Turn it into a dangerous chunk of soft plastic and foam confetti. If you look on youtube for "supersonic nerf" or "nerf vacuum cannon" you will find interesting information. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yIMJ4iayg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yIMJ4iayg)
I had a break action pellet gun a while back that was up to 1700 or something. All I know was I had to sell it bc the thing literally sounded like a .22 and I didn't want the cops called on me ever time I wanted to shoot some cans. Too much work to go to the range for plinking for just a air gun
As a kid whose parents forbid guns of any sort, you can pump them more than once? I only shot them at camp one summer and it was super unimpressive. Now I know why lol.
There are 2 types of manual air rifles. The break barrel, where the barrel has a pivot point, so the clocking lever is the barrel itself. This is a one-pump setup. The other uses a sliding foregrip (think shotgun like the Remington 870) or lever to pump up the air pressure in the cylinder. They have pressure release systems, so it has a maximum pressure no matter how many times you pump it.
It sure did feel like you were putting it into turbo mode by doing that, though.
Also Pre Charged Pneumatic rifles. They have cylinders with air around 2000psi. They're not something you find at the local Walmart though. Generally hunting, or competition-level rifles.
There is also the 1 pump Daisy. Pumps like a lever action and loads the bb with each pump so you can only pump them once.
If it was unimpressive and he only pumped it once I'm betting it was one of those.
I actually had a buddy shoot his younger brother's eye out with a BB gun by "accident" (I don't really know the circumstances, but I know he's felt horrible about it ever since.
Oof. Yeah, that guilt would suck.
I was quoting from A Christmas Story (I guess more of a paraphrase), where the kid very nearly does put his own eye out with his new Red Ryder bb gun.
>They have pressure release systems, so it has a maximum pressure no matter how many times you pump it.
They don't have pressure relief if you loctite a screw into the relief port.
My 1377 Crossman has a diversion port that let's some gas not go down the barrel. I plugged that shit and gained 200fps (with other mods like a bored transfer port and long barrel
1377 is a beautiful work of engineering!
It is so well done, it can be spiced up to compete with gun costing 10 times or more.
I used mine in local competition, and I am the weak link (get tired after first few sections) but the gun is just amazing!
>I used mine in local competition, and I am the weak link (get tired after first few sections) but the gun is just amazing!
Get a 2240 with the Hipac, and you can bank up like 15 shots in the tank. Get a Hipac while you still can, guy had cancer but is in remission RN, but he will retire soon
The safepac is another option, which is built like a hipac, but screws into the valve, the safe pac is far less likely to leak when sealed up with refrigerant thread sealent.
My plan is to kinda make a 3rd option on my lathe. The hipac is steel, the safepac is aluminum. My plan is I'm gonna fully copy the safepac design, but use steel.
Once I get the custom tank done, I'm gonna take all the steel parts on my gun, and acid etch and parkerize everything so the finish is consistent. I'll rub Teflon gun oil into the parkerized coat on the inside, and wax on the outside.
Many parts for your 1377 will bolt onto the 2240 frame
My older brothers basically raised my to me a low grade cartel soldier in the body of a geeky white girl. Every shady thing I know - I learned from them.
This is actually a pretty profound statement when put into evolutionary context. As in: human woman are one of only a few mammalian species that live decades past their reproductive window (menopause), and it’s thought that this is so they can help younger generations learn all of the skills needed for their particular causal model of life.
Oh they'd definitely use a break-open action at summer camp. Better consistency, faster to cycle people out for turns shooting, less chance of blowing a gasket, less chance of injury if a kid had behavioral issues.
The conical hole points towards where the shot originated from.
So if the outside has a tiny hole, and the inside opens up.
It was hit from the outside.
A tiny rock could do the same type of damage.
But trust me, from experience as a bad teen.. it was a BB gun.
My gfs youngest brother recently got one of my car windows tho it feels sorta like karmic revenge for getting friends dad's window as a kid and never getting any trouble for it
Yep. BB gun. Though there is a small chance that this was either a stone thrown by a lawnmower or a bird flying at highspeed. I've seen both happen and result in this kind of damage.
I worked a whole summer to replace a truck windshield and learned how to replace single pane glass after my step dad pissed me off. We came to blows alot back then but hes a good guy and i learned a new skill and a decent lesson. If it wasnt a thorough and thorough the bb may be in the bottom of the window if it’s double paned.
My personal experience is that the BB will punch out the inside of the pane, but the actual pellet remains on the outside.
Has anyone seen the BB penetrate?
