Airguns and home repair.....

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Well, if everybody is confessing. I have bullet trap in my shop that will stop a full house .44 mangum at 20 feet. Measures about 15ā€ x 15ā€. Light trigger on .22 rimfire Ruger pistol, shot to side of trap through shop wall. Bullet stopped by Big bar-b-que pit outside. I patched both sides of wall before anyboy saw the ā€œsmall caulked nailā€ holes. Scared hell out of me. That has never happened again. Better not happen again. Of course wife did see the holeĀ in a closet door from a .22 CB CAP that went throughĀ two thick catalogs from a single shot pistol. That was 60 years ago and she stll reminds me about that.Ā 

Be careful, it can happen.
 
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Repair update: pulled the tape off this morning, looks OK to me. She'll never notice. "that's always been that way honey"

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While we are all confessing our past "incidents", here is my worst one. Back in 2004, Easter Sunday in fact, my wife informed me of a squirrel eating new growth in one of her planter buckets. WHAT!!!! I grab my RWS 45 .177 with open sights to deal with the varmint. I pull a sneak on him from around the garage. Sure enough he is nibbling on sprouting flowers. The shot was maybe 40 feet with the ceder fence behind him. I knelt down forĀ a head shot, but when squeezing the trigger he ducked down for another bite of green. It was a clean miss and he ran off. I had an uneasy feeling of the whereabouts of the RWS pellet impact. I can see no hole in the fence where it should have been. BAD NEWS......it went between the fence board gap and hit my neighbors window. ( see digital picture of a film picture I took)

It was 8:30 am when I knocked on their front door. Not home, they went to Easter Sunday mass. I inform my wife of my misfortune about the missed squirrel. She shakes her head but thinks this is humorous. About 11 am they are home when I knock on the door. I am good friends with these neighbors and explain what happened. I tell them I will get the window replaced first thing next day. We all three go to look at the window. There is the little pellet resting at the bottom between theĀ panes. They see some humor, too, and are cool about the incident. They have squirrel problems also. It cost me $115.00 to get that 14" x 45" window replaced. Just two inches left it would have impacted the bricks.

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LMAO...you missed the glass. Last year I was cleaning my Hatzan by shooting cleaning pellets at a towel on the floor. They recommend doing it three times, I had done it twice and loaded the rifle with the third pellet when I got a phone call. I was on the phone for a bit and forgot all about the rifle. I had put my rifle on the sled which was on top of the kitchen table. When I finally went back to the gun I decided to pack it up and for whatever reason I pulled the trigger and of course it went off. And I see the patio door shades move. Then It all came back to me in a flash, the third pellet. I slowly moved to the door and pull the shades aside... a perfect hole dead center,shattered into a million pieces. $1700.00 later I learned my lesson. Donā€™t think for a minute she wonā€™t notice.. they donā€™t miss anything..šŸ˜€


 
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OK my first bb gun i was about 10 a friend gave me a bb gun he had 2 pellet guns his dad bought him so anyway my older brother was shooting at a bird on a wire in the back yard missing several times before he noticed the neighbor scrambling around the back of his house and realized he was putting out his window. After the cops came over my father took my bb gun and i never saw it again. probably a good thing as i lived in a city and nothing good was going to happen with me and that gun. That explains my fascination and addiction to air guns today. LOL


 
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Well, I think I've told this story here before but worth repeating. In an effort to be stealthy when lining up a shot on a squirrel in the back yard, I put my eye to the scope, raising my gun while coming around the corner of our sunroom and lined up my crosshairs on the squirrel. Little did I know that the end of my barrel was about two inches from the corner of a downspout. Pulled the trigger and holy crap, what just happened!!?? Shot right through the corner of the downspout. I never realized that very close objects to the scope that can block up to half of the scope simply cannot be seen through the lenses. I did end up nailing that squirrel on a subsequent shot. Then I did a test with blocking the scope and sure enough, the theory was proven.

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Wow.....1700 bucks to replace that glass door from a felt cleaning pellet. Can you say "Are you in good hands?" like in the Allstate commercial.

Man, we have a wide variety of airgun caused home and auto damage and even a personal injury report. Keep it coming guys. It feels good to get this stuff off your chest and out in the open.
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They were the old aluminum frame doors and I could not buy just the one, had to replace the whole thing with a new double pane vinyl frame doors.
 
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we used to have birds that would toss their food out of their cages and we ended up with a lot of mice in the trailer. so one night I got the bright idea to shoot them with my crosman 760 with 5 pumps using bbs as our cat was not wirth a darn as a mouser ,but her toy pom was a great mouser once they took some of his food as he watched lol. well we were doing good with 5 down and I saw one on the stove, I ended up takeing out the clock on the stove and still 15 years later i'm not allowed to shoot in the house !Ā 
 
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My story doesnā€™t exactly include any home repair but it did require some home remedy field triage.

My friendā€™s uncle had property that was half a section or so and he raised some animals and did a little farming and such so he had a lot of pest birds around. One day we were out on his uncleā€™s property shooting starlings and sparrows with our air guns. At that time, I was using a Crosman 1377 pistol. I found myself a spot in the weeds up next to an empty stock pen. About 10 yards away the starlings would land on the fence for me to pick off. I was crouched down next to the stock pen gate behind the tall weeds that had grown up along fence and the starlings couldnā€™t see me all that well. I would hold onto the vertical side bar of the stock gate with my left hand with my index finger stretched out and Iā€™d lay the forearm of the 1377 in the crook between my thumb and index finger. Iā€™d support the side of the pump tube and barrel with my outstretched index finger and it made for a kind of cradle. It was actually working quite well, as I wasnā€™t doing too bad until I lined up for what would end up being my last shot of the day. Apparently, I laid the forearm on my hand a little further back to where my index finger was protruding out just in front of the barrel about Ā½ā€ or so and I didnā€™t realize it. I squeezed off what I thought was going to be a great shot and it felt like my finger got smacked by a hammer and the pellet went splat into the dirt only about 10 feet in front of me. WTH? As a I jerked my left hand away and balled it up into a fist. My finger was very numb. I slowly open up my hand and looked down. For a split second I saw a .177 wide channel about a half a pellet deep cut perfectly across the tip of my index finger with the skin all balled up like a wrinkled piece of paper that got stuck in a copy machine at the very tip. I saw this just a split second before the blood gushed out of the wound. The pain didnā€™t hit until maybe a minute later. Throb! Throb! Throb! It pulsed with every heartbeat. @$#&%@%&# that was dumb. Never told anyone that until now. Told my buddy I cut my finger on a barb wire fence.

The scare is difficult to see and has faded some 26 years later but the memory hasnā€™t faded one bite.



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Thanks for that explanation and visual demonstration, outdoorman. I was six feet inside from the door and saw no clue of a door frame hit coming. Glad to know it was not really my fault after all.šŸ˜ Looks like RTV white would be perfect to fix that leaky down spout.

I see both personal injuries came from the Crosman 1300 series pistols. Interesting.....and OUCH!!!




 
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