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TURN UP YOUR SOUND. I WOULD ASSUME THIS GUY WENT TO CHURCH RIGHT AFTER THIS HAPPENED. I HAD TO WATCH TWICE TO SEE WHERE THE BULLET HIT WHEN IT CAME BACK.

A 2,000 Yard Ricochet:

This guy is shooting a Barrett M82A1 50 caliber sniper rifle – a Green Beret staple! Watch the dust when he fires.

The target is a steel plate 1,000 yards away (.57 miles or 10 football fields away). You can hear the ping of the hit on the target and then listen carefully for the bullet coming back. It hits the ground just in front of him (look at the dust cloud at 2 seconds from trigger pull).

The 50 caliber bullet then bounces up and hits his ear protection muffs, knocking them off of his head. The footage is amazing. If you haven't heard the sound of a bullet ricochet before, you will hear this one.

Consider the probability of the bullet hitting the ground in exactly the right place to bounce up at the correct trajectory angle to hit his ear protection. Fortunately, the angle of the plate he was shooting at, changed the return trajectory of the bullet by “6 inches to the left" - a distance of more than 2000 yards worth of total travel.

If the deviation of the returning bullet was anything less, it would have been a 2000 yard round trip “one-hop-head-shot", instead of an earmuff clip...