Utility of bullet holes

[Malamute]

I forgot, I used a 22 to transfer a hole through an insulated floor to run a fresh air intake into the cabin. Used a hole saw from both sides to complete the job.

Used a shotgun to take off broken branches out at the shooting spot also.

 

[Reloadron]

I was watching a show the other night, Alaska the Last Frontier, where they were constructing a smokehouse. After it was built they decided it needed more "ventilation" and decided to put some holes in it using firearms, namely a shotgun. This started me thinking if anyone else has used firearms for a utility purpose (other than hunting, plinking and anything else we use firearms for)

Side bar question. I am considering using a firearm to put some holes in a new barrel I picked up for burning trash. Anyone know if .22LR will do the job, I don't want to attract too much neighbor attention. I am rural enough to do it in my backyard just not that rural.

Wow, this is sort of freaky. I just got back last Sunday from visiting old friends in North Carolina. I generally visit them every year around this time. The one guy likes to shoot so I always drag a few guns along on the trip. This year was a Ruger MK II .22 pistol and an AR in 223 with a few others.

Nick needed holes in his new burn barrel so we tried the 22 first. Nope, not going to happen, just dents at about 50 feet. The AR did just fine on the barrel. The problem was the exit holes looked ugly. However, the 223 using green tip made the needed holes. The only reason I used the M855 was because the stuff was cheap compared to other ammo I brought along. So four of us amused ourselves air conditioning Nick's burn barrel for awhile.

Absolutely much more fun than screwing around with an electric drill.

Ron

 

[sawdeanz]

I haven't personally but didn't they sometimes use a modified shotshell to start prop engines on a plane? Or was that just something from a movie.

 

[evan price]

When I junk old cars the scrap yard wants the gas tanks drained. Most cars don't have drain holes anymore. A twelve.gauge deer slug or two fired through the back seat base or trunk floor, depending on where the tank is located, makes nice big drain holes.

Re: shotgun start: some old engines in aircraft and the field marshall diesel tractor use a shotgun shell to start. Google it to see youtube videos.

 

[USAF_Vet]

I haven't personally but didn't they sometimes use a modified shotshell to start prop engines on a plane? Or was that just something from a movie.

Many aircraft required squibs to start their engines. Not even just prop engines. The original engines on the B-52 used squib loads to fire up the engines for a lot of years.

 

[stressed]

I used a 12ga with slugs to actually get a truck unstuck. It was a while ago, but I believe it was high-centered on the middle of the frame. After hours of digging and the sun went down and mosquitoes came out, I lost patience. Fired a dozen slugs into the earth that was caught up on the frame, and reduced it getting the truck to get traction and drag itself off the berm.

 

[230RN]

Not really a bulleted round, but Ramset stud drivers use high-powered blanks to drive the studs.

 

[hartcreek]

I am the person that the power company designated to trim tree limbs back from the high tension and other power lines with a shotgun in our cabin tract for more then twenty years now. I have some 000 and #8 layered loads that will bring tears to your eyes.

 

[Potatohead]

No. But don't be this guy.


http://m.kmbc.com/Man-Installing-Satellite-TV-Shoots-Kills-Wife/12338176

Oh my. Not very smart.

 

[Joe Demko]

This is a splendid tool for making holes in stuff where you want holes. I love mine.

 

[pezo]

I knew someone who seriously contemplated using a 12 gauge to clean out his sewer vent stack. I talked him out of it. Baaad idea FYI

 

[blarby]

I am the person that the power company designated to trim tree limbs back from the high tension and other power lines with a shotgun in our cabin tract for more then twenty years now. I have some 000 and #8 layered loads that will bring tears to your eyes.

PM sent !

 

[test drive]

As for the .22 yes it will penetrate a standard 55 gal drum if your useing LR in a rifle
platform say with a 16 inch bbl. Now, .22 cal. hand guns may work but those short bbls dont produce the same velocity and you may get a ricochet. Also the ribs in those drums are harder to punch through. A larger cal. firearm would work better.

 

[witchhunter]

When I was a kid, a neighbor added a skylight to the roof and ceiling of his kitchen while he was cleaning his 12 gauge!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Rear View Mirrors and .25 Pistols.

I have used a .25 pistol to take out a thin tree that was blocking my semi-controlled slide down an icy rural road (the large sapling would have taken out my rear view mirror if I had continued with it up). I had started up what appeared to be a roadbed of bedrock. Under a layer of clear ice it was bed rock.

My late stepdad made holes in the fender of a truck for bolting on a rear view mirror using a .25 pistol (inside the wheel well shooting out).