Did an air gun do this to my double glazed window? Note: no pellets or bullets found inside or out. No damage to the inner glazing unit.
Did an air gun do this to my window?
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Did an air gun do this to my double glazed window? Note: no pellets or bullets found inside or out. No damage to the inner glazing unit.
Small round hole is the impact point and the big blown out hole is the exit. Seeing that the inside frame is white, outside must be brown, looks like you have an upset kid in the hood that doesnt like you. Bullet holes for sure. And seeing as you have 2 shots in your windows, its no accident..........BC
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Yeah BB gun or blow gun shooting something like BBs, very low energy steel projectile. You could do that with a sling shot shooting something like BBs as well. Concoidal fracture pattern (a hole shaped like a flat cone) is very common in glass when shot with a BB gun or similar light projectile.
The cone will form on the side AWAY from the strike. So you can know which direction the shot came from with certainty.
Three shots means deliberate or someone just happened to be shooting three times at the same object from far away (and clearly missed it).
I would not think that was done with pellet gun unless it was from very far away. BBs will make that pattern and bounce off, pellets will usually pass into the room, so look around for pellets on the other side of the room. BBs only carry about a foot pound of energy from a typical "Daisy" type gun.
HTH
The cone will form on the side AWAY from the strike. So you can know which direction the shot came from with certainty.
Three shots means deliberate or someone just happened to be shooting three times at the same object from far away (and clearly missed it).
I would not think that was done with pellet gun unless it was from very far away. BBs will make that pattern and bounce off, pellets will usually pass into the room, so look around for pellets on the other side of the room. BBs only carry about a foot pound of energy from a typical "Daisy" type gun.
HTH
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If it was a vandal that sucks. People purposely destroying property is concerning.
It could be a lot of things. What makes the OP think it was an airgun. ?
Yeah it could be a bb Tbt…
It could be a lot of things. What makes the OP think it was an airgun. ?
Yeah it could be a bb Tbt…
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It looks the same as the hole made in my kitchen window when the .22 pellet recochet off my just installed LDC. 
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Since there is a variety of damage patterns my best guess is it was not an airgun / bb gun but rather different shaped rocks either thrown, shot with a slingshot or launched by a mower.
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You got a riding lawn mower? I’ve broken a 5’ x 5’ bay window at our place with a piece of rock that shot out the discharge chute
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As a younger kid some 40 years ago, we had an abandoned steel mill office building nearby. We used to go there and shoot any pigeons that we found, and being the kids that we were, we did shoot at some of the Windows with our Crossman 2100 and 760 pneumatic pump airguns.
The damage looked exactly like that.
The damage looked exactly like that.
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Same thing happened at my son's house, looked for targets that lined up with windows but nothing did, turned out the neighbor had a friend over and he just thought it was fun.
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Gravel thrown by a lawn mower?Oof!concentric circles in there...either bb or wadcutters in .177...
I'd lean towards the wadcutters being the culprit.
Most likely scenario; a person(probably a kid) shot once and then was thinking oh it didn't break BREAK; next shot actually broke and then they fled.
Are we taking bets like the pcp plunges?
I'm sorry, about your situation nonetheless
OFG
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Didn't catch that yesterday... Thanks...
Not worth the time to reply to a possible troll...
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If it were a pellet gun they would be flattened sitting close to the bottom of the house, and the local Bobby didn't find them. The steel bb will be close by as well, found by one of those magnet fishermen enthusiast.
FYI, if you ask this same type of speculative question on either a slingshot enthusiast website forum or a lawn mowing enthusiast website forum you are going to get the same speculative "could be" answers. Heck, it could even be asked on a golf enthusiast website and get a few "could be" answers. Moreover, a shot gun with birdshot coming through trees from way past the neighbors could leave a similar pattern.
My vote is that it the holes are from a rougue woodpecker testing the waters.
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In Animal House, Pinto tries to get his girl's attention..by throwing pebbles at her window..breaking it.
Did the people who lived in the house before you have a teen daughter?
Did the people who lived in the house before you have a teen daughter?
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