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muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/27/14 04:26 PM
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muzzle breaks.... Great for reducing recoil so you can extinguish an entire sounder of hogs.... Bad for truck mirrors. No, it was not shot, the muzzle was just over the mirror, and when my buddy shot, the blast blew a hole in the back of it (non glass side) which also broke the glass. Did kill five pigs though...
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#4936490
01/27/14 04:30 PM
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txshntr
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Never seen it, but heard of people that shattered the windshield by laying across the hood. I have felt the burst from my 300UM and wouldn't doubt it a bit.
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#4936506
01/27/14 04:34 PM
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BOBO the Clown
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Sure looks like a bullet hole in that second picture.
Pant buckets and mirrors...
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01/27/14 04:37 PM
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nope, def not a bullet hole.
If you look at it up close, it is clear that it it not a bullet hole, also I dont think much of the mirror would be left at all if the bullet and the muzzle blast coming out the end of the rifle hit it that close.
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01/27/14 04:44 PM
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SniperRAB
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Now thats a Whiskey Dent
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#4936539
01/27/14 04:48 PM
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dawaba
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The concussion of an un-braked .30-06 shooting across the hood of my pick-up once caused the rear-view mirror to "unglue" from the windshield and fall to the floorboard.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple.....and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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01/27/14 04:59 PM
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Navasot
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Yeah I shot a 300wsm across the hood of my truck one time... the windshield that had a small crack in it now looks like a spider web on one side
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01/27/14 05:07 PM
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I want to know how your gonna explain that one to your insurance agent!
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#4936595
01/27/14 05:10 PM
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I want to know how your gonna explain that one to your insurance agent! new mirrors run about 30 bucks.
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#4936600
01/27/14 05:11 PM
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#4936620
01/27/14 05:21 PM
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BOBO the Clown
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Sure looks like a bullet hole, think your buddy owes you a new mirror
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#4936622
01/27/14 05:22 PM
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moderno
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Bartender, bring me anything except brake fluid, cause I don't plan on stopping!
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#4936629
01/27/14 05:24 PM
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caldwelldeerhunter
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HMMM now looking at it I agree that its a bullet hole
If I put my wife in a high fence will her rack get bigger?
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#4936695
01/27/14 05:58 PM
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Even up close it looks like a bullet hole, and it even matches the exit hole. Looks like there is even a little powder residue around it.
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01/27/14 06:03 PM
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BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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The old flash light test will set you buddy free or convict him! !!!
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01/27/14 06:14 PM
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RKHarm24
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A co-worker had a Wthby 30-378 with a break. Hung it out the window of his brother in laws Toy L/C. Shredded the passenger mirror.
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01/27/14 06:17 PM
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Ill give it to you, it does look like a bullet hole, but if you look at it in the 3D world, you can tell that it wasn't.
Also, if it had gotten the full muzzle blast from the front of the gun, I dont think much of the mirror would still be there.
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#4936736
01/27/14 06:19 PM
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Navasot
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Worth getting 5 pigs for sure
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#4936755
01/27/14 06:25 PM
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Hate to admit to it. Last year while sighting in the boys 243 using the corner of our explorer for a rest. I took out the entire back glass. The concussion of the shot made the brackets twist beyond recognition. I had an overwhelming feeling of holy**** and you dumb arse all at one time.
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#4936856
01/27/14 07:05 PM
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Ill give it to you, it does look like a bullet hole, but if you look at it in the 3D world, you can tell that it wasn't.
Also, if it had gotten the full muzzle blast from the front of the gun, I dont think much of the mirror would still be there. Take a close up for us.
If you shoot a young deer because a neighbor will shoot it, you are that neighbor.
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#4936991
01/27/14 07:56 PM
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Erathkid
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I want to know how your gonna explain that one to your insurance agent! new mirrors run about 30 bucks. Where are you buying mirrors for $30 ? Harbor freight? Geez, friggin set of spark plugs cost $50 bucks these days.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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#4937026
01/27/14 08:12 PM
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almost looks like two holes. what gun/cal was he using?
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#4937034
01/27/14 08:17 PM
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Have an acquaintance that had to buy a left handed semi-auto rifle to shoot out of the driver side of his truck. He kept complaining about right handed rifles ejecting brass and cracking his windshield. LOL
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01/27/14 08:27 PM
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#4937097
01/27/14 08:41 PM
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You should shoot the other one so they match
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