• FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Genuine Question, when you randomly shoot shotgun shells into the sky like that. Is there a chance they land and hurt someone? Or do they scatter so much that no one will be seriously injured?

    • lemming741@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Happens on dove hunts all the time. As long as it doesn’t hit your eyeball, it’s less painful than a rubber band snap.

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      2 days ago

      The probability of one of those pellets hitting someone is so small that it wouldn’t even matter, but I think they would slow down to terminal velocity before they hit the ground. Would probably feel like an airsoft BB.

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        20 hours ago

        And even if they would hurt someone, this is a war zone where deadly bullets and ammunition are flying left and right, a few extra shotgun pellets don’t make much of a difference and not being spotted by the russian drones is probably saving much more lives than a few pellets might take.