Not having read the article (it's not a work-safe site), but..

Speaking as a competitor that's shot literally tens of thousands of
pistol rounds from .22 to .45 at steel plates and other hard targets
from as close as 20 feet, you will get splatter from bullets impacting a
hard surface. Good, well-designed targets send that splatter in safe
directions (splatter tends to follow the surface it impacts). Damaged
or poorly-designed targets can cause pieces and even large chunks to
come back at you. When that happens, you say 'ow' and look for what hit
you. Occasionally the splatter chunks (particularly jacket material)
draw blood and very rarely large quantities of blood, or hit somewhere
bad. This is IMO, the primary reason to wear good, wraparound safety
glasses when shooting and not some little John-Lennon-type glasses.

Hard right-angles and curved shapes are particularly bad at redirecting
splatter uprange. Avoid those if possible. Rubber tires and such can
also redirect rounds unpredictably.

Fast and light bullets tend to break up better than big slow bullets.
Some of the biggest chunks and even whole bullets that came back uprange
were at pin matches when competitors shot very heavy bullets at
relatively slow velocities, but even then the worst injury was a fat lip
from a particularly unlucky bounce-back.

- Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: guntotingliberals@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:guntotingliberals@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Xela
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:45 PM
To: guntotingliberals@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [guntotingliberals] "splash back", was Accidental
Dish-charge


McGiness, anyone...

What is "splash back" really?

Found this:
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/targetshot.html

What kind of situations make it probable? How to avoid it? How to
react when it occurs?

It sounds really scary to a newby like me...

Xela


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