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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
[Re: Erathkid]
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01/27/14 09:13 PM
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I want to know how your gonna explain that one to your insurance agent! new mirrors run about 30 bucks. Where are you buying mirrors for $30 ? Harbor freight? Geez, friggin set of spark plugs cost $50 bucks these days. ebay dealer wants 150.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/27/14 09:25 PM
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rifleman
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Ill give it to you, it does look like a bullet hole, but if you look at it in the 3D world, you can tell that it wasn't.
Also, if it had gotten the full muzzle blast from the front of the gun, I dont think much of the mirror would still be there. It would still be there bc of how the MB directs the gasses. It'll burn and shatter, but it's not going to cut a trench like that.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/27/14 10:52 PM
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You're gonna be good at what you practice, make sure you are practicing the right thing...
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
[Re: 12buckaroo]
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01/27/14 11:13 PM
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This is why most of us hunt out of trucks........ mirrors are a lot cheaper than back windows Hate to admit to it. Last year while sighting in the boys 243 using the corner of our explorer for a rest. I took out the entire back glass. The concussion of the shot made the brackets twist beyond recognition. I had an overwhelming feeling of holy**** and you dumb arse all at one time.
I'd ask him if he's pregnant. He missed a s__tload of periods. I'll take "things that look like a uterus" for $200 Alex.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 12:40 AM
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trjscout
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if his muzzle brake did that he might want to get that looked at !!!
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 04:00 AM
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Txkiller
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That's some serious damage from a brake!
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
[Re: BOBO the Clown]
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01/28/14 04:06 AM
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Sure looks like a bullet hole, think your buddy owes you a new mirror Do the flashlight test tonight!
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 04:14 AM
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hermano W
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The barrel is lower than the sighting devise. That means you can be sighted in just right on the piggy, and hit the mirror...
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 04:36 AM
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that's been happening to jeep mirrors and windshields before brakes were thought of!!!
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 11:04 AM
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 11:22 AM
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"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 12:08 PM
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Teach them second... to love their family.
Third, teach them to hunt & fish... and by the time they reach
their teens, no dope peddler under the sun...will ever have a
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 12:40 PM
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maybe looking thru a scope and didnt check his muzzle clearance.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 01:41 PM
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I agree that it's a bullet hole. I've laid my brakes 270 across the hood and had burn marks in the paint. It made a V shaped burn, nothing was burnt directly below the muzzle. Seems to me if it was just from the blast then the large groove on the opposite side of the glass would have continued all the way through. It looks as if he shot the mirror in the top, evidence of the small hole, and it exited the front of the mirror, evidence of the large channel it made.
Prove us wrong! Test it on the other mirror. Same gun. This time you shoot it and video it. First shot with muzzle where you claim it was. Second shot with muzzle pointed at mirror. I'm sure we can get a THF fund going to buy you 2 new mirrors if you prove us wrong, if not then you're out $60
Last edited by BigPig; 01/28/14 01:42 PM.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 01:45 PM
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Blow it up and you can see the bullet hole.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
[Re: trjscout]
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01/28/14 02:20 PM
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that's been happening to jeep mirrors and windshields before brakes were thought of!!! +jeep mirrors come right off. You only need one to be legal right? shoot the, both off. Lucky your buddy didn't get some plastic or glass in his face.
Never used photoshop and never will. Photoshop is for liberals.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 09:17 PM
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Gotta be more careful than that
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/28/14 10:46 PM
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Seems like everyone I know that owns a muzzle braked gun has scared their truck (or a hunting buddies) at least one time learning this lesson. Don't the gunsmiths installing these things warn folks of the danger?
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
[Re: dkershen]
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01/28/14 11:03 PM
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Seems like everyone I know that owns a muzzle braked gun has scared their truck (or a hunting buddies) at least one time learning this lesson. Don't the gunsmiths installing these things warn folks of the danger?
+1. Furthermore, I've never met a guide or PH that had anything good to say about them. They're ugly, they're loud, and they kick up more dust than a Class 5 tornado. But guys keep hanging them on their barrels anyway. If you want your .338 to kick like a .30-06, just hunt with a .30-06!
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple.....and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/29/14 01:59 AM
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No need to provide a flashlight test. If you did someone would still dispute the results. and/or your story
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/29/14 04:19 AM
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Time to get Matlock in here to draw a conclusion. Myself, I say a bullet. Contacts your local junkyard pick and pull and get you a replacement mirror.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/29/14 04:30 PM
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muzzle breaks.... Great for reducing recoil so you can extinguish an entire sounder of hogs.... Bad for truck mirrors. No, it was not shot, the muzzle was just over the mirror, and when my buddy shot, the blast blew a hole in the back of it (non glass side) which also broke the glass. Did kill five pigs though... Having been through a school or two on gunshots and ballistics I can tell you that there is no way on God's green Earth that this damage was caused solely by muzzle blast. In the first pic you can see that plastic is blown upward and outward. This means that something passed through and exited the plastic from within. The muzzle blast would have been external only. This mirror was most definitely shot. This is not uncommon, even among military and law enforcement when shooting scoped or elevated sights. The shooter has clear view of the target through the sights, but fails to check for muzzle clearance.
Mike Buda, Tx Hunt near Freer
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/29/14 09:33 PM
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He shot the mirror for sure. He didn't have enough muzzle clearance. I've shot a bunch of pigs off a mirror with my 7mm mag with a muzzle break and never had anything close to this happening. Even shot off a hood a few times with no issues. Your buddy shot your truck. Plain and simple.
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Re: muzzle brakes and truck mirrors
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01/31/14 10:01 PM
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My truck was being worked on a couple of months ago, so I was driving a rented SUV. I drove out to the lease and parked at the edge of a field to wait on the pigs. I rolled down the window and used it as a rest for the rifle. My night vision scope sits high enough on the rifle that I did not see the mirror in the scope picture. The bullet flew just left of the driver's side mirror, but the blast completely shattered the glass in the mirror. I was shooting my DPMS .308. Had to write a check to Enterprise for $225.00. I am still kicking myself for that stupid oversight.
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