OH FU@#%@+&K
Well, I finally did it. Shooting from inside the house, and forgetting to OPEN the WINDOW. I did this yesterday. I did my best to hide it from my girlfreind, (we live together, but it’s her house) by keeping the blinds semi closed, effectively hiding it. Putting a hole in the window in itself is a bad thing, but it also gives away the fact that I’m shooting from inside the house, something I do to get more yardage in, and to hide the big bangs from shooting my un shrouded Talondor .25.
I do not want her to know I do this. How do I explain a hole in the bedroom window when she thinks I only shoot from outside on the patio?
Anyways, to my horror, this morning she decided to open the blinds to let some sun in. I was just ready to blurt out some goofy excuse with a apology, when she just turned around, and got ready for work. This hole was 12″ from her face… and she missed it!!
I just found a glass place 1/2 mile from me that will replace it for 14.95, not bad at all, and will be perfect looking before she gets back from work. 😛 😛 😛
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When was a kid I would spend the summers on my uncles dairy farm.
I was shooting pigeons in the old barn with his pump up BB gun.
After several shots I noticed all of these little sun beams shining through !!!
Everytime I missed the BB punched a hole in the old wood roof.
My uncle was so pissed that I was cut off from the BB gun for weeks. 🙁
But it did teach me to make sure you can hit it before firing !!!!
Of course with the Talon you always have to worry about what behind the target !!!!!
When I first got my Condor I was sighting in in my hallway. Laying prone, shooting into a small duct seal trap. First shot was WAY off, put a hole in one side of my aluminum door, went through the core and put a small bump in the outside.
After that I moved my shooting down into the basement. I have a pretty expensive radio down there, pellet from an IZH 46M missed, bounced off a wooden cabinet and hit it right on the display. Only cosmetic thankfully.
Then there are a few .22 holes in my bedroom window sill, 1 gouge out of the aluminum storm shutter frame and cygnusx might like to explain the time we thought we’d put a .308 hole in a bedroom wall…..
300 bucks.. yikes, you couldn’t even put a hummingbirds head thru that hole lol. Actually, it cost me more than 14.95 as the guy replaced the rubber weather stripping that goes around the window, the old stripping was shot. The only thing that kept it so cheap for me was that it wasn’t a typical window embedded in a wood frame, all puttyed in ect. It was one of those sliding windows in a aluminum frame that you just pop out, and take in to replace the glass. Otherwise, it surely would have cost me way more.
Geepers. Nothing gets by my wife. This tiny BB hole an inch from the top of the bedroom window and usually covered by the blind was spotted in no time. Also, no $14.95 for me. This burst from my Drozd BB machine gun cost ne just shy of $300.
Hell you should see my furnace, after I launched a couple of slugs into it, all bent in and everything, the wife still hasn’t said anything, yet, good deal.
yes they do!
my ex put a .357 slug through the wall and just about shot my truck
Women make similar mistakes too, my MOM put a .177 cal hole in the wall in the garage a while back. Needless to say, no more shooting, even testing happens in the garage. 🙄
This is funny. This post reminds me of Miko Malo and his issues with shootings things that aren’t supposed to be shot. He was working on a regulator for the Talon rifles and he had shot A LOT of pellets into his target, that was backed up to the garage door, and yep, you guessed it…when the pellets had a clear path through the door he shot his car (which was actually outside the garage as he was inside shooting…) 😯 I think it was a Lexus or something nice like that…
Haven’t heard from him in a long time…hope he survived that incident 😉
i can’t believe that you guy’s are so careless with your guns! 😯 🙂
I’ve never had an accident. 🙄
And there isn’t a .177 hole in my shop door! It’s just a piece of duct tape cause it looks good! 😀
The Wife just reminded me. 🙄 Now about that oil heater that bled all over the shop. For some reason it didn’t stand up the that .40 ACP worth a shit!
Junk I tell ya! Pure Junk!!!
Mike
UPDATE: All is good, it’s obvious she never saw the hole, she’ll never notice it’s new glass, hasn’t even noticed the red tape, but man thx for all the reply’s, some of them cracking me up lol. Some of you have way worse stories than me, and many of us own AG’s that are quite powerful… just take the extra precautions when shooting from the inside!
My woman notices everything, an every time I get caught being naughty I always get this dumb grin on my face and give my self away. Unless women are raised shooters they tend to have a problem with anything gun related, talking bout all the “what if’s?”
If she had a slight issue with you shooting in doors an then that happened her issues would be confirmed and the fun would begin 😉
just go on a window cleaning spree so they all look good or make that one look really dirty 😆
You should have stuck a dead birds head through it (and taken a picture of it for us of course…) 😆 😆
You could tell something like this happened while you were shooting outside.
And then tell her “At least I’m still alive, and will be able to spend more time with you. Don’t worry though, I’m OK “.
Hey Saugus, heres what you tell her:
“I figured if you didnt see the fake bullet-hole sticker, you might notice a bit of red tape! I hope that stuff doesnt leave that sticky crap all over the window like the last one did. That stuffs a pain in the butt to clean off”.
Then wait and see LOL.
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since we are telling stories about wifes and guns, mine is, one time i was meeting my wife down at our camp on the river to do some shooting well i told her to bring down my condor, well befor she has learned the diffrence by looking at the pellets and telling the cal. she could not figure out witch pellet was .22 (not in original tins) so i told her to load one to make sure it was right. well she asked what to do now that the gun was loaded, well i said to just shot the gun into a log (we heat with wood) well the gun happened to be turned down and she shot a piece of osage orange (extreamly hard wood) in a knot and the pellet bounced back and hit her in the neck. well i was on the phone with her and all i heard was screaming and crying. she was fine but but i was worried, now she says she has just another intrinsting story to tell