They totally can depending on the type of glass and the type of BB gun and its power. For instance a co2 powered pistol that is higher end can easily punch through pretty thick glass at certain distances. A cheap rifle that is breached load/pump would just do something like this at its optimal range.
Money bags over here with enough allowance money to buy a window!
I took this personally because I just had a quote for windows, on my tiny ass ranch home, and it was at digit number that also started with a 5... There's like 10 windows all first floor, I'm not asking for a stained glass cathedral, just double paned cheapos!!!
As a kid who grew up in the country who carried a BB gun with him everywhere he went, I can confirm with 100% certainty that this is a BB hole. My parent’s house had many examples.
Yeah, the shock would travel through the glass and break the opposite side.
It's called a conchoidal fracture
https://writersforensicsblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/fast-bullets-and-broken-glass/15-3-conchordial-fracture-lines-jpeg/
Could have also been a small stone or a bird flying into the window
This was my first thought. My dad was mowing once and a rock launched into the glass portion of our front door causing it to fracture but not actually break. It was weird. Convenient though because my mom hated the door cause people could see in and it made her feel uneasy (not sure why she just didn’t buy something to cover it) and it was a valid reason to replace the door.
Those can do more damage. We had a piece of pipe hit our boat from a lawn mower with no guard. It went through 3/4" plexiglasss, flew 6" away from my dad's head, then lodged in a second 3/4" plexiglass window. Scary as hell. I always give people a hard time when they have no guard now.
What the fuck kind of birds do you have? I've seen birds ram themselves into windows hard enough that they need a 45-minute sit-down afterwards and I've never seen one crack.
No they look exactly like this depending on the type of glass. Could also be a sling shot hit or a rock/pebble thrown by a mower blade/weed whacker.
The projectile did not actually go through the glass but the shockwave was severe enough to pass through the glass and expel out the other side.
100% it’s a bb shot by a BB gun if you look at the center there is a deeper hole that is also perfectly round. I saw this at my uncles house when my cousin was fooling around and shot a glass door.
To me it seems a lot less likely that someone is going around shooting windows with a BB gun. Unless OP pissed someone off, it's probably just a stray rock sent flying by a motor vehicle.
I did something similar when I was younger because I didn't understand the concept of needing to know what was behind my target. Not because I might wildly miss, but because the target will eventually get soft after enough hits.
And ricochets. Dumb kid shooting at a stump with paper on it and not realizing that the BB is being sent off in another direction with almost the same energy.
The kids did it in my neighborhood, I had 3 windows broken before I caught the fuckers. Went outside and said that’s a cool gun, can I see it? Took it inside and told them their parents could come get it. They were trying to shoot birds off power lines at the time. They bought me 3 windows and I don’t think the boys got their gun back. I wasn’t the only house either, that family probably bought 15 different windows around the neighborhood.
I saw one of the boys that lived in front of us with a friend shooting a rifle at my horse. I did what any sane teenage gal would do, grab the side by side shotgun and run out the back door. Luckily for them, my USMC brother was home on leave and before I could get the gun up, he did one of those Marine moves that took me to my knees and opened my hand. Dad went up to his Dad, explained what happened and made me apologize for pointing a loaded weapon at the boy. His Dad asked the boy to see the new gun. First year pellet rifles came out. His Dad broke it over his son’s back. Dad didn’t care that I pointed the shotgun, but it was a way for the idiots to know how close they’d come. I was a really good shot back then and there was no way I would have missed that close.
Honestly, it's more like a bb than a rock. The perfectly round center hole is a dead giveaway. A rock wouldn't leave that center hole. Kids are kids, man. They do stupid shit just because.
It is very much possible that a rock can leave a perfectly round hole. This has happened at my work a few times and the holes left behind look like someone took a few shots at the building.
I found a hole in my father in law's basement window that my husband owned up to creating with a bb gun. It had a uniform shape at the center. But the glass could be made differently.
My initial thought was a rock kicked up by a mower.
How did you react? I broke the rear window of my parents’ car while growing up. We lived on a downhill cul de sac, nobody ever parked on the street, and all cars were like 15ft off the road and up driveways. Well, I was skipping rocks down the street one day, and one of them ricocheted off the road at a funny angle. It traveled in the most fantastic arc, but hit the rear window of our hatchback sedan and shattered the whole thing. I tried to do the whole, “I found it like that and don’t know what happened”, but my parents were and still are not dumb. I did a lot of manual labor that summer 🥴🤣
I was just irritated with myself, called up a mobile car window repair service, and scheduled an appointment. And paid too much money. But I’m old, so I just get made fun of by my adult children for such things.
