Okay, this has gotten my wife shaken up just a bit so thought to share and get anyone else's opinion regarding the bullet.
Last Tuesday(3/21), was when we had a hard rain. Got up 06:30 to let dog out. Noticed a good amount of water standing on the side of the house in the back yard but figured from the storm. Wife comes into my office around 8 and asked if I knew the pool had a leak. Hmmm? No. All kinda thoughts going through my head. Get shoes on and go look. ALL BE DAMN! There's a hole in the side of my above ground pool about 8" up from the ground. First thought was a bullet but the hole wasn't clean. Didn't notice anything down low on our fence either. Got a rag and shoved in the hole to stop the water gusher.
Fast forward 1 week. Finally found someone who said they could patch it but we'd need to take off the cover first. So, we pumped off the water on the cover yesterday and finished this morning. Hadn't heard from the repair guy but pulled the cover back enough for him to access. Lo and behold on the bottom of the pool is an intact bullet. Went ahead and called the Tuttle PD to file a police report. Officer took pics then told me to retrieve bullet out of the pool. Took more pictures of the bullet. We walked over to the fence and found a pretty clean hole about 3' or a little higher off the ground by the gate on our fence. So, the trajectory went from 3-3 1/2' down to about 8-10" off the ground when hit the pool. It didn't appear to pierce the bottom of the pool liner.
I weighed the bullet on our Biggest Loser scale and it's 8 grams or I believe that's equivalent to a 124 gr or 6 Cheez-Its
. How far could a bullet like this travel and go through our wooden slat fence and through the outside of our pool and the inside liner and stay intact? Last picture is of our property line. Ours is on the left and neighbor on the right. Halfway down that fence in front of my pickup is what got shot.
Last Tuesday(3/21), was when we had a hard rain. Got up 06:30 to let dog out. Noticed a good amount of water standing on the side of the house in the back yard but figured from the storm. Wife comes into my office around 8 and asked if I knew the pool had a leak. Hmmm? No. All kinda thoughts going through my head. Get shoes on and go look. ALL BE DAMN! There's a hole in the side of my above ground pool about 8" up from the ground. First thought was a bullet but the hole wasn't clean. Didn't notice anything down low on our fence either. Got a rag and shoved in the hole to stop the water gusher.
Fast forward 1 week. Finally found someone who said they could patch it but we'd need to take off the cover first. So, we pumped off the water on the cover yesterday and finished this morning. Hadn't heard from the repair guy but pulled the cover back enough for him to access. Lo and behold on the bottom of the pool is an intact bullet. Went ahead and called the Tuttle PD to file a police report. Officer took pics then told me to retrieve bullet out of the pool. Took more pictures of the bullet. We walked over to the fence and found a pretty clean hole about 3' or a little higher off the ground by the gate on our fence. So, the trajectory went from 3-3 1/2' down to about 8-10" off the ground when hit the pool. It didn't appear to pierce the bottom of the pool liner.
I weighed the bullet on our Biggest Loser scale and it's 8 grams or I believe that's equivalent to a 124 gr or 6 Cheez-Its