Strange question but does your wife or anyone else in your house handle firearms. An accidental discharge that someone hasn’t owned up to sounds possible to me but I’m just a suspicious old fart.
Lol! I lanced my parents old pool with an Easton 2117 back in the 90’s. Damn if that water didn’t shoot out faster than I thought it would
Suspicious is good.
Never trust a fart
Says the guy with a hole in the garage door that “someone” shot. Mine was in the floor of base housing and it made me more than fart myself.
Nope. But the irony is that just the night before sitting on the back patio saying how we wouldn't have bought an above ground pool but it came with the house and has been relatively low cost. A little chlorine and algae but nothing big until the next morning! Wife was my first suspect since she has always wanted an inground pool instead.
Update: I WAY over estimated the distance from the noxious neighbors to our fence. It's only 250 yards not 1000(figured out why I shot WAY over the back of that deer)!
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...and don't forget when the rural fire department (bless their souls) comes to your house to use your above-ground swimming pool as a tank to fight a local grass fire. Walls on those flimsy above ground pools is like Reynolds aluminum foil; as they say "folds like a cheap suit".
That diameter is probably even larger than the bullet! It was streaming out like that little David statue on Lasix after having a case of beer. Guess 20,000 gallons creates a pretty good pressure.
I don’t have any hard data, but I’d say 250 yards is a possible “lob” for a 9mm.
In the country, a lot of people that pop off ammo indiscriminately don’t take gravity into consideration. What goes up must come down.
In the country, a lot of people that pop off ammo indiscriminately don’t take gravity into consideration. What goes up must come down.
Not a ballistics expert, but I know walls in above ground pools are not very thick, and that hollow point hasn't expanded at all. SInce water is about the best thing to mushroom hollow points, it seems to be that it didn't have much energy when it struck. Granted, not that I would want to catch one, but it seems like if it was close enough to be deliberate, it would have deformed more. As I said, just speculating.
Damn, my guesses aren't so good. The first one is an honest mistake men make all of the time.
1) The pool bullet entry was only 4" off the ground not 8" as I first stated.
2) The fence bullet entry was 43" off the ground. Slightly lower elevation than the pool but not by much.
3) The fence bullet entry to the pool bullet entry is 58'.
1) The pool bullet entry was only 4" off the ground not 8" as I first stated.
2) The fence bullet entry was 43" off the ground. Slightly lower elevation than the pool but not by much.
3) The fence bullet entry to the pool bullet entry is 58'.
