From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: [OT] Movie Gunfight Misconceptions (Was: Stupid 2 gun rule)
Date:	Sat, 10 May 1997 18:53:35 +0100

In message <970510013723_-1299036505@*******.mail.aol.com>,
Tuvyah@***.COM writes
>If you listen to most soundtracks (especially
>TV soundtracks) of gunfire, you'll often hear a ricochet every 3-4 shots. The
>real ratio is a lot smaller.

Depends where you were... on one live-fire exercise in Sennybridge,
doing a two-person fire-and-manoevre, we were getting maybe one in five
ricochets (advancing uphill through a gully, very rocky ground)

Didn't sound much like movie ricochets, though. What you really notice
is the buzzing a tumbling bullet makes.

And other times - even on that same exercise, on different lanes - you
could fire off all your ammo without a single ricochet.

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Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk