Shot in the face on skeet field

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Mods, not sure if this is general or shotgun, but here goes. So Mama Distra and I were shooting a couple rounds of skeet this afternoon and at station 2 I shot the pair no problem. About 1/2 second after breaking the low 2, I get smacked hard in the left cheek. The spot was swollen and bleeding a little. I finished out the round headed to the truck. Put my stuff away and while cleaning up I checked my cheek in the mirror. Low and behold I see what looks like #9 shoot stuck in the side of my face!:what: I dig it out and sure enough it was #9 shot. :eek: My question is how in the h*ll did I get shot in the cheek with one pellet from what I think was my shot? Is is possible for a richocet off the high house or high house window?:confused: There was another crew shooting on an adjacent field to my right, but I don't think it came from there. Anyway it had enough energy to break the skin and embed in my face.
 
gotta have pics for this one...

What kind of shotgun? O/U, SxS, Pump, or Semi? Are you a lefty? Were you shooting #9? Reloads? Where was the rest of your ammo in relation to you? is there porting on your barrel?
 
Probably bounced of the target itself. You shoot enough of them and you'll see it now and then. Unusual to hit you hard enough to embed. Glad you're okay and you're the perfect reason to always protect your eyes, even while back spectating.
 
Crazy things can happen. It is why eye protection is always recommended on the range.

Glad your not hurt!

:)
 
O/U Browning, shooting reloads (#9), right handed, no porting, ammo in my bag on the right hip.

My wife suggested it could have come off the target itself. Man that's tough to for me to believe. You barely touch those things and they break. I guess anything is possible. Eyes and ears all the time even watching.
 
Could've bounced off another pellet in mid-air.
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Only if something caused a pellet to slow up, so a pellet behind could catch up and hit it. Like fragments in an explodsion, the first pellets out of the muzzle are going the fastest and the last are the slowest. The pattern is always expanding, in 3 dimensions, as the shot cloud goes down range. Pellets can not catch up and bounce off a pellet that left the muzzle in front of it.

So I'm guessing the pellet that hit the face bounced off the target, or off a pellet that had ben slowed by the target.
 
Darn it, Loosedhorse beat me to it.....

I know that BB's can ricochet from clays stood on end on a fence rail.
 
Could be a ricochet. Once when we were shooting birdshot loads, I was standing behind the other guy, and I felt something hit my face. It felt sort of like a small pebble, I figured it was probably birdshot. It's amazing how much energy it loses. Were you shooting at clay pigeons, or stationary targets like we were?
 
ive been hit a few times, never hard enough to embed though.

if you think your story is crazy, my shot was actually bouncing off plastic PVC target stands, and still have enough energy to come back and bite me in the face. and that is confirmed, you could actually see the shot leaving marks on the PVC

ive also had it happen on construction cones. not the stick ones, but the actual conical rubber-type cones. you can shoot those all day long with bird shot, it will bounce right off. even some 00 buck bounced off it :) kinda neat
 
I had a pellet bounce off a monitor someone left out at a shooting area, and hit me right under the chin. It stung a little, but mostly it was surprising. Since that incident I have never been lackadaisical about eye protection.
 
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