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All because of one bullet

ICE said:
He may have renters insurance but good luck collecting. Considering that his negligence destroyed a building, I'm pretty sure he will be hearing from an insurance company.
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Likely his renters insurance will be paying the owner or the owner's insurance company for the building as well under the liability part that pays for your negligent harms to others.

The whole reason you have insurance is to protect you from your mistakes and those of your kids.
 
always treat every gun as if it were loaded, kkep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, how about not discharging it in the house! wow
 
conarb said:
How is that possible? A lead bullet would deform hitting black iron pipe, tell your FD guys to take another look.
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Note the .223 and .270 win penetrated a 1/4" steel plate.

http://www.huts.com/Huts'sBallisticTest.htm

http://emptormaven.com/2007/06/steel-penetration-of-223-bullets/

I don't know the caliber of the rifle but it was the first day of deer and elk season and my guess would be a .270 or 30-06 since they are the most popular around here for the distance most hunters shoot
 
Wouldn't be hard to test, tell the FD guys to take a length of the pipe and shoot several times at the pipe with the same rifle, I suspect that there is a big difference between shooting a bullet at a steel plate and a 1" round pipe.
 
CA, I regularly have folks out at my place shooting, have seen 3/8 plate steel with a clean, practically drilled hole from a high-powered rifle. Trust me, black pipe would be no problem.
 
fatboy said:
CA, I regularly have folks out at my place shooting, have seen 3/8 plate steel with a clean, practically drilled hole from a high-powered rifle. Trust me, black pipe would be no problem.
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I bought a pellet gun and set up some tin cans. I was shooting at them from 35' and couldn't hit them at all. I thought the sights were screwed up until I noticed the holes. The pellets were going through the cans without disturbing the cans. I set an in-line row and shot it. The pellet stopped in the fourth can. With the .308 I can't find the cans.
 
conarb said:
Wouldn't be hard to test, tell the FD guys to take a length of the pipe and shoot several times at the pipe with the same rifle, I suspect that there is a big difference between shooting a bullet at a steel plate and a 1" round pipe.
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Cast iron being brittle, I would tend to agree.
 
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