somone shot my house

It is deer season here in WI. I have a house at my truck yard that employees live in. Tracy, our billing manager, who lives in the lower level sent me an email with pics of a hole in the wall going into the rear entryway. Definitely a bullet hole. Good thing my boys did not fire any shots today. Do u think she will be mad if I tell her to just hang a picture over the hole in the wall? I would like to just have a boring day for once.

To be about as careful as you can, I would post signs that indicated occupied dwellings are in this vicinity, do not shoot in their direction. I have no idea how effective it would be, but the occupant needs to be reassured you are making an effort. If you have no control of the property adjacent to yours, contacting the property owner and informing them of the incident is also prudent. The county clerk (or a related office) has ownership records that are current, and public domain. Jim

$4.00 can of spray foam ,and a $5-00 can of spray paint, and you will be done in time for desert

That is why I am glad we do not have rifle season in Iowa.

A lot of states say you can't be hunting within a certain distance of any occupied building or residence.

It was operator error. I hear you can't fix stupid, even with duct tape. Rifle is not the problem. My house & I have both been hit with shotguns.

Similar to police departments, can you or the tenant insert a dowel or rod thru the line of holes to determine which direction the bullet came from?

(quoted from post at 20:29:28 11/26/20) Similar to police departments, can you or the tenant insert a dowel or rod thru the line of holes to determine which direction the bullet came from?

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Just looking thru the holes from inside will show you where it came from.

Ah, but we do have! Since 2017 you're allowed to used straight wall cartridges in a rifle, that were legal to use in a pistol or revolver. That goes clear up to a 45-70. The maximum length is 1.800, but the .375 Winchester, .444 Marlin, and 45'70 Winchester were grandfathered in. They also have to be expanding tip of some kind, so the bullet just doesn't go on through. There's some mighty potent revolver cartridges included, like the .500 Smith and Wesson. And, like has been mentioned, 99% of the time it's operator error when something bad happens and not the gun.
As for the shotguns being safer, those deer slugs have a nasty habit of richoceting off the ground and going airborn again. I've hunkered down in a ditch more than once hearing a slug go whistling over my head. Stay safe my friends. Oh, and I don't hunt anymore either.

If it had hit someone in the house I donot think spray foam in the hole would work

Pistols are even made that are chambered in 45
-70.

Wouldn't be a big deal if it was in a lot of cities pretty common thing to happen.And even out in the country not necessarily a hunter that fired the shot, do the renters have any problems with anyone?

When I was growing up we used to sit out at night and watch tracer bullets going overhead. There was a two story house between us and the source so didn't worry about getting hit but somehow one bullet did hit our house.

According to animal related shows I've watched a Game Warden or animal conservation officer would be very interested in whom pulled the trigger to create that hole. IIRC hunter is not supposed to fire within 300 ft of another person's residence

One day I was out driving in a wooded area popular with hunters. The land owner had posted a professional sign near the fence, adjacent to the road, of roughly 6x8' dimensions cautioning hunters that they would "appreciate it" if they would hunt elsewhere. They remarked that they live in the immediate area and don't want to get accidentally shot. Scary!

Happens here fairly often. We get a lot of out of area hunters who don't know where the houses are, and some locals who don't care. Police aren't much help. Neighbours had someone dump a mag at a deer in their front yard, rounds flew past their house into the subdivision behind them. Went out to confront idiot who took off. Police came and collected the brass, took statement, went to registered owners house next day. Helpfully he had "loaned his truck and gun to a friend" when the incident occurred but couldn't remember who that was as it was yesterday.

They then wonder why ground gets posted.

Regulations about distance from occupied buildings are irrelevant in this case. Staying 300 feet or even 1000 feet from an occupied building is not much help when the bullets have a range of over 1 mile.

Just pick up a box of .22 long rifle cartridges. It usually says right on he box "caution, range 1 mile." If that little rim fire shell has that much range, how far do you think a 45-70 or a .44 magnum will go? I'd say well over 300 feet!

Responsible hunters do not shoot in the direction of homes. That is a pretty simple concept. Hunters that do shoot towards homes should have their hunting privileges removed and their guns confiscated.

A responsible hunter knows what he is shooting at. He does not take the shot unless he knows he will hit his target. Normally, one shot is one kill - for a responsible hunter.

I totally agree with you.

My dad tought me early on to watch your shot as it can go a long way.

Two "bullets hit house" stories":

ONE: I bought an acreage from a young guy who had a reputation of being a nasty hot-head. A couple of months after I moved in I had the back window of my '57 Chevy coupe shot out. I assumed it was done by someone with a grudge against the former homeowner. Later, I found .22 slugs in two places in my house siding, apparently from drive-bys. Somebody hated that guy!

TWO: Several years ago I got a call from my daughter saying a bullet had just come through a screen, went across the dining room a couple of feet from where she was sitting with my then-infant granddaughter, and lodged in the wall on the other side. She called the police, who arrived and observed a guy standing in his yard a block away, staring in my daughter's direction. It turns out he had been messing with a hunting rifle in his house when it went off. He paid for damage to my daughter's house and was charged with a misdemeanor and a felony. I don't know how the case ever ended up.

Even with the SLUG guns and SOME of the rifled slugs of today will reach WAY out there . Monday starts our gun season . Myself i prefer to do my shooting from a high point and shoot down into a valley because i know what i shoot will go alot feather then 300 feet as you can pull more then 300 Yds out of that slug as i have made shots out that far . Being the OLD FART of the group i get to do the setting and watching . First time i used this slug i took a deer on a dead run WAY out there on the second shot , first shot was in attempt to turn the five deer breaking out of the woods as we had no one posted where they were heading . We had about 6-8 inches of snow on the ground and when i fired the first round tryen to place the shot inft. of the deer i saw the splash and pulled up on the second one and took the shot and dropped it . Well since our pushers drove everything out of that small patch of woods everybody came up to see what i had tagged . My buddy got there and said where did you shoot from and i told him way back by the tank battery and i get NO WAY , yep told him you will find two bolack shell casings on the ground on the east side of the tank battery So he walked back and found the two shell casing and proceeded to pace it off with his long legs and came up with 279 paces . Next deer the next year was 305 paces and a 287 . did get one in close at 205 , missed the one last year he was a sneeky one , he never moved till after the one guy driving had walked within inches of where he was layen and went out the opsit and i did not see it till it was heading up the hill away from where i was looking .