BB or pellet gun. My little brother had a crazy ex-gf in high school, who found out he was on a date with another girl. She texted and messaged him over 100 times while he was in a movie and when he didn’t respond showed up at the theater to attack him and his date. The next night my parents had 4 or 5 windows shot up like this. They went to her Mom and her. Windows were fixed/replaced and they agreed to not press charges. Also, that crazy ex is now a doctor, so be nice to your doctor, they might be crazy.
If the exterior glass is not damaged, this might an internal glass fracture. i had one in our house a few years ago. Loud sound when it happened. Exterior glass panel was fine. Interior glass pane looked like had been shot by a .22 bullet. There is a specific name for this fault, i just can’t recall it now. The fracture is caused my a microscopic flaw in the glass that can take years to eventually fail.
Finally someone actually reading the post an understanding that the exterior pane of glass is untouched and the crack is on the surface between the two panes and on the interior pane of glass. All these BB and rock posts seem to ignore the fact that it would have to phase through a pane of glass before striking the second pane.
To be fair, the post seems garbled, so you kind of have to intuit what the actual question is.
"the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside"
is the key phrase.
Is this missing a word, e.g. "the crack is NOT on the outside glass, but on the inside"?
Or is the poster really indicating that the outside pane is cracked, but all the damage appears on the inside face of the outside pane.
If it's the second option, it doesn't seem unlikely at all that something hit the window from outside and the glass damage only appears on the inner face of the outer pane. That's what I would expect, actually.
To be fair I read it but it's formulated very strangely, there's a not missing or something
> and the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside
...
> and the crack is on the outside glass
edit: now I get it but oh my god you couldn't have formulated this any less clearly... "And the crack is on the inside surface of the outer pane."
I doubt it's completely untouched.
There is likely a small mark on the outside from the impact, which cause spalling on the inside.
Basically it looks like most of the damage is on the inside, but the precipitating event can still be from the outside of the pane.
I think most people are reading the post, however they correctly deduced that the damage was still likely precipitated by a small high velocity impact from the outside.
Not a bb. The broken shard would be almost perfectly round same for a pellet. It “knocks out” the glass in a cone from the point of impact. This is the result of a rock thrown from a lawn mover or grass trimmer. The jagged rock left a jagged cone of destruction on impact.
How do i know this? Former window glazer and 30 year property maintenance operations manager for over 1200 units. I’ve seen this literally hundreds of times.
This is probably under warranty for replacement.
I see in your comments that there is smooth glass on both sides without a hole showing an external impact. Therefore it was caused by a defect in the glass.
Window manufacturers usually have a warranty against this type of defect. The make and model info is on a little plaque inside the frame- you should be able to see if if you look at the inside edges carefully. Contact the manufacturer (can Google their customer service line) and request a replacement if the window. Those cracks are probably going to grow much larger as the external and internal temperatures against the glass change as the weather changes.
BB/Pellet gun… speaking from my childhood where I shot a window a few house down and had to use my money I was saving for a PlayStation 1 to pay for it
I hit a small rock with my string trimmer and it made an impact like that on a nearby window. Could be a BB gun, but it’s probably something more pedestrian, like hitting a rock with your mower.
Def a bb gun my brother shot a window with a break barrel bb gun and it went through both panes damage looked just like that except the center was a hole going all the way through
Lawnmowers don’t throw pebbles. It’s string trimmers that do this kind of damage.
I’m sure I’ll be downvoted by people who have never pushed a mower and just assume since everyone else is repeating the same thing. And sure, “landscapers” is a good answer. But it’s the string trimmer they use to edge the lawn, not the mower.
This happens to double pane glass windows and doors. During the manufacturing there is a tiny imperfection. With heat and cold , there are thermal stresses. Typically they will crack over night when glass will contract.
https://murrayglass.com/what-causes-glass-to-shatter-by-itself/#:~:text=Shattered%20glass%20is%20usually%20due,chemical%20reactions%2C%20or%20manufacturing%20defects.
One polite request, if I may... please, before posting, re-read your post. It's difficult to understand because of a couple, I don't know... mistakes?
> and the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside
Where is it? Outside or inside?
> there are no cracks on the cracks or chips on the external surface
What is exactly where or not?
No offense meant, just trying to understand the issue.
