Whoops, this ever happen to you?

No.....hasn't happened to me.

I'm sure that someone will suggest keeping your finger off the trigger until you have a good sight picture...etc

 

I'd leave that on my car, it's kinda cool.

 

Well at least your practicing that's the good thing. the rig not so good..lol

 

I once blew the rag top off my Olds with muzzle blast, working on improvised urban fighting positions, when I was a young man. I had to drive around with that crap flapping in the wind for months, because in addition to stupid, you're also broke and lazy when you're a young man.

 

I once put a round though a tank oops my bad I was using a law rocket..lol true story well maybe not though but I hit the s.o.b

 

but he didn't shoot the car. :bluelaugh:

 

Yea, powder scorching is pretty easy to achieve, especially on a white enamel like that. OP didn't necessarily do anything wrong, just didn't thank about it.

 

And I'm sure that rubbed right off

 

It looks like you got just close enough, to me. I would say that in a real situation, you wouldn't be concerned with some powder burns.

Vehicles are completely utilitarian for me. I would say as long as you didn't actually shoot the car, you're doing just fine and keep up the practice. It really does make perfect. Of course, if you do view your car as a status symbol or anything else, that could be an issue.

 

Once, while at Grafenwehr, during the dark ages of the cold war, a tank followed the IR beam the wrong way and shot the search light tank...or so the story goes. I didn't see that happen, but did see some guys follow the light the wrong way and have a "Cease Fire!!" called....

(There is a story about range 42 and the gasthaus 42 1/2 that tankers might enjoy, but not enough of them on here to make it worth while.)....

Sight picture is a wonderful thing.

 

powder marks from a .357 when leaning against your wife's white Hardi Plank sided house definitely don't come right off. She painted over those.....

 

Save Yourself a lot of grief and back off from whatever you're hiding behind For your practice. Then be sure of your shot, You get better concealment that way. Also you might practice with something else besides moms car. 2 x 4, Barrel, cardboard box even.

 

People put fake bullet holes on their cars, so why not this? lol

 

That's never happened to me, but now that I've seen it I kind of want to do the same thing on my classic Rover.

I'm pretty sure that's an LR3... in which case I'd keep it. Gives it more credibility-- too many people think Land Rovers are predominantly used by soccer moms as mall crawlers.

 

No, but my son put a .22lr through the passenger side mirror housing on my Subaru Forester while shooting gophers in Montana a few years back. Does that count?

 

I have seen bullet holes in hoods of cars before because people didn't think about the scope/sight picture offset from the barrel at the muzzle. Scope was clear, but the hood was in the line of fire. So all in all, you learned your lesson the easy way.

And as oknow mentioned, it is sometimes better to back away from your cover a little bit. You can't really use it as a rest also if you do that though.

And I agree with mobus. People only think about what they see. Land Rovers are supposed to be rugged, just like jeeps and hummers, but they have been coopted for different, if not equally important tasks of transporting our children safely.

 

My dad told me of a guy that put a few nice holes in the bed of his new truck with a rifle and a poorly sighted in scope.