backyard hunting woes

edenwildfood · Feb 5, 2020

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So we have all done something stupid in our time, my most recent one was after a session out pigeon, starling and sparrow bashing on a friends farm I came home and put my air rifle away. The next day I pulled it out to take out a squirrel eating our peanuts. What hadn't immediately occurred to me is I had it sat maxxed out on magnification and this led me to not noticing my muzzle was a little low out of my window, and me taking a chunk out of the edge of my window frame trim, and the squirrel giving me a look like "what was that you moron" before it loped off.

Well if my wife saw that it would be the end of shooting at home, so quickly worked out what to do, JB weld has a product called plastic putty, its an epoxy putty you work together with your fingers and it starts to set in 30 mins, Initial cure is 3 hours and totally solid overnight.

managed to hide it yesterday and today sanded it back and painted it and it worked great, and you cant tell there was ever really a hole there.

So the moral of the story is take extra care shooting out of windows, and if you do mess up JB weld plastic putty is pretty good stuff, lol.

JadedC · Feb 5, 2020

It happens to the best of us. In a yt video Jim Chapman (American Airgun Hunter) said he once shot out the window of a rental car he was shooting out of. He made up a lie saying that he parked in a shady part of town and was broken into. It was pretty funny to hear him tell the story. Just take it as a lesson learned.

cea1960 · Feb 5, 2020

I did the same. I was shooting about 5' from the window to keep the noise inside and put a .22 pellet through the wood frame. Same window but another time as i squeezed the trigger the drape blew in front of the window and I put a hole in it. I quickly rearranged the drapes so the hole wasn't so visible.

JimNM · Feb 5, 2020

Truck mirrors tend to be a common pellet destination, too.

S97 · Feb 5, 2020

I too blew up a truck mirror by mistake once....

survivor45 · Feb 5, 2020

I too will shamefully admit I’ve shot out the window frame in my house. SMH

I won’t tell if you won’t

wahoowad · Feb 5, 2020

Done far far worse. We’ll leave it at that.

intenseaty22 · Feb 5, 2020

Been there, done that. Ask my BBQ Rotisserie ring.

TiredRooster · Feb 5, 2020

Yep......you have a lot of company.

I once split the hood on an F-150 wide open like a sardine can with a .35 Remington centerfire. Then.....walked around to the other side and had a rather large exit hole on the drivers side fender. Don't ask how that happened.........lets just say it was a mishap not much unlike your own. Be happy it was just a window frame.

Guest · Feb 5, 2020

You ever get frustrated with your chronograph and try to get the pellet just a little closer to the sensors to get it to read more reliably. I never have.

JungleShooter · Feb 5, 2020

I have not one, but three holes in my window frame.

They form a fairly tight shot group (not quite on "paper", but on paper in its raw form).

I could be rather pround of my marksmanship.

IF the shot group happened 100 feet downrange from the muzzle.

Not 5 inches in front of it!!

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(ADMIN: We really need a better shame emoji in our emoji set — posts like this simply demand it.

This one —

— just doesn't communicate the abyss of shame and hot flashes many of us feel when we write.

The shame emoji above I screen-shot — with a sub-12FPE of course, from AirgunForum.co.uk)

Respectfully and shamefully,

Matthias

Eddie_E · Feb 6, 2020

I have a block of wood in front of my shooting window now. Luckily it's just a shed window that cost me less than $50. I now realize I can't shoot anything at ground level from my window. All my targets are above waist high now.

Raden1942 · Feb 6, 2020

I learned about that little issue on my airforce condor. I didn't take I to account how high the scope was from the muzzle and shot through my dads folding table and the raccoon I was shooting at spit out his free cat food and I'm pretty sure gave me the finger on the way out of my yard. My dad was not entertained.

Spartan · Feb 6, 2020

Nailed a deck chair last month about 2 feet in front of the muzzle. Don't even ask...

It was LOUD and scared the crap out of me! Oops!

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bowwild · Feb 7, 2020

A friend who worked for WY Game and Fish told me it wasn't too uncommon to see bullet gouges on the hoods of trucks owned by pronghorn antelope hunters.

knothead · Feb 7, 2020

First off - win that the window was up !

I taught on the PD range for years, Mirrors and door posts were common early on, and often score well still today

We had less issues rifle wise with the leverguns than we did AR platforms. I have seen hoods and trunk decks claimed. I have also used my outside voice many days to save a vehicle body shop time.

We had a run and gun course of fire for rifles that included the tower and a few bowling pins at 50 yards. I have yelled "windowframe" more than once to prevent that from dying.

Sadly they don't shoot from the new tower, something about the electronics bla bla bla...

Good on you for fixing it

Glenroiland · Feb 9, 2020

Yup. Hit my stair rail twice before I figured out thats why I missed the spinner at 35 yards. Luckily its an iron rail, so no worse for the wear. And also fortunate to not get hit by any ricochet...

Redick · Feb 9, 2020

Your not alone

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FelixS · Feb 9, 2020

I nicked my finger shooting a Benjamin 397 while supported by my garage side door frame. I'll never hold it like that again

edenwildfood · Feb 9, 2020

Your not alone

Try the jb weld plastic putty. Shape, let it set, sand with 60 then 320 grit paper and then paint. Cant even tell now

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