Man finds possible bullet hole in his car??

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Only available to FB users im afraid and also points to the fact that im apparently a dull man.
Strange story though, man returns to his land rover and finds a hole in it. So he's asking what people think might have been the cause.
Most are saying a bullet and not .22lr, id tend to agree.

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Now my 24 year old Land Rover is quite battle scarred - it has had a hard life, but this is something new. It happened about 6 weeks ago. It is quite exciting (sorry!). I have a hole in the bonnet...
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I saw this and thought fake... yes the hole on the bonnet is feasible, but the 2 perfectly round "exit" holes each side of the hinge look wrong (both being exit holes) the length and perceived angle of the "bullet" strike to the bonnet (from its length) suggests a shallow angle which may have then damaged the snorkel and mirror, but not after causing the holes underneath?..
Just my thoughts 😉
 
I shoot a caravan park, and on my first visit, one resident popped out for a chat and mentioned that she hoped I wouldn’t shoot her van !

Obviously not, says I, to which she replied, “ it’s happened before “
She then shows me the hole in the plastic window and comes out with a box with a .22 lr head in it !!
 
enfieldspares said:
When I was a kid some places sold black (or white) bullet hole transfer stickers.
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Yes, I had it in my mind that you got them with a few gallons of petrol, like you used to get drinking glasses, but you may be right. You'd see car boots or windows that looked like someone had let fly with a machine gun. Sometimes used where there'd been some damage.
 
Bullet holes. Here's a story. Or Part I. Part II I'll save for another day of my best shot I ever made with a revolver.

Interestingly enough...or not...before the handgun ban the indoor range where I shot was approached by a mature student studying art. He wanted an aluminium sheet on the front face of which he'd etched "Dirty Harry" to have six rounds of .44" Magnum through it.

So he could present that for the art task he'd been set.

So said range takes "Dirty Harry" and fires one round of .44" Magnum through it. Brings it out from the range to the "shop" area and asks if that is what was wanted. "Oh no. The spreading out and peeling back of the metal is supposed to be on the front. Not the back!" Hmm. Well, yes. As you do!

So it was explained to him that when a bullet was shot through metal the bit with all the spreading out an peeling back was always on the rear face. Not the front face. "Ah! In that case can you turn in around and shoot it the opposite way?" Which was done. And gave the desired result to the front face.

And both were happy, student and shooting range proprietor, at the price in 1990 of six rounds at £1.00 a round.
 
enfieldspares said:
When I was a kid some places sold black (or white) bullet hole transfer stickers.
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Still available just google them 👍

I know of someone shooting from the roof of his car, forgot the barrel was lower than the line of sight of his scope and put a bullet clean through the one of the roof bars used to attach a roof rack.
 
Something similar happen round here about 20 years ago when a car travelling on the main road was hit by a bullet.
At the time there was speculation as to where it had been fired (about a mile away) and who was the shooter but nothing was proven.
 
Afraid that I seem to recall that post from a long time ago, looks like a dull man has reposted it as his own.
 
Given that after shooting a hairy animal (not one with a steel skin) I can often find bullet fragments left behind, surely if a bullet had done this then there would be bits of bullet everywhere within the path is supposedly took.
Given there is no comment of this or any photos of inside the engine bay, I suspect it’s a fakey fake!!
 
I know of two Land Rovers that had (have) genuine bona fide bullet holes in them.

The first a swb air portable that a keeper friend of mine had as his work vehicle back in the early 90s. It had been fitted with a hard top, the type with the ribbed reinforcements along the outside on the top.

He had parked it up on a ride while he went to feed a pen one morning, while feeding he heard a rifle shot from the estate stalker close by but didn’t take a lot of notice of it.

When he returned to the LR & chucked the empty feed sack & bucket into the back he noticed an elongated hole in the side of one of the ribs on the roof so he wondered around & up the front of the roof in the same rib was another hole… bullet had gone in one end & out the other!

The stalker didn’t last much longer on the estate after that - his only saving grace having been that whilst he’d shot two holes in the roof of the LR he hadn’t increased the number of leaks in it when it rained 😝

The second was a self inflicted classic where the gent involved was using a rolled up jacket as a rest on the bonnet of the LR while checking his zero.

First shot didn’t hit the target & as he lifted his head off the stock he saw why… barrel below line of sight & hole in opposite side of bonnet!
 
Three shots off the bonnet, only two registered on chrono. No exit.
I was parked in my local town & came out of a shop to find a small boy & his father staring at my Landrover. Father says "I hope you dont mind, my son loves Land Rovers. So I showed the boy the bullet hole, and told him I shot my Land Rover. He said, "cor blimey, what did you do that for?"
I said " I dont know, I love my Land Rover,...... But sometimes you have to shoot the ones you love."
The father quickly turned & ushered his son away down the pavement, followed by his wife. But after 25 yards his wife turned round & winked & smiled at me. She knew exactly what I meant. I still smile when I think of that.
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This made the press in Ireland years ago.
F'wits trying out a .22 magnum I think. Leaning on the roof of their car and firing shots. On seeing no visible impacts on their target they discovered a line of strike marks on the roof of the car beside them!
A sentence with the word Darwin springs to mind.
 
I knew a friend that had multiple shot marks/scratches across the hood of his truck. He actually put them there.

I had hunted with him at the same spot the day before and we had some great luck, walked up a bunch of pheasants.

He and another buddy went back the next day, and walked one side, got a couple pheasants and then laid them on the hood of the truck (I know, I asked the same, why didn’t he put them on tailgate? ) while they walked the other half.

He came back to see a mangy feral tomcat on the hood, eating his birds. Without a thought he used his shotgun to “resolve the issue”. Needless to say, we reminded him of the event every time he showed up with his old truck
 
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