Several years ago I saw a thread on a hunting forum where a guy asked if anyone had ever shot their own car, and then proceeded to tell what he had done, which was this.
What followed was a classically funny series of admissions of how otherwise reliable dudes had accidentally perforated their transportation.
I saw that happen to a guy a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteIs it commonplace to bring cars onto the shooting range in the States? Or do people hunt from their cars?
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I used to belong to a range, and it was good, but mostly we will drive out to the woods, or desert (Nevada is close to where I live, for example) to do our shooting. Often the hood presents a handy place to set the rifle and shoot from, which is what the guy in the photo apparently did. I've got a couple of tables I like to use for this.
DeleteOne guy I shoot with once brought a couple of bowling balls into which he had driven eyebolts. We hung them from a tree branch, and blasted them. That was classic.
Hunting from cars is seen as bad form, and is in many places illegal. Use the cars to get to camp, or to where the horses are unloaded, then hunt on foot from camp.
Yes, it IS bad form. Illegal, too, in many countries.
DeleteHalf the joy of hunting consists of walking in the countryside, if you ask me.
What happened to the bowling balls when you shot them? Sounds like expensive fun.
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He got them at a yard sale for something like a dollar each. They broke like onions, in layers. They also made a weird sound when hit.
DeleteMost of the fun of hunting is the process, the hunt, if you will, than the actual kill. And the cooking and eating afterwards, of course.
We always take trash bags and try to leave whatever spot we shoot in cleaner than we found it.
When I was an instructor at a multi-agency academy, we used to use old Ford Crown Vics in teaching shooting from concealment/cover. Several of them had skid marks on the hood from shooters assuming their sights and their bores were on the same plane. I never actually saw anyone do it, though. On another occasion, a student was shooting across the deck lid (trunk), and the concussion from his shot crystallized the rear window. (Sadly, I didn't see that one happen, either, but I saw the aftermath.)
ReplyDeleteI've seen some big bore rifles shot off the hood, and the concussion can be enough that it's obvious it's not a good idea. I'm sure the engineers in Detroit and Tokyo don't plan for a 30-06 going off two and a half feet from the windshield.
DeleteThis was, I think, the genesis of the USN OP4. They included hundreds of pics of ships that had not nailed down their firing lines and shot at turrets, gun-tubs, antennae, the bridge wings, the actual superstructure...It was a pictorial of failed gunsmanship on navy warships. There were a of examples.
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