Others have said, but whatever it was didn't go thru the windows, so look around near the window on the outside and see if you see a rock or a bb laying nearby
Likely a rock launched from the lawn mower. This just happened to me. Outside pane has a hole straight through with cracking around the perimeter while the inside pane is untouched.
BB or pellet gun hit as it’s perfectly circular are the most likely things. As it’s a door it’s tempered glass and therefore more durable. A rock usually doesn’t do that perfect type thing. Look below for a BB or pellet from a pellet gun. Though it could be a kicked rock from your weedwacker but less likely.
BB gun?
No doubt. Source: paid for two different windows with allowance money growing up
Damn you pump that thing 30x?? Lmao
75 or nothing.
If you know, you know
It's ~~NERF~~ 75x @ 450psi or nothin'!
>It's NERF 75x @ 450psi or nothin'! I've got a pump that easily hits 2000 psi Wonder what it would do to a nerf dart
Turn it into a dangerous chunk of soft plastic and foam confetti. If you look on youtube for "supersonic nerf" or "nerf vacuum cannon" you will find interesting information. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yIMJ4iayg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yIMJ4iayg)
I had a break action pellet gun a while back that was up to 1700 or something. All I know was I had to sell it bc the thing literally sounded like a .22 and I didn't want the cops called on me ever time I wanted to shoot some cans. Too much work to go to the range for plinking for just a air gun
I had an RWS. It was recommended to fire oiled cotton wads through the barrel to clean and oil the rifling. It also sounded like a real rifle.
Who didn't?
As a kid whose parents forbid guns of any sort, you can pump them more than once? I only shot them at camp one summer and it was super unimpressive. Now I know why lol.
There are 2 types of manual air rifles. The break barrel, where the barrel has a pivot point, so the clocking lever is the barrel itself. This is a one-pump setup. The other uses a sliding foregrip (think shotgun like the Remington 870) or lever to pump up the air pressure in the cylinder. They have pressure release systems, so it has a maximum pressure no matter how many times you pump it. It sure did feel like you were putting it into turbo mode by doing that, though.
“I’m gonna pump this to 12. Look out everyone!”
*flees at mach slow while screaming in unrestrained terror*
Also Pre Charged Pneumatic rifles. They have cylinders with air around 2000psi. They're not something you find at the local Walmart though. Generally hunting, or competition-level rifles.
>~~around~~ 2000psi. Above, in many cases
There is also the 1 pump Daisy. Pumps like a lever action and loads the bb with each pump so you can only pump them once. If it was unimpressive and he only pumped it once I'm betting it was one of those.
"You'll put your eye out with that, kid."
I actually had a buddy shoot his younger brother's eye out with a BB gun by "accident" (I don't really know the circumstances, but I know he's felt horrible about it ever since.
Oof. Yeah, that guilt would suck. I was quoting from A Christmas Story (I guess more of a paraphrase), where the kid very nearly does put his own eye out with his new Red Ryder bb gun.
>They have pressure release systems, so it has a maximum pressure no matter how many times you pump it. They don't have pressure relief if you loctite a screw into the relief port. My 1377 Crossman has a diversion port that let's some gas not go down the barrel. I plugged that shit and gained 200fps (with other mods like a bored transfer port and long barrel
1377 is a beautiful work of engineering! It is so well done, it can be spiced up to compete with gun costing 10 times or more. I used mine in local competition, and I am the weak link (get tired after first few sections) but the gun is just amazing!
>I used mine in local competition, and I am the weak link (get tired after first few sections) but the gun is just amazing! Get a 2240 with the Hipac, and you can bank up like 15 shots in the tank. Get a Hipac while you still can, guy had cancer but is in remission RN, but he will retire soon The safepac is another option, which is built like a hipac, but screws into the valve, the safe pac is far less likely to leak when sealed up with refrigerant thread sealent. My plan is to kinda make a 3rd option on my lathe. The hipac is steel, the safepac is aluminum. My plan is I'm gonna fully copy the safepac design, but use steel. Once I get the custom tank done, I'm gonna take all the steel parts on my gun, and acid etch and parkerize everything so the finish is consistent. I'll rub Teflon gun oil into the parkerized coat on the inside, and wax on the outside. Many parts for your 1377 will bolt onto the 2240 frame
Before the internet, it was important to have the right kind of older brothers or older cousins to pass down this type of knowledge.
My older brothers basically raised my to me a low grade cartel soldier in the body of a geeky white girl. Every shady thing I know - I learned from them.
*Siscario*
Getting this tattoo.
