The Dangers Of Skipping Bullets
by
Nicholas C
Published: April 21st, 2016
5.11 and Kyle Lamb talk about a possibility where taking cover behind the V of the car can be dangerous if not using all the cover available. Bullets can skip off the hood of a car and hit a target in the thoracic cavity. So you are best to lower yourself and decrease the amount of exposure to ricochets.
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I remember years ago reading an article in a magazine about a guy who was shooting at tin cans on the water with a .303 Enfield and the bullet skipped and went over a mile and killed a young girl driving down the freeway who was in her car. At first the doctors could not figure out what killed her until they looked behind her ear and saw the bullet hole. Later they did catch the guy who fired the rifle.
When I went through Coast Guard small arms training school back in 1982, we had an FBI agent come to.the school to give us class. We had a 30 ft tall revetment that had a concrete wall on one side. He put 4 balloons at one end of the wall, then took up position at about 30%at the opposite end. Now these balloons were only about 8 inches around. He fired and hit about 12 inches from the opposite end of the balloons, and all 4 bullets travelled the 30 foot distance and destroyed all 4 balloons. So they travelled 30 ft. At less than 8 inches off the wall. So we learned that if we are going to use our patrol cars as cover in a gunfight, you need to be behind the your wheels, preferably the front wheels and engine, that will prevent getting hit with the skip.