Originally Posted by Steve Redgwell
I don't know why this myth perpetuates. It must be the movies or television.


Yeah, Hatcher debunked this myth decades ago by experiment.

Oddly enough he found .22 rimfire to be the most potentially dangerous. Sharp pieces of brass case could penetrate the skin - or an eye - at close range of course. Thin case, crimped bullet, fast powder and the case can give way before the bullet can release.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.