Thread: Shooting Possums in trees

Vertically fired rifle bullets come back down backwards and still spinning. Angled bullets are likely to come down nose first unless very steeply angled. Shotgun pellets are way safer. I was hit in the neck by a shotgun pellet that was fired 'over the horizon' at a pigeon. It went through the pigeon, struck a bone and took a chip of the bone out the pigeon with it still attached, and struck me on the neck. The pellet and bone fragment stuck to my neck where it hit. It did sting. The bone fragment wasn't much bigger than the pellet (no. 7) but the pellet was lodged inside it. Distance was well over 100m.