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Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 03:36 PM
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Just curious . . . 
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 03:38 PM
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 There's got to be a story behind this. Please include pics! 
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 03:47 PM
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I've literally shot "the broad side of a barn" instead of an opossum.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 04:21 PM
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I have shot my yard feeder. Did it twice. Patches worked fine. I was doing coon removal, but I misjudged the location of the coon relative to the feeder -twice. It was dark…
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 04:48 PM
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 There's got to be a story behind this. Please include pics!  Ha! no story behind it but DNS and I were recently on hogs and one of them decided to run in front of his truck and during the shooting he asks me for a general location of the runner and I calmly reply “he running at your truck” to which he responds “oh… great” in a semi-concerned tone  Here is a screen grab from the video from my scope Got me to thinking that surely someone out there has challenged their inner Robin Hood . . .
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 05:08 PM
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 05:26 PM
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I have shot out my side mirror with an AR shooting at running pigs out of the truck on the ranch. Didn't even realize I had done it at first either.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 05:45 PM
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I have shot out my side mirror with an AR shooting at running pigs out of the truck on the ranch. Didn't even realize I had done it at first either. You just reminded me that I shattered a side mirror on my dodge shooting out of a truck The ejected piece of brass hit it just right to spider crack it Note: that’d be a right side ejecting AR from the driver seat , if of been fine if shooting from the passenger side
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 06:04 PM
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No but got tired of waiting for the hogs to stop climbing the feeder legs so I could get a shot.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/29/25 11:55 PM
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One of the first dozen or so first rules of hunting is to not shoot your ride home. Just sayin'.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 12:24 AM
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I have shot out my side mirror with an AR shooting at running pigs out of the truck on the ranch. Didn't even realize I had done it at first either. You just reminded me that I shattered a side mirror on my dodge shooting out of a truck The ejected piece of brass hit it just right to spider crack it Note: that’d be a right side ejecting AR from the driver seat , if of been fine if shooting from the passenger side I wouldn't say I am in good company, but at least I am not alone.  They were on a parade route right into the middle of my pasture where we had lost 12 bales of haygrazer to feral swine the week before. I was out. for. blood! I was doing pretty well for off handed shooting out the driver window. 6 died, 4 more were hit. I quit shooting when I saw the chrome cap of the driver's side mirror housing fly off. Fortunately I was alone and nothing but the pigs, dirt on my misses, and truck were the only things in harm's way. The mirror cap is just cosmetic and i didn't get any glass or operative components. I violated the rule about knowing what was downrange for a split second. It was the least safe I have ever felt with a firearm. I play it off as humorous, but target fixation is real and the temporary loss of situational awareness in the moment rattled me.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 12:41 AM
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My son and his friends have been awful hard on my feeders while pig hunting.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 12:53 AM
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Shot hole in floorboard, getting gun out window! Was about 18. Knocked a piece of the trans bell housing off. Guess I missed the torque converter, never had a problem.
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01/30/25 01:13 AM
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I got a buddy with three holes in the bed of his truck from using the truck as a gun rest and not thinking about the scope being a couple inches higher than the barrel.
He did one, and a land owner that lets us hunt on his land did the other two.
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 01:32 AM
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Well, I did shoot a hole in the toe of my right tennis shoe. Living along the Mississippi River, my hometown was right along the Levee. The town dump was on the other side of the Levee. I went over to shoot cans and bottles. Maybe I was about 15. As I headed back to the town side, a car full of girls (the entire cheerleading team) met me. I was in heaven. I rested the muzzle of my trusty Stevens 87D on the end of my Converse All Star shoe while we talked. When they started to leave, I picked up the rifle, and I suppose I had pressure on the trigger, and BANG. The girls asked if I was Ok and then left. When they were gone, I saw a hole in the end of the shoe and a bit of gunsmoke coming out. I shucked off the shoe, and the bullet had missed my toes.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 02:59 AM
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I had an old POS VW Beetle many years ago. It was basically put together out of parts from several different year models.
It was a real PITA to own and drive and I thought it should have a bullet hole in it.
