Question for the group. Has anyone here ever done any research or seen a study on how far a ricochet 9mm bullet could potentially travel?
Here's the scoop, they built a new church about 420 yards away from the end of our range. Not directly down range but at about about a 45º angle and across a highway. Today I got word that it was reported to the Sheriffs department that they found a 9mm bullet in the church parking lot and it's speculation that it came from our range. From what I was told the bullet found appeared to be in pretty good condition with a dent on one side. Our berms are 30-50' tall around the range, and I'm pretty sure if a round left our range via ND and directly hit a concrete parking lot, it would be more than just dented. The only other possibility for it to have come from our range would be a ricochet off say a falling popper. What do you folks think......if the stars all aligned, do you think it's even possible that a 9mm bullet could strike a falling popper at just the right angle, clear a 30' berm and have the energy to travel over 400 yards to land softly in a church parking lot?
Now nobody is getting too upidy about it, and the sheriff here is very pro-gun and has actually shot at a few of our matches and the church is a VERY conservative christian group, so I don't think they are out to get us. I just don't like our range getting scapegoated for something that seems highly unlikely to me