Originally Posted by
Jeff Ovington
Let's face bullets can skip and riccochet off of virtually anything in it's flight path
True but with a shallow angle water ricochet the bullet will retain 100% of it's weight and nearly all of it's velocity making it a very unique kind of ricochet. Ricochet's off other objects generally slow a bullet way down and break it up into smaller pieces.
Water ricochets are not just dangerous because of what is on the other side of the body of water they are also very dangerous because of how far they can potentially travel.