you never can tell what shape a bullet will take or which direction it will go.
Q. I am not talking of the direction. I am talking of the shape the bullet would take in ricochetting.
A. It depends entirely how it is hit. You wont get two alike fired at the same place in my experience. I mean, let us take and fire half a dozen round at that wall, let us assume for the moment that they all hit exactly the same place, they wont exactly all be the same shape afterwards.
Q. Will they flatten very much or take a very different shape?
A. One might flatten out there on the wall, an other one might just take a gouge out of the side or another one might take a bit off the top and nothing else and so on.
Q. What would be the strength of a ricochetting 75 feet or 100 feet ?
A. Well, this bullet leaves the muzzle at about 2375 feet seconds. At that distance I would say — how many feet, you say?
Q. About 75?
A. It would be just about — oh, 2350 feet seconds. You never can tell what exactly would pass. It is going to go by what it strikes; in each case there is something to allow; you never can tell.
Q. It might fall dead?
A. No, I would not say…
Q. It would necessarily ricochet ?
A. If you take a bullet fired against a steel plate, armor steel plating, it will flatten straight out.
Q. And fall dead ?
A. Oh yes.
Q. A brick wall ?