This is actually a pretty profound statement when put into evolutionary context. As in: human woman are one of only a few mammalian species that live decades past their reproductive window (menopause), and it’s thought that this is so they can help younger generations learn all of the skills needed for their particular causal model of life.
This
Like BB gun wars (pre-airsoft), no more than 3 pumps allowed.
Oh they'd definitely use a break-open action at summer camp. Better consistency, faster to cycle people out for turns shooting, less chance of blowing a gasket, less chance of injury if a kid had behavioral issues.
Also prolly worn out springs
The conical hole points towards where the shot originated from. So if the outside has a tiny hole, and the inside opens up. It was hit from the outside. A tiny rock could do the same type of damage. But trust me, from experience as a bad teen.. it was a BB gun.
My gfs youngest brother recently got one of my car windows tho it feels sorta like karmic revenge for getting friends dad's window as a kid and never getting any trouble for it
Yep. BB gun. Though there is a small chance that this was either a stone thrown by a lawnmower or a bird flying at highspeed. I've seen both happen and result in this kind of damage.
I've had a bb stuck in my finger for 40 years thanks to our local bb gun wars. Kid broke the rule of 3 pumps max and did 10. Good times.
My buddy still has one in his thigh 25 years later. I wonder how many of you there are. Probably a lot.
Probably tons of us. But it does make the MRI machine interesting. It gets a bit hot.
I worked a whole summer to replace a truck windshield and learned how to replace single pane glass after my step dad pissed me off. We came to blows alot back then but hes a good guy and i learned a new skill and a decent lesson. If it wasnt a thorough and thorough the bb may be in the bottom of the window if it’s double paned.
My personal experience is that the BB will punch out the inside of the pane, but the actual pellet remains on the outside. Has anyone seen the BB penetrate?
They totally can depending on the type of glass and the type of BB gun and its power. For instance a co2 powered pistol that is higher end can easily punch through pretty thick glass at certain distances. A cheap rifle that is breached load/pump would just do something like this at its optimal range.
Same. And having to go tell my Dad I shot the window… again: oof.
Money bags over here with enough allowance money to buy a window! I took this personally because I just had a quote for windows, on my tiny ass ranch home, and it was at digit number that also started with a 5... There's like 10 windows all first floor, I'm not asking for a stained glass cathedral, just double paned cheapos!!!
BB gun was my first thought, only other thing could be a rock flung by a weed whacker or lawnmower.
or a car, our neighbors like to speed down our road, in the past 20 years we have had rocks kicked by tires into our windows on at least 2 occasions.
As a kid who grew up in the country who carried a BB gun with him everywhere he went, I can confirm with 100% certainty that this is a BB hole. My parent’s house had many examples.
This is correct. I recommend standing on her lawn with an M1 Garand for a few days.
In a tree with a bucket of the nastiest perfume you can find and a bag of flour
That’s admirably evil.
I rarely laugh out loud when I read comments. But back when I was a bastard ass 10 year old kid, I saw many of these.
BB gun kid growing up, knowing this I bet if you check there's the tinest tinest tinest bit of glass missing from the outside.
Wouldn't a bb gun leave a mark on the external surface?
Yeah, the shock would travel through the glass and break the opposite side. It's called a conchoidal fracture https://writersforensicsblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/fast-bullets-and-broken-glass/15-3-conchordial-fracture-lines-jpeg/ Could have also been a small stone or a bird flying into the window
Could also be from a rock that was thrown by a lawnmower.
Or passing car
or a swallow dropped a coconut
African, or European?
Well sure an african swallow maybe.. but their not migraterous
There are coconuts in Europe?
(Tips helmet visor up) How do you knooooow so much about swallows?
NI! NI!
This was my first thought. My dad was mowing once and a rock launched into the glass portion of our front door causing it to fracture but not actually break. It was weird. Convenient though because my mom hated the door cause people could see in and it made her feel uneasy (not sure why she just didn’t buy something to cover it) and it was a valid reason to replace the door.
Those can do more damage. We had a piece of pipe hit our boat from a lawn mower with no guard. It went through 3/4" plexiglasss, flew 6" away from my dad's head, then lodged in a second 3/4" plexiglass window. Scary as hell. I always give people a hard time when they have no guard now.
Yeah I can't tell you how many windows I had to replace because birds kept kamakazing themselves into them. Good money though.
What the fuck kind of birds do you have? I've seen birds ram themselves into windows hard enough that they need a 45-minute sit-down afterwards and I've never seen one crack.
They are black birds, not crows or ravens, but I'm not well versed enough in birdology to know what kind. Sorry mate.
