[slayer14]

A Texas man was wounded recently after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his backyard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in the face.
Local authorities said the man, who has not been identified, went outside his home in Marietta, East Texas, at around 3 a.m. last Thursday morning. He opened fire after spotting the offending animal intruding on his property.
“His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo”, said County Sheriff Larry Rowe.
Unfortunately for the man, he hadn’t accounted for the armadillo’s hard shell, which deflected at least one of three bullets into his jaw.
The man was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where his jaw was wired shut, according to Rowe.

The animal’s status is unknown.

“We didn’t find the armadillo”, the sheriff said.



https://uk.yahoo.com/news/man-shoots...125949157.html


You have to laugh

[grease lightnin]

Holy shit. Didn't realize those fukkers' shells were so hard

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Is Opie ok???

[Auto Donk]

that's why you shoot them in the f'n head.....

another dumbass east texan

[slayer14]

Is it opie

[Cuse0323]

Glad he's alive so I can laugh. Hell, I'd laugh anyway. That's a hard damn shell though, damn. A .38 came back at him like a damn ping pong ball.

[dlowilly]

Not only did this Jewish writer force in a hannukah reference, pretty sure the story actually happened 2 years ago:

http://modernnotion.com/shoot-an-arm...ance-will-die/

[Cuse0323]

Not only did this Jewish writer force in a hannukah reference, pretty sure the story actually happened 2 years ago:

http://modernnotion.com/shoot-an-arm...ance-will-die/

Weird. I felt like I heard this one before when I first saw it. Yahoo struggling.

Ah, man. You made me give him a click to read that awful first paragraph.

[OTL]

Holy shit. Didn't realize those fukkers' shells were so hard

.38's have a tendency to ricochet off of hard surfaces. This dumbass should have known better.

[Auto Donk]

pretty rare to completely turn around a bullet.... I know I put .22 long rifle slugs through those dillo plated-shells a few times with no problem, and no riccochet....