muzzle brakes and truck mirrors

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...

Never seen it, but heard of people that shattered the windshield by laying across the hood. I have felt the burst from my 300UM and wouldn't doubt it a bit.

Sure looks like a bullet hole in that second picture.

Pant buckets and mirrors...

nope, def not a bullet hole.

If you look at it up close, it is clear that it it not a bullet hole, also I dont think much of the mirror would be left at all if the bullet and the muzzle blast coming out the end of the rifle hit it that close.

Now thats a Whiskey Dent

The concussion of an un-braked .30-06 shooting across the hood of my pick-up once caused the rear-view mirror to "unglue" from the windshield and fall to the floorboard.

Yeah I shot a 300wsm across the hood of my truck one time... the windshield that had a small crack in it now looks like a spider web on one side

I want to know how your gonna explain that one to your insurance agent!

new mirrors run about 30 bucks.

Buff it out.

Sure looks like a bullet hole, think your buddy owes you a new mirror

HMMM now looking at it I agree that its a bullet hole

Even up close it looks like a bullet hole, and it even matches the exit hole. Looks like there is even a little powder residue around it.

The old flash light test will set you buddy free or convict him! !!!

A co-worker had a Wthby 30-378 with a break. Hung it out the window of his brother in laws Toy L/C. Shredded the passenger mirror.

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.

Worth getting 5 pigs for sure

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.

Take a close up for us.

Where are you buying mirrors for $30 ? Harbor freight? Geez, friggin set of spark plugs cost $50 bucks these days.

almost looks like two holes. what gun/cal was he using?

Have an acquaintance that had to buy a left handed semi-auto rifle to shoot out of the driver side of his truck. He kept complaining about right handed rifles ejecting brass and cracking his windshield. LOL

Whoops!

You should shoot the other one so they match

ebay

dealer wants 150.

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.

I hate muzzle brakes lol

This is why most of us hunt out of trucks........ mirrors are a lot cheaper than back windows

if his muzzle brake did that he might want to get that looked at !!!

That's some serious damage from a brake!

Do the flashlight test tonight!

The barrel is lower than the sighting devise. That means you can be sighted in just right on the piggy, and hit the mirror...

that's been happening to jeep mirrors and windshields before brakes were thought of!!!

Oops

wow

maybe looking thru a scope and didnt check his muzzle clearance.

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

Blow it up and you can see the bullet hole.

+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.

Gotta be more careful than that

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!

No need to provide a flashlight test. If you did someone would still dispute the results. and/or your story

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.

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.

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.

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.

I gotta go with the group on this one. I'd say your buddy didn't clear his muzzle of your mirror before his shot.

That's a heated mirror based on the defrost picture on the glass. I don't know where you're going to find 1 of those for only 30 dollars. I'm going with the group on this 1, your buddy shot your mirror out

That is bullet hole!