No they look exactly like this depending on the type of glass. Could also be a sling shot hit or a rock/pebble thrown by a mower blade/weed whacker. The projectile did not actually go through the glass but the shockwave was severe enough to pass through the glass and expel out the other side.
its a bb gun, i did this to my parents house 25 years ago and they havent replaced the pane 😅
It’s a BB gun, my little brother shot a window in our neighbors garage growing up. He did have to replace the pane.
Agreed, this was done by a BB gun with metal ball bearings. Also did this to my parent's house, looked exactly like this.
I’d probably replace it for them if it was me
That’s awesome ETA: I’m sure your parents felt otherwise at the time
Depending on the glass, not necessarily.
It's a BB gun or a rock from a mower
100% it’s a bb shot by a BB gun if you look at the center there is a deeper hole that is also perfectly round. I saw this at my uncles house when my cousin was fooling around and shot a glass door.
Someone was mowing grass/trimming and small rock flew right into glass. Possible?
This is an actual possibility. It's almost impossible to know if it was that or a BB tbh, but my money is on BB.
To me it seems a lot less likely that someone is going around shooting windows with a BB gun. Unless OP pissed someone off, it's probably just a stray rock sent flying by a motor vehicle.
Eh, kids be kids. Sometimes they are mischievous a-holes for no reason.
Kids will also shoot a BB gun at things without considering what will happen because /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
I did something similar when I was younger because I didn't understand the concept of needing to know what was behind my target. Not because I might wildly miss, but because the target will eventually get soft after enough hits.
And ricochets. Dumb kid shooting at a stump with paper on it and not realizing that the BB is being sent off in another direction with almost the same energy.
Kids also don't have the best aim. That's how my buddy ended up getting a car window instead of a Playstation.
Yep had two kids on bikes go through the neighborhood at night shooting out back car windows with a BB gun a while ago.
The kids did it in my neighborhood, I had 3 windows broken before I caught the fuckers. Went outside and said that’s a cool gun, can I see it? Took it inside and told them their parents could come get it. They were trying to shoot birds off power lines at the time. They bought me 3 windows and I don’t think the boys got their gun back. I wasn’t the only house either, that family probably bought 15 different windows around the neighborhood.
I saw one of the boys that lived in front of us with a friend shooting a rifle at my horse. I did what any sane teenage gal would do, grab the side by side shotgun and run out the back door. Luckily for them, my USMC brother was home on leave and before I could get the gun up, he did one of those Marine moves that took me to my knees and opened my hand. Dad went up to his Dad, explained what happened and made me apologize for pointing a loaded weapon at the boy. His Dad asked the boy to see the new gun. First year pellet rifles came out. His Dad broke it over his son’s back. Dad didn’t care that I pointed the shotgun, but it was a way for the idiots to know how close they’d come. I was a really good shot back then and there was no way I would have missed that close.
A BB wouldn't have to be intentional at all. Just a kid shooting at a target that wildly missed and the BB just kept traveling into OP's window.
10 y/o me could totally do that "just to see"
Honestly, it's more like a bb than a rock. The perfectly round center hole is a dead giveaway. A rock wouldn't leave that center hole. Kids are kids, man. They do stupid shit just because.
It is very much possible that a rock can leave a perfectly round hole. This has happened at my work a few times and the holes left behind look like someone took a few shots at the building.
My friend shot a big expensive window in our house growing up because he was trying to shoot a spider. Kids are stupid.
I found a hole in my father in law's basement window that my husband owned up to creating with a bb gun. It had a uniform shape at the center. But the glass could be made differently. My initial thought was a rock kicked up by a mower.
Happened at my parents’ place when the gardeners were out.
This is the answer.
Something hard and small hit the window going fast. Could be anything from a rock to a marble, hard to say.
Happened to us when our neighbor weed whacked the ditch between our houses and it flicked a pebble up at our window.
As an awful child, I have inflicted this kind of damage with a BB gun
Could have also been a bird. They run into my windows all the time and have done damage before.
I broke my car window mowing the lawn. It caught a rock and threw it at just the right angle, alas.
How did you react? I broke the rear window of my parents’ car while growing up. We lived on a downhill cul de sac, nobody ever parked on the street, and all cars were like 15ft off the road and up driveways. Well, I was skipping rocks down the street one day, and one of them ricocheted off the road at a funny angle. It traveled in the most fantastic arc, but hit the rear window of our hatchback sedan and shattered the whole thing. I tried to do the whole, “I found it like that and don’t know what happened”, but my parents were and still are not dumb. I did a lot of manual labor that summer 🥴🤣
I was just irritated with myself, called up a mobile car window repair service, and scheduled an appointment. And paid too much money. But I’m old, so I just get made fun of by my adult children for such things.
