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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
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Reminds me of a story I heard about a friend of a friend (so grain of salt and all) who worked as security at a nuke plant. They've got a well-stocked armory and he liked to borrow guns to shoot with in his back yard.
He had brought a .50 cal rifle home and was shooting cans or something with a hill as a backdrop.
Then the cops showed up. Turns out the bullets were going through his targets (assuming he was hitting them), then passing right through the hill and hitting a house on the other side whose occupants called the police because they thought someone was shooting at them from the hill.
Not sure if anything came of it afterwards, though I remember he wasn't allowed to borrow guns from that armory anymore.
unless it was a very small hill made mostly of weeds or some other vegetation, I strongly doubt it. sand/earth will stop bullets quite effectively.
edit he may have shot over the hill though, perhaps? there's quite a high arc when shooting a bit further, which I assume he was doing with a .50 cal
that was the part that was unrealistic for you?
pfft lol
I assume it was either America where I assume 50 cals are like umbrellas, or s former Soviet country with so and so nuclear security.
Yeah I don't know the details, though as I understand the story, he was shooting at the targets so would have at least gauged the bullet drop unless he was missing entirely. But for all I know, the "hill" might have just been a small rise that immediately dropped off. Or maybe it was angled such that it was actually ricochets hitting the house or even rock fragments as bullets were obliterating bits of rock.
I'm thinking if he had like slightly higher ground towards a high so he's shooting just slightly downhill, and the hill is "too close", then he might feasibly shoot over it at a house behind it. So for instance the sights are supposed to be adjusted to 200 yards and the hill is somewhere around 100 yards away, then it would be about at the apex of the trajectory of a sight set for 200.
Ugh I don't remember it properly but when we shot with 7.62's in the army, iirc, the bullet arc was something like 30cm on a 150 or a 300m shot. I don't remember which.
That would definitely make sense yeah. A loud boom and something hitting your building, you'd think someone is shooting at you sure enough.