Are my windows being smashed by stones, air rifles or bullets? glass travelled 17ft and left a marble sz hole

bam bam gee

Air Rifle or BB gun.

ian l

air rifle!!! the pellets flatten when thy hit the glass so make a bigger hole look out side below the windows.

philr999

Air rifle / BB Gun. A kid with a BB gun shot a hole in our living room window when I was a kid (a long time ago), same sort of damage. The BB, when found, was at the other end of the room.

Loved

sounds alot like a gun i did have a rock smashed into my window before by a tractor and it didnt have the same result like what your talking about untill you can find out more crawl under your windows and stay low also you can set up a security camera

topdog

right jack get out from under the bed cause if you cant find any stones inside or outside the window, then it is likely to be a high powered air rifle. when you check the angle of the whole in the glass you can estimate where the shot is coming from. go outside and look for a statigic fairly consealed point to fire from and monitor it.

â„¢Spacemanâ„¢

marble

Air Rifle.

egg chaser

For the pellet to make a hole the size of a marble it would have to be a .22 with an illegal draw weight (over 12 ftlbs) fired from about 10ft (3mtrs).It does seem that you have a case of stone throwers.A window breaks randomly if the stone has an irratic surface but would make a neat little hole if the stone was a smooth pebble of only 4-5 ounces.This means that the force used would only have to be negligable as the impact is restricted to a very small contact area.

BushRaider69

Call the Firearms Officer at your local police station (assuming you're in the UK). They are not the gun-toting Robocops, but the guys who assess applications for firearms licences and control the local shooting population. He (or She) will come round as a matter of urgency and will be able to tell you outright whether you are being shot at.

If it is an (air)gun, and the shots keep coming in, please try to stay out of the way. Inexperienced people, and especially kids, do not appreciate just how powerful and deadly these things are - I've been shooting for years, and got hit accidentally once with near fatal consequences. I know it's not productive, but safety is paramount, and the cops WILL deal with these people firmly - just imagine the look on these idiots faces when the Gun-cars turn up outside their house at 3am and half-a-dozen MP5-toting, body-armoured kick their door in!

hott.dawgâ„¢

Sounds like a slingshot to me.I used marbles as ammo when i was a kid.They are deadly accurate and painful to be shot with.They can break the skin and leave a big ol welt.

Amanda K

It should stop once the school holidays are over.
When one of my exes threw stones I ended up with a nice collection of debris from his cellar floor, but the glass all stayed under the window.
You may be right.

.45 Peacemaker

If they are marble sized there either rocks or paintball guns shooting ball bearings

fr_chuck

I would say that a 22 leaves a round hole, but not normally marble size slightly smaller than that.

A pellet since it is flat not rounded on the end, will leave a larger hole and since it is going slower it will cause more shatter than a 22. A 22 would sometimes not do anything but make star runs around the hole.

A rock large enough to break a window would normally be larger than a marble.

Without actually seeing it,it is hard to tell but no matter what is used rock, pellet or gun, something will be in the house that caused it. You just have not found it yet.

a 22 could go though one or two additional walls of the home before it stoped, and the holes would be fairly small in the wall.

bulldogslamento

Marble sized??? That's bigger than a .22. If the glass is the first thing it's hit and it's that big then I'd say it's more like a .45. The fact that you're getting holes rather than smashed windows leads me to believe it's not a rock. It takes a certain hardness and velocity to make a hole in glass. I'd call the cops and keep your head down.

Me-She

Sounds like a sling-shot with dirt clods. They can be custom made & dry hard like a tiny brick & fall apart on impact.

Snowy

If it was a bullet you would find it embedded somewhere. It could be a high powered air rifle in which case you will find the remains of the pellet (now squashed) outside the house under the window as it probably would not have penetrated but instead caused a sabot effect.

Could be stones and catapult though.

Either way the police need to get off their arses and help you out.

Veritas

Is it toughened glass? this will tend not to shatter when hit by something relatively light and travelling fast. If it is ordinary plate glass, it would almost certainly require something to be travelling at high speed to avoid shattering the glass. Could be a glass cutter if it is a clean hole.

Liz T

it's an air rifle(or pistol) I was teaching at north London infant school a few years ago he class came under attack from a block of flats opposite the damage to the windows was the same as you describe. Good luck mate hope you survive to find out.

loreric

Have them check out someone with a slingshot, the type with a arm or wrist brace, who has a stash of glass marbles. The scenerio that you describe is consistent with that type of equipment and it's effects.

paintball puppy

how about marbles and catapult?

knighttemplar1119

Try putting a plastic film on the back of the windows to stop the window breaking. Once the kids realise that you have out-witted them they will get bored. Or use rocket launchers....

mini prophet of fubar

could also be a high powered catapult, so check for ball bearings and marbles as well

LadyC

air rifle

Leone

I wonder if anyone can fathom how the glass in my window broke in a circle? The piece that came out has two little spots where it looks as if someone has used a tiny drill

Cockface9988

It sounds like a .22 airrifle round probaly using hollow point ammo so it punches a clean hole

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