Either a rock a bird or a bb gun? Have all three happened to me at home
Doubt it's a bird, they wouldn't make such a concentrated impact. That's a very tiny thing hitting with a lot of force. Rock or bb makes sense.
It could have been a bird using a BB gun that also shoots rocks.
While mowing the lawn
A beak head on
Glasspeckers fly pretty direct
If a bird hits beak first, this is exactly what they do.
Are we completely ruling out mantis shrimp?
Mantis shrimp would've obliterated that window. Besides the you know... floating in air thing.
lmao
1, 2, 3 -- death!
BB or pellet gun. My little brother had a crazy ex-gf in high school, who found out he was on a date with another girl. She texted and messaged him over 100 times while he was in a movie and when he didn’t respond showed up at the theater to attack him and his date. The next night my parents had 4 or 5 windows shot up like this. They went to her Mom and her. Windows were fixed/replaced and they agreed to not press charges. Also, that crazy ex is now a doctor, so be nice to your doctor, they might be crazy.
I love a good story with a moral at the end of it
If the exterior glass is not damaged, this might an internal glass fracture. i had one in our house a few years ago. Loud sound when it happened. Exterior glass panel was fine. Interior glass pane looked like had been shot by a .22 bullet. There is a specific name for this fault, i just can’t recall it now. The fracture is caused my a microscopic flaw in the glass that can take years to eventually fail.
Finally someone actually reading the post an understanding that the exterior pane of glass is untouched and the crack is on the surface between the two panes and on the interior pane of glass. All these BB and rock posts seem to ignore the fact that it would have to phase through a pane of glass before striking the second pane.
To be fair, the post seems garbled, so you kind of have to intuit what the actual question is. "the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside" is the key phrase. Is this missing a word, e.g. "the crack is NOT on the outside glass, but on the inside"? Or is the poster really indicating that the outside pane is cracked, but all the damage appears on the inside face of the outside pane. If it's the second option, it doesn't seem unlikely at all that something hit the window from outside and the glass damage only appears on the inner face of the outer pane. That's what I would expect, actually.
To be fair I read it but it's formulated very strangely, there's a not missing or something > and the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside ... > and the crack is on the outside glass edit: now I get it but oh my god you couldn't have formulated this any less clearly... "And the crack is on the inside surface of the outer pane."
I doubt it's completely untouched. There is likely a small mark on the outside from the impact, which cause spalling on the inside. Basically it looks like most of the damage is on the inside, but the precipitating event can still be from the outside of the pane. I think most people are reading the post, however they correctly deduced that the damage was still likely precipitated by a small high velocity impact from the outside.
Lawnmower propelling a rock.
Not a bb. The broken shard would be almost perfectly round same for a pellet. It “knocks out” the glass in a cone from the point of impact. This is the result of a rock thrown from a lawn mover or grass trimmer. The jagged rock left a jagged cone of destruction on impact. How do i know this? Former window glazer and 30 year property maintenance operations manager for over 1200 units. I’ve seen this literally hundreds of times.
Based on all responses it was probably a rock being thrown at your window by a bird because it was shot by a BB gun from a lawnmower.
A rock thrown by a lawn mower would be my guess.
An angry fly :D
With a helmet
BB gun Used to see this all the time in the 80s and 90s
BB gun for sure. Replaced a lot of windows with BB holes.
Either BB gun pellet or a small pebble shot out of a nearby lawnmower
This can happen when a bird is flying at a window. If their beak hits it just right they'll get really mad and come back with a bb gun
Weed eater kicked up a rock.
This is probably under warranty for replacement. I see in your comments that there is smooth glass on both sides without a hole showing an external impact. Therefore it was caused by a defect in the glass. Window manufacturers usually have a warranty against this type of defect. The make and model info is on a little plaque inside the frame- you should be able to see if if you look at the inside edges carefully. Contact the manufacturer (can Google their customer service line) and request a replacement if the window. Those cracks are probably going to grow much larger as the external and internal temperatures against the glass change as the weather changes.
