at the rifle range. Yes alot of the guys would actually shoot high but you still could see the richochets off the ground travel far. Usually the tracer burnt out before you saw where the round would land at.

 

[eltorrente]

I can skip a rock across a pond, so I don't see why a rifle round can't skip a little further.

 

[Black Adder LXX]

Two vehicles in the parking lot had been damaged.

Two ricochets? Yeah right...

 

[larry_minn]

shooting into a target placed up against a fence post That suggests to me they were NOT shooting toward ground. Depending where they stood the rds goiing THRU target (maybe off side of post) could easily go a mile.
Glad nobody hurt. I have always worried in winter if frozen ground could make a bullet go half a mile. (I shoot from raise to backstop that would stop a 50bmg rd that is in lower area with hill going up behind it BUT the trees 1/4 mile have been removed as well as trees just shy of half mile AND buildings with hundreds of livestock are there. It should be safe.... But I like to stick to .22 and handgun more and more. (used to have no concern with rifle)