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Donnie Buckley V.I.P. Cleveland, Ohio 1123 Posts |
Today I got a phone call from the wood shop. My master furniture maker is in the process of ripping some walnut for rails on new Close Up tables we are building for the http://www.RNT2.com store. He tells me that the saw blade hit a BULLET that was embedded in the walnut and a piece of the bullet SHOT out of the blade, put a hole in his shirt and hit him in the chest. It struck in his chest and drew blood!
I'm not going over to the shop until Friday, but he says he saved the piece that he pulled out of his chest and the piece of walnut. I'm bringing a camera. He says it's copper jacketed, so it's not a Civil War era round, but it could be over 50 years old - it was IN the wood. I mean really, what are the odds? He says he's now "street" because he has a bullet hole in him (its just a superficial wound really and all he needed was a bandaid). The walnut originated from PA. Who says building magic is DANGEROUS? |
gimpy2 Special user 960 Posts |
I hit one of those running some oak flooring.Lucky it stayed in the wood,probably because it was just a ball of lead. It was going in a lodge so we installed it that way,Still there.
glad to hear nobody got hurt to bad Gimpy
Gimpy
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
Have you ever fired a pistol or rifle into the sky and wondered where the slug came down??
When we had the shop in Tennessee there was 50 acre woodlot down the hill in back where I culled wood for wands and tables. I was cruising the woods one afternoon looking for a piece of wood when I got punched like a mule and got a burning hot sensation in my left shoulder. I grabbed my shoulder and looked. It was a .22 long rifle slug. It had come DOWN and hit me on top of the shoulder putting a hole in my shirt. Somebody up a mile away fired into the sky and by a strange fluke I happened to be standing there looking at some trees. I still have the slug. -=tc
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
We once found a slug in between the two panes of insulated glass of one of the windows at the building where I used to work...
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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jay leslie V.I.P. Southern California 9498 Posts |
You have just invented Bullet Between Glass, I want one.
Jay Leslie
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Donnie Buckley V.I.P. Cleveland, Ohio 1123 Posts |
Great anecdotes guys.
My particular fascination with the incident I described is the amount of TIME that passed between the round being fired and the round hitting Dan, the carpenter, in the wood shop. It could be decades. And how cool would it have been if the slug had been a musket ball? I'm pretty sure that Dan is keeping this as a momento anyway no matter how old it is. I still have not seen the slug. |
Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Now if we could get the Taliban types to celebrate more (shooting in the air) it might help thin the herd.
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
I think the theory is that you have to shoot straight up on a day with no wind and not move. If the bullet comes straight back down you win.
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TheRaven Special user 597 Posts |
Norm Abram on the New Yankee Workshop runs a metal detector over reclaimed wood before he starts working with it. Mostly to make sure all the nails are gone so it doesn't ruin the cutting edge on the equipment. I thought that was a bit of overkill. Maybe not.
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Rizzo Inner circle East Coast 3346 Posts |
Interesting. At 1st I didn't even consider the lunatics who fire bulets in the sky thinking they just disappear.Tabman you are a lucky dude as a hit in the shoulder is bad but it could have been worse.Also the furniture maker is a lucky man as well. Could've been a bullet to the balls or an eye.
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
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On 2009-08-05 00:17, Rizzo wrote: Me either. In fact Ive fired into the air when I was younger living the country life but I havent done it since being shot with one myself. -=tabman
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Gloria ever shoot straight up? I know she's a world-class sharpshooter.
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
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On 2009-08-05 12:37, Pete Biro wrote: Yes, former Olympian from 1984. No, she would never. Only drunk Cowboys, rednecks, and idiots and former idiots would do it. And Im working out the trajectory to get that sharp bamboo stick headed your way. Are you in LA or Carmel?? You know, you just got me thinking about my next bullet catch stunt. Takes all the danger out of having someone else do the shooting. Straight up and straight down. Woo hoo!! -=tc -=tc
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malaki Elite user 490 Posts |
This is an old thread, but the danger is still real.
Always check found or harvested lumber with a metal detector. There have been many cases of people finding bullets and other items within the wood they are cutting. In 1970, a tornado went directly over my dad's house. A maple tree that he had planted in his side yard, by that time about 8" in diameter, had been split right down the middle, almost to the base. Rather than remove yet another tree from the neighborhood (the elm lined street was left with three trees), he drilled a couple of holes through the tree and drew it closed with 1/2" bolts sporting 2" washers. He figured that the tree would either live or die. It lived. When he moved from the house in 2006, the tree was in excess of 12", all of the hardware fully encased within the trunk. Anyone who tries to salvage the wood from that tree is in for a massive surprise. The tree still lives to this day... |
MeetMagicMike Inner circle Gainesville Fl 3501 Posts |
This would be a good plot twist for a mystery show. Man found shot dead in his shop. Who did it? Turns out the bullet was shot 50 years ago.
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malaki Elite user 490 Posts |
Especially with the lack of powder burns and the door being locked from the inside....
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