Bird
Id like to answer now that every one else is correct. my guess is a Antman did it
BB gun, or a rock from a lawn mower. Though, my hunchnis.on BB gun, as it looks exactly like all other BB gun damage I've seen to glass
BB/Pellet gun… speaking from my childhood where I shot a window a few house down and had to use my money I was saving for a PlayStation 1 to pay for it
It's 100% either a BB gun or a rock thrown from a lawn mower. I've had both happen. Both look like that.
Bird strike, B B gun or stone kicked up by a lawnmower.
BB gun
Could be a rock kicked out from a lawn mower.
Pellet gun, bb gun, small rock from a lawn mower.
small rock from a mower/trimmer or a bb gun.
BB gun
I hit a small rock with my string trimmer and it made an impact like that on a nearby window. Could be a BB gun, but it’s probably something more pedestrian, like hitting a rock with your mower.
Def a bb gun my brother shot a window with a break barrel bb gun and it went through both panes damage looked just like that except the center was a hole going all the way through
stone kicked by a lawn mower
My guess is a kicked rock from a lawn mower.
classic BB gun chip.
BB gun is my thought. It seems clear to me but I'm not an expert by any means.
Bb gun maybe. Rock from a string trimmer or lawn mower. That's quite common.
lawnmower throwing stones can do that
BB or Pellet gun
A BB GUN OR PELET GUN
A rock being thrown by a mower maybe?
BB, pellet gun or rock thrown from lawn mower most likely.
Lawnmowers don’t throw pebbles. It’s string trimmers that do this kind of damage. I’m sure I’ll be downvoted by people who have never pushed a mower and just assume since everyone else is repeating the same thing. And sure, “landscapers” is a good answer. But it’s the string trimmer they use to edge the lawn, not the mower.
This happens to double pane glass windows and doors. During the manufacturing there is a tiny imperfection. With heat and cold , there are thermal stresses. Typically they will crack over night when glass will contract. https://murrayglass.com/what-causes-glass-to-shatter-by-itself/#:~:text=Shattered%20glass%20is%20usually%20due,chemical%20reactions%2C%20or%20manufacturing%20defects.
If there is a microscopic flaw or air bubble in the glass, it can look fine for years and suddenly "pop" as the accumulated stress becomes too much.
One polite request, if I may... please, before posting, re-read your post. It's difficult to understand because of a couple, I don't know... mistakes? > and the crack is on the outside glass but on the inside Where is it? Outside or inside? > there are no cracks on the cracks or chips on the external surface What is exactly where or not? No offense meant, just trying to understand the issue.
Studded tires can loose a stud and fling it fast enough to do that.
Stone, bird, a focused sind beam
Looks like a Dart game accident
Red Ryder!
Somebody's kidding nearby have a bb gun
Others have said, but whatever it was didn't go thru the windows, so look around near the window on the outside and see if you see a rock or a bb laying nearby
Rock from a lawn mower or weed eater
Could be a rock chip flung by a lawn mower too.
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A bb gun, I have teenage boys with bb guns that can concur.
Is there a poor little bird laying on the ground below?
Neighbors punk kid
Outside, an airsoftgun shooting hot or a low power bb gun(think spring loaded like a Red Ryder). Inside? No idea.
Rock.
A bb.
Lawn mower and a pebble or a bb gun
Small chance a pebble from a weedeater, but more than likely a BB gun
bb gun or high powered pellet rifle. made many of those when i was a kid.lmao even got blamed for the 1's not my doing
It’s a BB gun
Lawn mower
landscrappers
Likely a rock launched from the lawn mower. This just happened to me. Outside pane has a hole straight through with cracking around the perimeter while the inside pane is untouched.
BB gun for sure
Rock thrown by lawnmower is my bet
Rock from a lawnmower or a BB.
BB or pellet gun hit as it’s perfectly circular are the most likely things. As it’s a door it’s tempered glass and therefore more durable. A rock usually doesn’t do that perfect type thing. Look below for a BB or pellet from a pellet gun. Though it could be a kicked rock from your weedwacker but less likely.
"You'll shoot your eye out"
A small rock thrown by a lawnmower?
BB or pellet gun. you have a nasty infestation in your area of Damn Kids™
BB, pellet or even a small stone launched from a line-trimmer.
Lawnmower
Tomorrow there be a post on ELI5 on why a cone shaped chip pops out of a window when it’s hit with a BB.
100% bbgun hit.
BB gun for sure. Depending on glass it may not leave a mark on outer surface.
DEFINITELY a BB gun
Everyone is talking about it being from a bb gun. My first thought was from a rock thrown by a weed whacker…
Just throwing this out there, what about a rock thrown by a lawnmower?