Apparently I'm Lucky

[DDoug]

OP needs a protective uniform:

 

[Tones]

Here are the pic of the event

 

[Tones]

I don't believe this was deliberate because the front window wasn't punctured which to my thinking that the velocity had dropped off. I'm thinking the hiss I heard was the round which had ricochet between the glass and frame and I was approximately in that line and walking away from the machine.

 

[Queenslander]

If it was a legal shooter it would be easy to track them down and rip a charge up them, as they should have the landholders permission as a minimum.
There would be a few dollars involved replacing that glass.
Illegal, they are pretty cocky trespassing during the day.

 

[Tones]

If it was a legal shooter it would be easy to track them down and rip a charge up them, as they should have the landholders permission as a minimum.
There would be a few dollars involved replacing that glass.
Illegal, they are pretty cocky trespassing during the day.

The rear window was over a grand.
The big problem was the lack of forensics and me moving the machine which I did under the owners instructions according to the police.
All along the SE Queensland coastal ranges poaching is a huge problem year round with seemingly very little done about it, just worse at this time of the year

 

[aighead]

Glad you are ok Tones, that's nuts!

 

[skyking1]

That's a sick feeling. I remember being over a hill from some bird hunters and hearing the 'ssssssssh' of the shotgun pellets just overhead.

 

[cfherrman]

I was working on a well with some dove hunters next section over got tunnel vision and shot at us and shot hit the cab of the truck. We yelled and they left . Next time they will get some back

 

[Welder Dave]

That's scary!

 

[Vetech63]

I hope you have a food taster

 

[Queenslander]

So that story has reached that far?
This country is getting weirder by the day.
Also currently have inquest into sad story of crazy dude who stabbed six people to death in a shopping mall.

 

[Truck Shop]

That's scary!

Miss as good as a mile, that was a close one, close is only good in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Any day above ground is a good one.
Scary--that's a 5/8's high test chain for recovery that no longer will coil up and the ends of each
link have turned white fused together and it forms a stick.

 

[Tones]

Miss as good as a mile, that was a close one, close is only good in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Any day above ground is a good one.
Scary--that's a 5/8's high test chain for recovery that no longer will coil up and the ends of each
link have turned white fused together and it forms a stick.

I've seen that before, stood like a proud Cock.

 

[Truck Shop]

I've seen that before, stood like a proud Cock.

To keep it clean you must be referring to one of these
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[aighead]

We found a bullet lodged in an impossible spot in our front porch siding one day shortly after moving into our current house. We were sitting out there and I looked over and saw a small hole in the siding that I hadn't previously noticed. It's a covered porch and the hole was about 5 feet from the porch floor. There are a fair amount of trees and growth in the direction the bullet would have come from, so that seems unlikely, the only thing I can think is that it bounced into place and for that to happen the angle would have gone right past our faces where we normally sit. I didn't like to see that much.

 

[Willie B]

2 days ago I was asked if I could operate a dozer for a bloke cutting tracks for a farmer in some reasonably steep hill country, a job that I haven't done much of since my early 20s which is about 50yrs ago. During the conversation with the dozer owner doubt entered my head so said to that I needed to have a look then give my answer. Off I went,had a look then checked out the machine, a D8t with bout 6000hrs on the clock and started yesterday. Client very happy with my work rate and quality.
Today did a section and decided to have a walk to decide were to build the track, parked the dozer, got off and was about 2metres away when I heard a loud brief hiss and the sound of breaking glass. The rear window was smashed and a hole in the RH top and the window wiper bent. Further investigation revealed the small front window pushed out of the frame, shattered, but no hole.
This was doing my head in, nothing like a rock or tree branch in the cab,tractor stationary, *** so what would knock glass into the cab from the rear, the knock glass outwards at the front.
The penny dropped, it the roar, deer mating season and shooters are going nuts. Seems like a bullet has done this damage and my head could have been in the flight path then missed again on exit when I was walking.
All of which proves only the good die young.

You sure it was a Cat dozer? Not a Deere?

 

[Willie B]

When is was about 8yrs old dad reconded it was time I learnt to use a rifle. 2 things he was anial about, identify the target and absolutely be aware of the background. If anything didn't align don't fire. This included rocks etc,a decision taking nano seconds to make. At 19 I joined the army and basic training was exactly the same.
So as for stray bullets,that is ********, it's incompetent users. Talked to a mate last night who did 30yrs service and was the RSM at Tarin Kot Afghanistan when a parade was shot up killing 5 Ozzie's. He said with my level of hearing and the noise of the dozer engine idling the slug was only inches away which was the hiss I heard.
To stop this crap registered fire arm owners should have to do a live fire exercise similar to what the Special Forces do in urban combat training where split second decision making is required. One bad decision requires them to forfeit their firearms and licence for a year. That would sort the wheat from the chaff.

My father had served three tours in Army Air Corp, then US Air Force. Before that he had used guns for food. It got drummed into my head at a very early age how to use a gun, & how not to use a gun.

 

[aighead]

You sure it was a Cat dozer? Not a Deere?

Well done.

 

[Tones]

Probably thought it was a feral Cat.

 

[Georgia Iron]

So as for stray bullets,that is ********, it's incompetent users.

Stray bullets are real and happen more than you realize. I have personally been involved with 3. 2 were tracers. One was shooting at a water target bounced and went out through the woods 308 cal. Another one was into a dirt berm it hit the large berm and went straight up 308 cal, diappeared 1/2 mile up. The 3rd was a direct ricochet directly back to my forehead shooting steel plates. The jacket cut my forehead 556 cal. Seen all kinds of wierd things happen shooting cars too.