[Alpo]

Back in September I had a post about stopping an oncoming car using a 9 mm pistol. Everyone convinced me that the people in the TV show was doing it right - shooting through the windshield at the driver. Doing it like I was thinking - shooting through the grill at the engine - would not work.

Now I got another scenario. Different TV series.

Instead of oncoming car, he's passing. You're standing at the side of the road and he's coming by from your right to your left. You have a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot. Where would you shoot?

And the TV show he shot the driver's window and the driver. As I watched it I thought he would have done better shooting the front tire. If you take out a tire, it's going to slow him down trying to drive on a flat. And if you take out the front tire it's going to screw up the steering, which might cause him to go off the road entirely.

How would y'all do it? 12 gauge, double aught buck, one shot as he's going by. Going by right to left, so the driver side is facing you as he crosses.

 

[Grousesassin]

I'm gonna go with the window. depending vehicle type and speed. shooting out the front tire might send him into you if he rolls. Shooting the window if it didn't kill him may cause him to swerve away trying to avoid a second shot. I'm probably wrong but that's my theory.

 

[Pawpaw40]

I'm not going to shoot at him. My life is not in imminent danger, it would be illegal to shoot him unless he is leaving with my property at night in Texas. I am not at all sure I would shoot him even then.

 

[Virginia Patriot]

I would have to have a darn good and justifiable reason to shoot. If it was all said and done, I would shoot the window, that way you would have the pellets and the glass hitting the bad guy...JM2C

 

[chaswea]

I'm not sure a 9mm will penetrate a front windshield.

 

[ysacres]

Humm.....If the driver did something bad enough to need stopped by deadly force, then I would shoot for the window, a tire shot might not stop the vehicle for a few miles, He could get away and more innocent victims might die.

 

[Hawg]

I not sure a 9mm will penetrate a front windshield.

A .22 will penetrate a front windshield. Shooting the front tire isn't going to do squat except flatten the tire. If a car doesn't have power steering and the driver doesn't have a good grip on the steering wheel he might lose control. A car with power steering having a blowout at high speed is easy to control. I would go with the drivers window.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.

 

[joe45c]

I'd probably miss no matter where i'd try to shoot at him. I can never hit a moving target. A whole bunch of still live deer can attest to that.

 

[tango1niner]

I would think buckshot pellets having no point (think broad frontal area), being made of lead, and substantially less velocity stand a good possibility of flattening and bouncing off a properly inflated tire. The tire has a small sidewall area exposed and the rim is likely steel or possibly aluminum.

In any case, I'm going for the window, a face full of tempered glass should get a reaction...

 

[Pyrite]

RPG for politician's car.

 

[zant]

Thermite grenade on roof over driver as he goes by...

 

[Hawg]

I would think buckshot pellets having no point (think broad frontal area), being made of lead, and substantially less velocity stand a good possibility of flattening and bouncing off a properly inflated tire. The tire has a small sidewall area exposed and the rim is likely steel or possibly aluminum.

In any case, I'm going for the window, a face full of tempered glass should get a reaction...

They might bounce off the tread but not the sidewall.

 

[BlackEagle]

Go for the window. Anything else has too many problems.

 

[tango1niner]

They might bounce off the tread but not the sidewall.

I'm not from Missouri but you're going to have to show me to prove it...

 

[Hawg]

I'm not from Missouri but you're going to have to show me to prove it...

bring your car down here and I will.

 

[tango1niner]

bring your car down here and I will.

Yours is closer...

 

[Pyrite]

Nothing stops a car like an oncoming Peterbilt.

👍

 

[Hawg]

Yours is closer...

I'm not blowing holes in my own tires. You can skip ahead to about 4:17. There's another video of a .22 LR out of a pistol going in the sidewall and coming out through a steel belted tread.

 

[tango1niner]

Those guys were shooting slugs not buckshot. Lots of mass with the slugs.

Same thing with the oncoming Peterbilt, it's all about mass...