Why sight-offset is a *thing*

[pushpullpete]

Well that was unfortunate. Now your truck has a little more 'character'. Hopefully, it's one of those "once in a lifetime things".

[parabelum]

Well...is everyone ok?

That's a doozy.

[ELB]

Whoopsie.

I have seen several training barricades that suffered from that, even with pistols.

He needs to clean his battery terminals. :)

[ScubaSigGuy]

I will admit to doing this once, about 25 years ago, while in the military. Fortunately, we were shooting across the bed of the truck and I just caught the top surface of the bed rail. We even commented on the loud report, as I was shooting some "hot" Belgium Match .22 ammo", out of a scoped 10/22. By the fourth shot we figured out the issue. Lesson learned.

[The Annoyed Man]

Whoopsie.

I have seen several training barricades that suffered from that, even with pistols.

He needs to clean his battery terminals. :)

He needs to replace his battery:

[Pawpaw]

A while back I read a story about a police sniper that was called in for a hostage situation. As I recall, he was off duty when he was called, so he showed up with his rifle and not much else.

He set up across the street, behind a concrete wall. The perp was outside, using a woman as a shield. The sniper used a tree between him and the wall as a brace. He took two shots, with no effect. He couldn't even tell where his rounds went. Then he realized, due to sight offset, he was looking over the wall, but shooting into it. He braced a bit higher on the tree and solved the hostage situation with his 3rd shot.

[puma guy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAIjzQEFUnw

Beat me to it!

[JustSomeOldGuy]

Whoopsie.

I have seen several training barricades that suffered from that, even with pistols.

He needs to clean his battery terminals. :)

He needs to replace his battery:

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If that's the only damage to the battery, the hole can probably be epoxied up. On the other hand, if the battery is toward the end of it's useful life, he's got a good excuse for replacing it.

[Lynyrd]

My front porch is about 60 feet long and 8 feet wide. It is an elevated porch with a rail all the way around except for where the steps lead up on the porch. A few years back I saw a hog out the window and stepped on on the porch to shoot it. He was below the rail in my line of site, so I slow and quiet stepped in his direction until the crosshairs were above the porch rail. As soon as I shot I knew what happened because some debris kicked leaves around in an overhanging tree limb. I was about 20 feet from the rail when I shot, and it left a nice v-shaped grove in the top of the rail.

When new people come over to the house, they usually spot it and my wife gets to embarrass me yet again by telling the story. She never gets tired of saying, "He shot the porch!"

[ELB]

My front porch is about 60 feet long and 8 feet wide. It is an elevated porch with a rail all the way around except for where the steps lead up on the porch. A few years back I saw a hog out the window and stepped on on the porch to shoot it. He was below the rail in my line of site, so I slow and quiet stepped in his direction until the crosshairs were above the porch rail. As soon as I shot I knew what happened because some debris kicked leaves around in an overhanging tree limb. I was about 20 feet from the rail when I shot, and it left a nice v-shaped grove in the top of the rail.

When new people come over to the house, they usually spot it and my wife gets to embarrass me yet again by telling the story. She never gets tired of saying, "He shot the porch!"

But the important question is - did you get the hog?

[oohrah]

Reminds me of when Ned Beatty aimed the howitzer at the German submarine in the movie "1941".

[Lynyrd]

My front porch is about 60 feet long and 8 feet wide. It is an elevated porch with a rail all the way around except for where the steps lead up on the porch. A few years back I saw a hog out the window and stepped on on the porch to shoot it. He was below the rail in my line of site, so I slow and quiet stepped in his direction until the crosshairs were above the porch rail. As soon as I shot I knew what happened because some debris kicked leaves around in an overhanging tree limb. I was about 20 feet from the rail when I shot, and it left a nice v-shaped grove in the top of the rail.

When new people come over to the house, they usually spot it and my wife gets to embarrass me yet again by telling the story. She never gets tired of saying, "He shot the porch!"

But the important question is - did you get the hog?

On the second shot, yes. The first shot, obviously not.

[sjfcontrol]

Video is "private" :-(