Thr.....lie Detector Test.....poll

[Topgun]

You're out in the woods where you usually do your shooting. Suddenly..you come upon a derelict VEHICLE. It has no engine, is an old model, the tires are flat, all the dashboard stuff has been stolen, it's sitting on its rims, the glass is all shot out, and there are bullet holes all over it.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

 

[nordaim]

I have to admit, yes I would shoot it.

I have an abandoned car out behind the barn where I live that I want to put a few rounds of 5.7x28mm SS192 rds through. Test the penetration through auto glass (windshield and side) as well as through body panels. Hmm... I am off Tuesday....

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

This is a trick question. I usually do my shooting at the range.

- pdmoderator

 

[Sheslinger]

As long as I am in an unpopulated area or gully or something with a solid backstop hell yeah. I've shot a car or two here and there, but in a quarry with walls on three sides.

Always be safe.

Actually the most fun I ever had was shooting a remote control tank with .22s when we were around 19. Once again good backstop, no houses close by etc.

That little tank took an amazing amount of .22 to put down. It was like little 120mm shells striking an Abrams.

Chris

 

[cslinger]

Yeah I did it again my feminine side is strong.

Chris

 

[Cyanide_357]

topgun, this target wouldn't be in WV would it? lol.. I highly doubt it... On one of my cousin's property in the back woods, there is a few old vehicles, and washers and crap. I've shot a few into a old vw bug. I also tested out my ss109 against a old steel I-beam. I was amazed that it actually pierced 1/2 inch steel.

Cyanide

 

[BryanP]

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

What?

 

[Sindawe]

WHAT DO YOU DO?

Look for interesting effects of light and shadow on the carcass? Root about under the thing to see what kind of interesting critters can be flushed out for examination? Observe the area to see what the impact the derelict automobile has had on the environment, say vs. a rock of similar size.?

Shoot it? No. There is not sport in shooting the inanimate dead. Besides, in all likelyhood I've got a bag of "evil cans that need dispatching" with me.

 

[Topgun]

This is a trick question. I usually do my shooting at the range.

What? There's no parkin lot at yer range?

KIDDING.....KIDDING......hmmmmm......

 

[LaEscopeta]

If it is my woods, and I know I have safety down range, I shoot the car. Someone else's woods and I have the owner's permission for general (safe) shooting, I shoot the car. I don't go on public land during hunting season, so I don't shoot anything if the car is on public land.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Nothing wrong with shooting a shot-up car, but I can find more worthy targets.

 

[Rico567]

First, the poll is a forced choice: King Id, is he a rat or a fink? What? Don't I get another choice? Maybe he is none of the above. No, I would not shoot at the abandoned vehicle; yes, I shoot at targets other than NRA approved. So- I won't respond to this poll.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Since I have never shot at a car, or had a derelict car show up as an "approved" target of opportunity, I don't know what I'd do. Guess I'd have to be faced with the actual choice.

 

[jefnvk]

In my case, it is what I have done, not what I would do

 

[Zach S]

Shoot it? Nope. Not mine, dont know who it belongs too. The way my luck runs, someone got it for one specific part, for example a floorboard or a 1/4 thats not being reproduced (I've done it) and I'd wind up putting a bullethole in that part. It would have had to been put there recently, since I would be on my way to where I usually shoot.

Also, I'm a car guy. So when I look at this:

I see this instead:

Depending on what kind of car was sitting there, I might not be able to force myself to shoot it, no matter how bad off it was.

 

[Red Tornado]

Sure, if I'm plinking in the woods and it appears to be a much used target. It's fair game.
RT

 

[carebear]

Nelson:

Shows what you know. Hey, check this out! (he shoots at an old car) That's my Dad's shooting car. Just three more payments and it's ours.

 

[jdkelly]

Okay, I voted NRA targets only.

Okay, I voted NRA targets only, but if that yellow truck was in the woods I'd waste it!


Respectfully,

jkelly

 

[Phil Ca]

Just suppose some perp placed the vehicle there inhopes that some one would shoot it full of holes to cover his crime, whatever it is? Then a few days later a deputy appears at your door and wants to talk about a vehicle in the woods all full of holes, what then? just playing devil's advocate here is all.

Personally I have always wanted to find a car that I could use various calibers on as test media. When I was about 12 or 13 a neighbor and i would carry his Stevens single shot bolt action up and over the hill to shoot. There was an old Model-T that was there for years and had aquired a nice patina of rust.

We lifted up the hood and used the engineblock as our target. We took the driver's door and used it as our shooting stand and safety shield. One of us would hold the door upright and take turns holding the rifle through the window. We would take aim and duck our heads and fire at the engine block. The .22LR bullets would richochet off the block and come back and hit the door. They never penetrated the door but it was great "sport" doing that little trick. Of course we never told our mothers of our venture. I believe that I must have been in my 40's or 50's before 'fessed up.

 

[Kamicosmos]

I don't wander around the woods shooting at whatever, so I'd pass on the car, simply because I wouldn't be there myself!

Now, if it was my woods I was wandering around in, and found a car...

...I'd be pretty damn ticked off!

 

[Soap]

I believe in property rights even if said property appears as trash to myself. As was said before, someone might have bought it for a specific part such as the fender for a restoration project. How would you feel if you were in that situation and there were a bunch of holes in your property? But then again, if it is parked on your property, get your AR and have fun!

Or how would you feel if someone axed a tree in your yard that was dead?

 

[trickyasafox]

i shot at one of my best buddy's house for about three years from 11-14, he actually had a shooting car in back, and we lit it up with about a brick of 22lr each every week, and yes it was probably the most fun target i've ever had in my entire life! so yes if it was on MY land i dont care who bought it for what, its on my property and ill do with it what i please. dont like it? dont stash your stuff on other people's land. . . . .

 

[thorn726]

i like Zach's response, if there is any hope at all for the car, leave it be.
but where i grew up in LI there were all these fireroads in the woods- we didnt think of it then, but most of the cars were propabably ditched stolen. some were just plain abandoned.
many people shot them up, they were pretty destroyed by the time we got to them.
we were very young, we used hammers , rocks, whatever.

the big problem is these days the vehicle is most likely stolen or crime related, so i would have to think i would not start shtooing at it, plus here in the forest where you can shoot, there are rules, i wouldnt take the chance of a ranger rolling up on me.
besides a car is so big, too easy. i get my "destruction" fun at work hauling junk.

 

[yesterdaysyouth]

are you kiddin me?? we've shot the truck we rode in to the range before...

welcome to ky, the teeth are few and far between...

 

[Missourigunner]

Lie Detector Poll

The old "Junker" that you unload on, could be someone elses property. I wouldn't want to explain why I shot it full of holes, even though other people did.