1)Do you know anyone who has shot their television?

2) Do you know anyone who has thrown the Xmas/Thanksgiving turkey out in the yard?

-I got two each.

yes to the shot TV

A friend of mine, a cop, was dry firing his pistol at the TV. He has someone stop by and during this time he had reloaded the pistol.

After the person left he decided to practice dry firing again and put a put a 230 grain thru the TV.

"studid is as studid does"

Havent shot the tv in my house - God knows it deserves it - but I have used old tv sets as targets at the rubbish dump. Takes more than a .22 rf to punch a hole in one of those old tubes too , I might add

Yes to the TV, about 3 or 4 different incidents now.

No on the turkey.

Yes a 45acp verses TV.

No and no

Yes as to the TV...when I was 18 or 19 my best friend and I were at one of his brother in laws friends house watching a Cowboy's playoff game when the "friend" got pissed off at a bad call and pulled a sawed off 20 guage double barrel from between the cushions on the couch he was sitting on and gave the TV both barrels from about 8 feet...my best friend and I left while he was trying to reload. Funny what beer makes some people do...

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Originally posted by muzza:
Havent shot the tv in my house - God knows it deserves it - but I have used old tv sets as targets at the rubbish dump. Takes more than a .22 rf to punch a hole in one of those old tubes too , I might add

That's interesting. Once when I was sitting as a member of grand jury considering issuing a true bill for 1st degree murder, a ballistic forensics expert presented a bullet which had been fired from above and behind an innocent young man who was at home in a recliner watching TV after getting home from junior high school. The bullet entered the middle of the top of his head and exited through his right eye.

When asked where she found it, she indicated on a sketch a part of the room which was BEHIND the young man's body and the chair in which he died.

When we asked her (the expert was female) how the bullet landed behind him if it had exited the front of his face, she said at first that confused her as well. But careful examination of the TV set showed the bullet had struck the screen, leaving a bloody smudge on the glass, and had bounced back onto the carpet behind him.

We issued a true bill, charging his half-sister with murder. There was another girl with her, who confessed to being in on the crime, and indicated his sister had killed the lad so they could steal their (his and her) mother's piggy bank which had about $700 in it, and go back to California from which his sister had just been involuntarily moved by the mother.

The half-sister got off, BTW...admitted the shooting and was found with the stolen $700 hidden in her room, but claimed self-defense. Accused the dead half-brother, who was several years younger than she was and several years behind her in school, of having tried to molest her. There was no evidence whatsoever presented of that molestation accusation, but a jury bought it.

IIRC the girl who had confessed to being in on the crime got 20 years. She had stolen her dad's gun to give to the half-sister to use, but did not shoot the gun. She apparently did not know it was loaded or that the half-sister intended to fire it during the theft.

The cartridge was 9 m/m parabellum.

TV's and PC monitors as targets for the kids. It helps gain their interest as they are every day objects that they can all associate with.

No to the turkey butI do know someone that tossed a leg of pork out of a 3rd storey apartment window.

My father once threw the tumble dryer out of the kitchen door in the back yard one Sunday morning. Never found out why. He wasn't the kind of man you could ask those sorts of questions of.

Supposedly Jeff Cooper shot his gas meter with a then new S&W M29 .44 mag, thru the sliding glass patio door.
C.G.B.

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I do know someone that tossed a leg of pork out of a 3rd storey apartment window.

My father once threw the tumble dryer out of the kitchen door in the back yard one Sunday morning.

-the panel in the judges' booth rate these as two positives.

I've shot a TV.

There was a supervisor where I once worked that brought a ham in for Christmas and got PO'ed when one of the workers brought in a turkey. He threw the turkey down the hall and kicked it down the dock ramp.

When I was in gunsmithing school there was a student who was visiting another one .He picked up a 44 mag and 'dry fired' ,destroying the tv. 44mag is a good carridge for that !
That was only one of his misadventures before they threw him out of the school !

I can vaguely understand why someone would be drunk,stupid or mad enough to shoot their functioning TV.

Why anyone would be drunk, stupid, or mad enough to throw a holiday turkey out in the yard escapes me unless it was on fire or something similar.

AFA shooting a functioning TV, I don't recall any, but I had a bookie buddy of mine bludgeon one into TV heaven with a baseball bat when a horrible play/call on (IIRC and I may not, been nearly 30 years) Dallas Cowboys game cost him about $15,000.

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Originally posted by mete:
When I was in gunsmithing school there was a student who was visiting another one .He picked up a 44 mag and 'dry fired' ,destroying the tv. 44mag is a good carridge for that !
That was only one of his misadventures before they threw him out of the school !

What was it that Forest Gump said about stupid?

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
I can vaguely understand why someone would be drunk,stupid or mad enough to shoot their functioning TV.

Why anyone would be drunk, stupid, or mad enough to throw a holiday turkey out in the yard escapes me unless it was on fire or something similar.

AFA shooting a functioning TV, I don't recall any, but I had a bookie buddy of mine bludgeon one into TV heaven with a baseball bat when a horrible play/call on (IIRC and I may not, been nearly 30 years) Dallas Cowboys game cost him about $15,000.

I'm advised that's another in the plus column- scratch one television.

No to shooting the TV (been tempted though) or to tossing the turkey but my brother did throw the Christmas tree out, decorations and all, one year.

Yup, done both, not at the same time. I was shootin at rats in the trailer and as I was leadin the big one I swept over and hit the tube. Then the pan I put the turkey in started to leak because of the bullet holes so I tossed it out in the yard. The dogs started on it and the coyotes and racoons finished it off. These were when I was still drinkin.

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Originally posted by Jerry Liles:
No to shooting the TV (been tempted though) or to tossing the turkey but my brother did throw the Christmas tree out, decorations and all, one year.

-judges rule the tree a technical turkey.

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Originally posted by 45otto:
Yup, done both, not at the same time. I was shootin at rats in the trailer and as I was leadin the big one I swept over and hit the tube. Then the pan I put the turkey in started to leak because of the bullet holes so I tossed it out in the yard. The dogs started on it and the coyotes and racoons finished it off. These were when I was still drinkin.

-I have "before and after" stories myself