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450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:19 pm
by bushmeister
I bought a hunting blind with shoot through windows. The picture on the box shows mesh windows with perfect circular bullet holes in the window that can be replaced... well let me tell you, they don't hold up as well when subjected to the muzzle blast of the 450. I made a fine shot on a doe at 150 yds, and she crumpled up on the spot...but was pretty surprised to see what was left of my "shoot thru window"

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:32 am
by commander faschisto
Keep that in mind when firing over your Chrony! ;)

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:12 am
by Texas Sheepdawg
...OR, shooting off the hood or roof of your truck!

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:44 am
by wildcatter
commander faschisto wrote:Keep that in mind when firing over your Chrony! ;)


Texas Sheepdawg wrote:...OR, shooting off the hood or roof of your truck!


Got that right!

Marky, ya-all better write that one up in the Contest, just think about this...A 14 Point Screen!!!..

..t

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:00 pm
by BayouBob
Texas Sheepdawg wrote:...OR, shooting off the hood or roof of your truck!


Yup. And you know how a scope focuses around an up close object to the point it is transparent? The antenna on your truck fits that bill when you shoot off the hood!

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:04 pm
by Texas Sheepdawg
Back in the late 1970s, I saw a guy crease his hood with a .308. He shot and there was suddenly a bunch of white flakes floating down out of the sky. :o It was the white paint he blew off his hood. :lol:

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:16 pm
by commander faschisto
Late 70's also: My uncle cratered his pickup windshield trying to sight in a 12ga slug gun off the hood. Made for an exciting drive back home over backwoods country roads! :shock:

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:42 pm
by BillytheKid
You shot the window out?

There goes the neighborhood!

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:48 pm
by commander faschisto
I wished he HAD shot it completely out...as it was we had to drive home, in the dark most of the way, looking through a giant glass spider web of cracks. I actually had to hang my head out the open passenger's window to help keep him on the road where there weren't any centerline stripes, or when there were oncoming headlights, which would turn the whole windshield into a glowing kaleidoscope. :roll:

Re: 450 vs. shoot through windows

PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:12 am
by rugersr556
How was your hearing after that shot. must have been awful loud inside that tent. ouch.