So I shot it.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 02:16 PM
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I have shot out my side mirror with an AR shooting at running pigs out of the truck on the ranch. Didn't even realize I had done it at first either. You just reminded me that I shattered a side mirror on my dodge shooting out of a truck The ejected piece of brass hit it just right to spider crack it Note: that’d be a right side ejecting AR from the driver seat , if of been fine if shooting from the passenger side I wouldn't say I am in good company, but at least I am not alone.  They were on a parade route right into the middle of my pasture where we had lost 12 bales of haygrazer to feral swine the week before. I was out. for. blood! I was doing pretty well for off handed shooting out the driver window. 6 died, 4 more were hit. I quit shooting when I saw the chrome cap of the driver's side mirror housing fly off. Fortunately I was alone and nothing but the pigs, dirt on my misses, and truck were the only things in harm's way. The mirror cap is just cosmetic and i didn't get any glass or operative components. I violated the rule about knowing what was downrange for a split second. It was the least safe I have ever felt with a firearm. I play it off as humorous, but target fixation is real and the temporary loss of situational awareness in the moment rattled me. I sent a bullet straight through the middle of the mirror. Luckily it was my ranch truck. I don't think I ever even got it fixed.
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01/30/25 02:24 PM
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Someone should make a compilation video of these, like the Bill Dance fishing bloopers.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 03:20 PM
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Before I retired, Co. hired a guy with a Crown Vic - yup, couple 'holes' in it - and testicles hanging off the rear bumper. He didn't last long.
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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01/30/25 08:01 PM
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HAHA someone has done this for sure!
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Re: Have you ever shot your truck, buggy, or tractor instead of a hog ?
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02/01/25 03:40 PM
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I have shot out my side mirror with an AR shooting at running pigs out of the truck on the ranch. Didn't even realize I had done it at first either. You just reminded me that I shattered a side mirror on my dodge shooting out of a truck The ejected piece of brass hit it just right to spider crack it Note: that’d be a right side ejecting AR from the driver seat , if of been fine if shooting from the passenger side I wouldn't say I am in good company, but at least I am not alone.  They were on a parade route right into the middle of my pasture where we had lost 12 bales of haygrazer to feral swine the week before. I was out. for. blood! I was doing pretty well for off handed shooting out the driver window. 6 died, 4 more were hit. I quit shooting when I saw the chrome cap of the driver's side mirror housing fly off. Fortunately I was alone and nothing but the pigs, dirt on my misses, and truck were the only things in harm's way. The mirror cap is just cosmetic and i didn't get any glass or operative components. I violated the rule about knowing what was downrange for a split second. It was the least safe I have ever felt with a firearm. I play it off as humorous, but target fixation is real and the temporary loss of situational awareness in the moment rattled me. I sent a bullet straight through the middle of the mirror. Luckily it was my ranch truck. I don't think I ever even got it fixed. My driver side mirror still has a .264 hole.
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02/04/25 04:44 AM
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I put a 2 nice holes through the tow mirror of my truck one time. I saw the hog perfectly through my thermal scope, right over the top of the tow mirror. I pulled the trigger and the pig didn't move. I squeezed off a second round and that one didn't hit him. He just walked back into the woods with no urgency. When I pulled the rifle back into the truck I had 2 holes through the tow mirror right next to each other.
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02/12/25 10:19 PM
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My brother shot 2 holes through the hood of our 1985 F150 about 12 years ago. We were driving through the pasture and saw some hogs.. he got out and laid the rifle over the hood of the truck, shot twice, and didn't realize the scope was higher than the barrel. Thankfully no hits to engine block or anything major. Ran duct tape over the holes for a long time but finally did some body work on the truck a few months ago and patched them up!
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My brother shot 2 holes through the hood of our 1985 F150 about 12 years ago. We were driving through the pasture and saw some hogs.. he got out and laid the rifle over the hood of the truck, shot twice, and didn't realize the scope was higher than the barrel. Thankfully no hits to engine block or anything major. Ran duct tape over the holes for a long time but finally did some body work on the truck a few months ago and patched them up! Without the duct tape reminder it's going to happen again.
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius
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02/13/25 01:23 PM
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Took a friend out for his first night hunt using NV and a pair of 6.8 ARs. The action got pretty good when a big sounder of 18-20 came in about 10PM. Noticed the next evening that the cell connected game camera didn't send any pics. Went to check on it and it was pointing at the ground and noticed battery pack on the ground. Got closer and noticed hole thru camera.
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