That sucks. It had to have happened Friday during the day. I loaded my truck that morning, and I know it hadn't happened yet because I opened the tool box from that side and didn't see anything. I drove from Platteville (school) to Neosho (hometown) with my roommate and unloaded my truck. Didn't see anything, but wasn't looking. Then we went to Cabelas, and were in there for about an hour. I wonder if someone was trying to chamber some ammo in the parking lot or something. I was at WalMart too, but the way i was parked, you would've had to be standing in the building to shoot it. I always wondered about those greeters though I wouldn't think it was intentional because someone who was after me would've shot a tire, a window, or the radiator. It couldn't have been very big either. I don't think it was a 9mm, because it was pretty small. It was either a small pistol round from relatively close, or a high powered rifle (no bigger than 30-06 or .308) from pretty far away. I talked to security at Cabelas and went through all their survielance cameras and found nothing. They told me they'd call me back if they found anything.

 

Some good ole boy (NO offense intended I are one) was probably checking out his new varmit rifle in the parking lot and didn't realize he had jacked a round into the chamber. After the accidental shot when no body was hurt, Bubba and his squirrel dog dog Leroy probably hi tailed it outta there in his El Camino.

 

Yeah. If that's the case, he should've had the decency to at least report the accident to the police or store security. I do believe that what goes around comes around, and that everybody gets whats coming to them. It just sucks that I have to pay for someone else's stupidity.

 

Well, it's good to know that

STACKS SAVE LIVES

 

Just an observation if I may. The round followed a fairly flat trajectory as it entered and exited the tool box. That means it was fired fairly close to your truck. If it had been fired from any distance it would have had more of an arc as it entered and exited. The first time it struck the tool box it exited cleanly. The second impact was almost as clean as the first with almost no tearing of the aluminum. The exit from the stack looks clean and round as well. I would be willing to bet this was made by ball ammo, not a hollow point of soft tip. A hot pistol load might do it but I'd look toward a medium velocity rifle round. I would also look around the RR corner to see if you have any new scratches on the end of the bed or possibly even a hand print.

 

I can't find anything else out of place. The paint is only a year old on the bed, so it is pretty much mint. I looked everywhere for the bullet, but it must have been deflected out of the bed, because it hit the stack slightly to the right of center. If it did end up in the bed, it probably rolled around until it fell out the hole my exhaust comes up through. I should also measure the entrance and exit "wounds" with my caliper to see how much it expanded, if at all. It probably won't be extremely accurate as to what caliber the bullet was, however. This whole thing is kind of ironic, because I've had people tell me that I should get a different Job (Work at Lee Precision where we make rifle and handgun reloaders) because guns are the devil. I usually tell these people off, and now here I stand with a bullet hole in my truck.

 

it didnt penetrate the stack thats a reflection you see!!! i think!!
i agree about the ball round for sure!!
probly a 9mm or 38spl i bet

 

No, it didn't penetrate the stack. I agree, it probably wasn't jacketed. I wish i could find it. I should look in the parking lot next weekend when I get back home. Maybe It would match up with some ammo that was bought the same day at Cabelas, and the Washington County Sheriff could pay them a visit.

 

You work at Lee? You just made it to the top of my good list!!!!Have a set of ACP dies that I've owned from the 80's. Still running strong....Thank You folks for good products.....

 

Reminds me of my '72 Chevelle that came from California. When I parted it out, I found the bullet hole behind one of the light buckets. They sure seem to hate American iron down there. Maybe you need to get a lowered Honda w/a 5" kazoo fart pipe.

 

I still have the first LEE hand-loader set that I started with, still complete in the original box, .30-30 W.C.F; thousands and thousands of rounds were loaded in that little die.(the kind that you "hammer" the shell into the die and then knock it back out with a punch)

I bought it when I was 14-years old at a gun store in either Paducah or Reidland KY.

I have since accumulated a bunch of LEE products, more of the "hand-loader" sets, an actual LEE press, more dies for the press, bullet-molds of all sorts, and a big bottom-pour lead melting pot.

I think it would be really neat to have a job there; anything would beat working for my family for minimum wage.

 

Yeah, I do like my job at Lee. I make custom dies for crazy/weird calibers that aren't very common. anything from 17s to the monster 50 BMG. I know the owner pretty well now too. great guy to work for. I really do think it is neat to have a job there. Some of the stuff they dream up for production is simply amazing!

 

Which reminds me, if a bullet would've went through the cab it could've hit some ammo that I have, and that could've been ugly

 

Naw...You'd have been ok...Even if it hits a primer. Bad case IF it would have happened...Fire from the powder burning..Most of the time the primer goes and blows up the case or blows the bullet and powder out.

 

LOL, yea I'm with ya. Have been casting and reloading since 1973. Best "QUIET TIME" I've ever had...LOL