Anybody know how this happened

[Southdowners]

It looks too smooth a dent for an pellet from an air rifle. My guess would be that it was caused by a pebble or stone being thrown up from a passing vehicle on the road outside your drive.

 

[klaatu]

1. Obtain an air rifle
2. Fire a shot at the rear of your motorhome
3. Compare the effect to the original

Sorry, not helpful.

 

[vin0114]

.177 pellet shot damage to 'LazyGarlick' tin cap with HW45 air pistol springer.

 

[TheAleMan]

Could quite easily come from a BB gun. Plastic pellets that you may not necessarily find like could with a lead pellet. Gutted for you.

 

[pappajohn]

It looks too smooth a dent for an pellet from an air rifle. My guess would be that it was caused by a pebble or stone being thrown up from a passing vehicle on the road outside your drive.

Thrown at exactly 90° to the passing car!
The van was parked on their drive, not parallel parked on the road.

See post #93 above.

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[Southdowners]

Thrown at exactly 90° to the passing car!
The van was parked on their drive, not parallel parked on the road.

See post #93 above.

Paul said his vehicle was parked on his drive with the back facing the road. The damage is to the back of his vehicle. Stones can be thrown sideways from vehicles.

 

[Lanerboy]

.177 pellet shot damage to 'LazyGarlick' tin cap with HW45 air pistol springer.
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Looks very similar to the damage on Paul's vehicle if you ask me, i still think air rifle

 

[Malcolm Bolt]

If it was facing away from a confined area I would think a stone from a catapult.

 

[Gooney]

If you want to disguise it how about a dummy small vent?

 

[TheBig1]

We were at a c&cc rally when a friends van received similar damage. We were sat outside enjoying a few beers when somebody in the next field fired a shotgun (at a fox he said). some of the pellets passed through the hedge and hit the side of my friends nearly new caravan. none punctured through the aluminium skin but left small round indentations, near identical to the OP

the holes got filled and the entire side resprayed with a new set of graphics to repair

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[vin0114]

We were at a c&cc rally when a friends van received similar damage. We were sat outside enjoying a few beers when somebody in the next field fired a shotgun (at a fox he said). some of the pellets passed through the hedge and hit the side of my friends nearly new caravan. none punctured through the aluminium skin but left small round indentations, near identical to the OP

the holes got filled and the entire side resprayed with a new set of graphics to repair

hope the idiot paid for the repairs?

 

[pappajohn]

Paul said his vehicle was parked on his drive with the back facing the road. The damage is to the back of his vehicle. Stones can be thrown sideways from vehicles.

Strange these two pics are almost identical.
A small stone would need a lot of volocity to do that impact depth and flicking from a tyre just wouldn't be enough.

 

[Southdowners]

Strange these two pics are almost identical.
A small stone would need a lot of volocity to do that impact depth and flicking from a tyre just wouldn't be enough.

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You may be right... I haven’t studied the velocity of small stones from a passing vehicle. However, I doubt there is an elliptical gun pellet in production!

 

[funflair]

You may be right... I haven’t studied the velocity of small stones from a passing vehicle. However, I doubt there is an elliptical gun pellet in production!

That would suggest to me that a round object came in at an angle to create the oval mark and then ricocheted off at a tangent.

Martin

 

[gus-lopez]

Paul said his vehicle was parked on his drive with the back facing the road. The damage is to the back of his vehicle. Stones can be thrown sideways from vehicles.

We had one years ago when we moved in to a new house & they were still building.Lorry went past & drove over a stone that was fired at 90º straight through the double glazed bay window. Only got through first pane & left a 1/2" bullet sized hole & just cracked inside pane . Stone was in the double glazed void.

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[tonyidle]

It's a smooth dent 4 to 5 mm in diameter. I'm with the air gun theory. Find out which neighbour got one for Christmas.

 

[Augusta08]

QUOTE! "these things can travel for a mile with a decent rifle..." wow ..an Air Rifle" I must say that does rather surprises me. and I am very familiar with fire arms.

My Weihrauch .22 would put a hole in where it went in and bigger one where it came out! But I agree a mile is a stretch, half of a mile no problem.

Looks like stone damage to me, if the picture is the correct way up, it's come up at an angle.

 

[Silver-Fox]

We were at a c&cc rally when a friends van received similar damage. We were sat outside enjoying a few beers when somebody in the next field fired a shotgun (at a fox he said). some of the pellets passed through the hedge and hit the side of my friends nearly new caravan. none punctured through the aluminium skin but left small round indentations, near identical to the OP

the holes got filled and the entire side resprayed with a new set of graphics to repair

The person with the gun clearly had no idea of code of conduct whilst using a shot gun.

You should fire along hedge lines not towards them.

 

[Allanm]

Doesn’t look like an air gun pellet to me. Even a low powered gun would have put a hole in the outer skin or the dent would have been perfectly round.
-Stones catapulted up from passing cars can easily cause a lot of damage.

 

[TheBig1]

hope the idiot paid for the repairs?

The person with the gun clearly had no idea of code of conduct whilst using a shot gun.

You should fire along hedge lines not towards them.

Yes the idiot with the shotgun got in trouble with the police and landowner and the insurance from the farm paid for the repairs

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[CazPaul]

Many thanks to everyone for their replies and thoughts

The road is 7.10 metres to the kerb so a stone would have to travel at least 8 metres at such velocity to do it, maybe it could??

 

[gus-lopez]

Many thanks to everyone for their replies and thoughts

The road is 7.10 metres to the kerb so a stone would have to travel at least 8 metres at such velocity to do it, maybe it could??

That's around what the distance was on our smashed double glazing

 

[pappajohn]

That's around what the distance was on our smashed double glazing

How big, round and smooth was the stone?

 

[Jasz]

It seems a long way from the road to be a stone, but I do know that stones can be flicked out sideways at a fair speed from a bike with high pressure tyres.

 

[vin0114]

pappajohn please tell me how to get a .gif file to show my ffing head slamming a brick wall. I've tried and failed

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[pappajohn]

Not sure if a GIF is an allowed file on the fun software.
You may have to save it to a hosting site and try posting a URL from there.
I usually abandon a file if it won't show on a post.

 

[Deneb]

Many thanks to everyone for their replies and thoughts

The road is 7.10 metres to the kerb so a stone would have to travel at least 8 metres at such velocity to do it, maybe it could??

A few years ago my neighbour across the road was mowing his lawn when the mower flicked up a stone that flew across the road and my front garden before smashing through both panes of glass in my double glazed front door - a total distance of around 20 metres. So yes, I reckon it could.

 

[Off da Grid]

I flicked a stone with my mountain bike the other night made a hell of a bang when it hit something on the other side of the road, luckily it wasn't a car. So I reckon it was a stone.

 

[vin0114]

Its exceptionally clear what caused this damage and especially as I have taken the time out and actually fired a lead pellet into a similar surface and photographed the result that shows a clear defined image identical to the OP's posted pic. This was the damage from a 0.177mm 8.44grain pellet at around 750 ft/sec approx' 11.5 ft/lbs from a distance of 3 metres.

 

[pappajohn]

Its exceptionally clear what caused this damage and especially as I have taken the time out and actually fired a lead pellet into a similar surface and photographed the result that shows a clear defined image identical to the OP's posted pic. This was the damage from a 0.177mm 8.44grain pellet at around 750 ft/sec approx' 11.5 ft/lbs from a distance of 3 metres.

I fully agree..... But you'll never convince the doubters and theorists.

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