I found this (.45 cal?) in my doctor's parking lot a couple of years ago. Lots of shooting in the air around here on holidays.
Cleaning gutters - found bullet in roof.
- Thread starter K-22 in 1970
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3 weeks ago just after i moved in to our new home we heard some gun shots that sounded fairly close so i stepped out my back door to see a guy sitting up on a hill behind the houses.He seemed to be trying to gather stuff up and leave.I heard the neighbor that lived in front of me yelling at him so i came around my house in time to see my neighbor coming through my yard with his gun and phone.I asked him what had happend and he told the guy on the hill had just shot through his back door into his kitchen.The police came and arrested the guy.I ended up helping my neighbor hang a new metal door.He still hasn't fixed the cabnet where the bullet lodged.
The guy told police he was shooting at birds and stuff but didn't realize what was in the backdrop.
The guy told police he was shooting at birds and stuff but didn't realize what was in the backdrop.
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K-22 in 1970
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Since there is some interest in this - more details. The slug clipped the edge of the top shingle and did not fully penetrate the shingle it wound up in. The hollow point was packed with asphalt shingle material and there was zero expansion. I'm thinking it was a Federal Hydra-Shok as it looks like there was a (now squashed) lead "center post" in the HP cavity. I dug out my old powder scale and the slug weighs 127 1/2 grains. Faint rifling marks are evident. Just because I was curious I called the local (south Seattle) police precinct to ask if they had any interest in the bullet which had struck my roof. The reply was - Unless you heard gunfire in your neighborhood last night, No. As the damage was slight I repaired using "liquid nail" for now. My thought is that no neighborhood is safe from this - the thickhead that shoots a weapon in the air could be anywhere.
I told my wife that my "take" on this incident is that of Robin Williams in the Movie - The World According To Garp. When he and his wife are looking at a house to buy and an airplane crashs into it... (quote from the IMDB)
T. S. Garp: We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
I told my wife that my "take" on this incident is that of Robin Williams in the Movie - The World According To Garp. When he and his wife are looking at a house to buy and an airplane crashs into it... (quote from the IMDB)
T. S. Garp: We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
model 49 rick
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Found a .45 slug mashed into the shingles of my garage roof about 5 years ago, much like in your initial picture. We have a lot of mexicans here. They are the ones the "don't shoot in the air" messages are directed at on our local TV during some holidays. You can hear the gunshots at night on the 5th of May, the 4th of July, and New Year's.
