Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How not to use your truck as a gun rest

My brother did that. But on his bed.

Sadly, I watched a "friend" shoot a hole in the side of his 70 chev. truck bed exact same way.
Watched the setup, stood back and waited. Dumbass did not disappoint.

It happens. He's lucky he didn't get any fragments in his face. Folks forget the line of sight and the bore are generally an inch and half apart, at least, when dealing with scoped centerfires.

I know a guy who did the same thing to a new Chevy with a .22LR. My brother did it on our back deck with a scoped .22LR when we were kids. Bullet hole is still there.

Nice mounth on that idiot, cant say four words without a big F bomb. Wonder if his momma taught him that.

Years ago I had a friend with an auto body shop, he said he really looked forward to antelope season as he would get 4 or 5 jobs repairing the bullet divots in guys' pickup hoods.

Friend used the top of his Scout as a rest to shoot a groundhog. Bullet went down through the roof and out the side window, missing his brothers head by about 6 inches. Both gone now from other accidents, miss them.

One time I was at the range with my kids and my daughter was on the bench shooting the AK47 and had the barrel sand bagged up. She's shooting away and me and my son were both looking down range at the target. A range officer walked up and stopped her. From the recoil, the muzzle had slipped back on the sand bag and she was shooting through the top sand bag. Boy, we all felt really stupid......duhh.

Only thing missing is a Bone Collector decal on the back glass..

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270?

I can see it happening. You'd think someone would have told him what was about to happen

Many years ago one of the gunzine writers admitted to sighting in a Weatherby across the hood of a pickup and removing a fair amount of paint with the muzzle flash and blast. No holes just removed paint.

Jim

I was hunting muzzleloader season in CO last year. Walked along the passengers side of a pickup belonging to one of the kids that was helping out on our hunt. Started laughing so hard I almost fell over. There was a line of exit bullet holes just under the top rail of the box. My buds asked what was so funny, told them that them there are bullet holes and I bet I know how they got there. Sure enough the kid walks up and tells his story. Had to do with a scoped AR and a running 'yote...

It was only an old ford, no big deal.

Opening line takes the cake!! Yep, it got "real" for sure!

Why do I think there was likely a Tannerite target out there somewhere that the idiot was trying to hit?

My brother put several big cracks through his red Roadrunner's windshield back in the 70's by sighting in his 7mm Mag off the hood. That was an expensive sight-in.

A family friend shot the heck out of the top of a big hay bale while resting the gun barrel on the top of hay bale and trying to nail a buck. Amazing amount of chaff generated from that, was funny as heck watching it. Poof! Poof! Poof! Still makes me chuckle..

Friend's wife put the flash hider of her AR right on my new front bag, sand was flyin and she just kept shootin. Taped it up so I could use it and they thought it was hilarious. Didn't offer to buy me a new one or even apologize, have no need for friends like that.

A rancher was showing me around his ranch in his pick up prior to me trapping coyotes for him. He saw me looking at the crook in his radio antenna. He said, "yeah I was lining up on a coyote and creased the antenna with a bullet." It had a distinct kink in it from where the bullet brushed it.

He might have been good.... until he rested it right flat azz down on the top of the truck.

I am guilty of scorching the paint on my 86 Blazer hood with my brand new .50 cal Hawken with the very first shot out of it. To my credit it was my first BP rifle and never gave the muzzle blast a thought.