Ricochet Sound Effect

📝 Description

The ricochet is the western genre's signature sound — that whining, singing pyoing of a bullet declining its original destination and improvising a new one. Cartoons adopted it so thoroughly that the sound now reads as comedy first: danger that misses everyone and departs with a flourish. Use it for near-miss moments, deflected insults, and plans that bounce off reality at unexpected angles. It also serves canyon scenes, action parodies, and any edit where chaos needs a comic trajectory. The ricochet never hits; it just announces, dramatically, that something almost happened.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:02

Format

MP3

File Size

32 KB

Added

June 12, 2026

⚖️ License & Source

This sound is released under the CC0 license (public domain) — free to use in personal and commercial projects, no attribution required.

Original recording by aust_paul via Freesound. View original source →