Looks awfully like someone was leaning on the bonnet with a scoped 22 and didn't account for the position of the muzzle.
Definitely a bullet impact.
A 22lr will do that to aluminium at 500M.
Mark
That flat trajectory discounts meteorite and iceball
I thought Puma boneyards were steel ?
I’m thinking when the panel guy strips it he will find a bullet !
S
Looks awfully like someone was leaning on the bonnet with a scoped 22 and didn't account for the position of the muzzle.
Definitely a bullet impact.
A 22lr will do that to aluminium at 500M.
Mark
I'd say most defiantly a bullet hole as well
Shane
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Puma bonnet is most definitely steel
Well it has enough iron in it to be magnetic
Picture for evidence
S
If roos were shot nearby about the same time then isn't that the most logical, although least exciting, explanation?
As a boy on the farm I remember the time a neighbor, who lived about 1.5 kilometres away, complained about holes in his roof. My father said I should stop shooting crows in our corn crop!
I would agree except I would have thought I would have noticed it if I did it myself!
We went shooting the night before but I was driving and spotlighting while my son was shooting out of the passenger side. I had a 223 but didn’t even get a shot off as he was too deadly with his accuracy.
The two guns we have with scopes are a 22 magnum and a 223. Firing either that close I would suspect the bullet would end up in the engine bay.
Anyway, I will certainly share any further knowledge when I get it repaired.
We we do have a roo and rabbit plague at the moment so I will certainly be out doing some more shooting myself in the foreseeable future.
"Occam's razor is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the least speculation is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation."
Most likely explanation could be that is this was self infected, the bore of a rifle is lower that the line of sight through a scope and has resulted in damaged bonnets in the past. This doesn't mean that this did happen but based on some personal observations and mistakes in my youth I know that shooting over the bonnet and also shooting from a moving vehicle can sometimes not work out as intended and you don't always notice at first
One time I was washing my Ranger truck and when I removed the floor mats found what appeared to be a hole blown through the floor of the truck (GMC blazer) in a position that would make sense if the driver had a shot gun rested muzzle down in the far side of the passenger foot well with the butt end ready for quick use. My boss (Head Ranger) seemed a bit suspiciously uninterested in this news... it used to be his truck, any connection?
One thing I definitely know is it couldn’t have come from anyone shooting and leaning on the bonnet. To get the angle you literally have to be pressed up against the aerial and windscreen.
I contorted myself with my Dad to get the angle to see if somehow I had done it while shooting days earlier. I only did it as I started to doubt myself and my sanity! The reality is no one would take a shot like it and it is then too tall for my son to have taken it.
Finally got the bonnet repaired.
No bullet found but panel beater thought it was most likely caused by a large Calibre bullet fired from quite a distance (due to the trajectory). Apparently they have had similar before!
Not a completely definitive answer but best they could come up with.
Luckily they exhonerated me as me as they all contorted themselves and no one could get anywhere near the angle for someone to shoot it from the near the car!
A bullet in the class of a 7.62mm will travel 3-4km. At an extreme range, the shooter wouldn't have known you were there.
Cheers.
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