four rules.... follow them!!!!!!!!!!

[IndyGunworks]

i was definately talking about the property damage that i am not concerned about. i am definately concerned about the dangerous situation, i will be calling the county sherriffs department in the morning.

 

[Yup!]

You have no idea if this is a small piece to a larger issue - get the police involved. Failure to report could come back to haunt you later. You truly have no idea what neighbor shot it, so it isn't your job to investigate and prosecute.

what if they had committed a murder and that round was one of the stray rounds. You going over there asking about it won't end well for you. Neither will failure to report it if someone else finds it later..

 

[Hookeye]

Thankfully my neighbor doesn't own a gun, is just a peaceful outdoorsy type

 

[Racechase1]

If there is a next time, the coroner may be picking up a victim at your house. I'd have called the sheriff instantly.

 

[gunandrun]

What if next time it hits someone. File a report, let the police do their job.

 

[sonofd]

this morning, around 10:30 am, i was in my garage packing things up to head into town to run a few errands like getting salt for the driveway, gas for the snowblower etc. i know, i should have gotten them earlier in the week, but ive been sick, and if my driveway doesnt get cleared, then i only have to hear it from the fiance, i can still get my car out. anyways, i live in a nice narrow valley outside of bargersville, with a few neighbors somewhat close by, i have met the nearest, the next over houses have not. a lot of is in the general area shoot, and being in a narrow valley with nice till hills on either side, everyone who wants to shoot has access to some very nice natural backstops. well, as i am gathering my things, i hear a handful of shots that definately sounded like a pistol go off across the street, first thought, cool, the neighbor wanted to light off a few, no big deal. then i hear the nice scream of a bullet flying through the air and then the nice loud smack of impact, sounded at first like it hit the front of my garage, at this point, adrenaline spikes to 11 out of 10, my thoughts immediately change from "cool" to "INCOMING!!!!!!!!" and i bolt behind both vehicles into the house, grab my AR and post up inside the brick entry way of our side door listening for anything else going on outside. my first reaction is, oh sh*t i am being shot at, get to a better location and get a better weapon than your sidearm. after things calm down a bit, rifle still on safe, bolt locked back (i have the magpul BAD lever, so being ready to go does not take long), i start thinking about what i heard. the round was tumbling through the air, i have heard that noise before when working the pits at atterbury during appleseed events. only one of the handful of rounds came my direction, so i am almost sure it was not intentional, must have been a ricochet off of something. i was inside the garage at the time, so anything would have sounded like it came from across the street, as all the walls of the garage are brick, could have come from anywhere. i wait out inside for a bit, make sure there is no more noise then go inspect the outside of my garage for hits, none found. i know i heard it hit something, but cant find it. i go about my day, get my salt and my gasoline for the snowblower and come home. going through my garage this evening, i found a nice hole punched in one side and out the other side of a center console i have yet to install in my car and a nice dent in the particle board wall behind it. looking on the floor below i find a FMJ round, appears to be .380. i weighed the bullet, 94.3 grains, definately .380. judging by the holes in the console and print on the wall, it HAD to have come from across the street. i went over there to say something, noone was home. will follow up tomorrow. scared the crap out of me, looking at what happened, i was only missed by about 5 or 6 feet at most.

moral of the story: BE AWARE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT IS BEYOND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FOUR RULES EXIST FOR A REASON, AND BREAKING THOSE RULES COULD POSSIBLY KILL SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!
lessons learned: always be suspect of gunfire in your general vicinity, just because people have typically always been safe around you, does not mean someone will not have a lapse of judgement. my best guess at this point is that my neighbor got a new toy and decided to shoot one of the trees in his front yard which faces my driveway and one of the rounds kept going, even though he has a perfectly good berm in his backyard. when i seem them outside again, i will bring up my concerns and let them know what happened. i also learned that my brain seems to work ok under adrenaline and my first reaction of getting to better cover and better weapons knowing that the shots were fired at distance was correct and my gunhandling immediately thereafter was safe, thumb on safety and finger on receiver, not on trigger. think i am going to want to take a fighting rifle course of five at this point.

I don't mean to flame anyone, but it would be easier to read your post if brushed up on punctuation and capitolizing the the first letter of the first word in your sentences.

 

[IndyGunworks]

I didn't find it all that hard to read. I just read it as if we were having a conversation, and not as if I was reading a novel.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I don't mean to flame anyone, but it would be easier to read your post if brushed up on punctuation and capitolizing the the first letter of the first word in your sentences.

The guy's house took a round, he's considering filing a police report on a neighbor and you go grammar nazi on him? WTF-OVER??!!

 

[JettaKnight]

I don't mean to flame anyone, but it would be easier to read your post if brushed up on punctuation and capitolizing the the first letter of the first word in your sentences.

The guy's house took a round, he's considering filing a police report on a neighbor and you go grammar nazi on him? WTF-OVER??!!

I'll back you up sonofd. (although it's 'capitalizing') The post was a bit hard hard to read. If you got time to rant on INGO several hours after the shot was fired, then you've got time to press the shift key (and perhaps the enter key). Plus, there's always time to go back and edit one's post.

And Kelly, just because sonofd politely recommended changes to the post to improve readability does not warrant your impolite response.




As to the post - scary stuff.

 

[SERparacord]

Reminds me of the $3000.00 Kimber thread.

 

[IndyGunworks]

link?

 

[jve153]

first day off work since incident, the county sheriff's officer just left the house. report is filed, they are going to try and make contact with the neighbor and just give them a nice reminder to use a better backstop and not shoot rounds at other people's houses.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Did you recover the bullet?

Able to mic the base and/or weigh it to, perhaps, determine caliber?

-J-

 

[jve153]

Yes I recovered the bullet. It was a .380 fmj weighing in at 94.3 grains. The bullet is now in the possession of the johnson county sheriffs department.

 

[JettaKnight]

Did you recover the bullet?

Able to mic the base and/or weigh it to, perhaps, determine caliber?

-J-

From the OP:

looking on the floor below i find a FMJ round, appears to be .380. i weighed the bullet, 94.3 grains, definately .380.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Sorry. My eyes didn't pick that info out of the OP.

mea culpa.

-J-

 

[JettaKnight]

Sorry. My eyes didn't pick that info out of the OP.

mea culpa.

-J-

Thereby making my point in post #29.