Thread: Internal richochet?

I shot 45 degrees downhill at a rabbit with a 22 sub and heard what I thought was a ricochet onto an iron clad shed nearby. I thought it was a safe shot being down into a very wet paddock with nothing much else around it. The shed was 20-30m away horizontally from the rabbit, so if the bullet did in fact hit it, it would have had to make a 45 degree turn inside the rabbit, which seems unlikely. Possible it glanced off its skull or another solid bit, but there's nothing very solid in a rabbit. It could have bounced off some other hard object like a stone too I guess but I'm curious to know if its possible for a bullet to switch trajectory that much internally.... anyone experience this before? If 'yes' that adds quite another dimension to making calls on what's a safe shot.

Edit: another thing I just thought of is that it didn't eject the case, which is unusual for 1050fps in that rifle (10/22). That suggests the bullet wasn't going very fast (not enough powder charge to eject), so going slower it would have a better chance of bouncing off a rabbit head... still seems far fetched to me.