Me too. I was at Scout camp, and several of us who already knew how to shoot (my grandfather taught me) were passing our time trying to shoot each other’s clothespins off our targets (if you shot your clothespins off, you got ejected, so we were trying to shoot each other’s off), and I missed, hit a rock, and Bzing! Straight up movie ricochet sound.
Of course, they shut down the firing line and read us the riot act immediately.
I knew exactly which video that link went to!
Shot an air gun (BB) at a pile of rocks and got a ricochet that came back toward me, nice loud squeal with plenty of doppler effect as it came by. A hazard for my teenaged self (no eye protection), and also for domestic tranquility; I was relieved that none of the porch windows behind me got hit.
One time I was shooting some low-velocity lead at competition. A bullet from my gun hit the target, jumped almost straight backwards and struck a bystander. It left a little bruise on his skin. He picked up the squashed bullet and handed it to me.
I’m not really either, but I clearly remember observing someone firing an M240 for the first time and absolutely lighting up the general vicinity of a target. (As in, the target may have been hit a time or two, at a considerable expense in terms of ammunition. The term “pray and spray” doesn’t quite do justice – maybe, “I’m going to go stand way back here, far behind you” is more appropriate.)
I heard that ricochet sound a few times during that particular show, and others laughed about it.
I heard the ricochet sound firing an airgun, and felt the pellet hit me at pretty much the same time I heard the ricochet. No injury, but scared the crap out of me.
Depends on the round and what it bounces off of. Or maybe more to where you are in relationship to the event; are you hearing the hit or the noise of the round after the hit? I have heard everything from the classic movie noise to something more closely related to the “pffft” noise Hollywood uses to denote a “silenced” round.
I’ve heard ricochets a number of times - 7.62 nato rifles mostly. The sound varies from a buzz, to a high pitched whistle/scream to the typical western loud and nasty ricochet sound.