# How do you shoot highway signs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 2, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442 "2013-07-02T14:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/1 "2013-07-02T14:26:29Z")
In many rural areas (and not a few non-rural areas) you see highway signs with a bunch of bullet holes in them. Do people shoot them from a moving vehicle or stop, get out, and use them as target practice? Feel free to share how it’s done (and I realize the answer could be ‘both’ - perhaps this should have been in IMHO.) ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/2 "2013-07-02T15:18:34Z")
A complete guess is that it would be more of a challenge shooting from a moving vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/3 "2013-07-02T15:23:55Z")
In the rural areas, they’re a convenient target to ‘check your sights/scope’. 😉 As for non-rural areas, my WAG is that it’s just ‘hooligans’. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/4 "2013-07-02T15:30:50Z")
Missed the ‘edit’ window. “Hey Clem, pull over here (about a 100 yards from a ‘deer crossing’ sign) I wanna check my scope.” Get out, take a rest thru the open window of the open door, take a couple shots, get back in, check the ‘target’ as you drive by. At least, that’s how _we_ did it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/5 "2013-07-02T16:12:44Z")
We never stopped, just plugged away while driving. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/6 "2013-07-02T16:47:55Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > We never stopped, just plugged away while driving. Hopefully it was the passenger shooting, not the driver, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/7 "2013-07-02T16:51:10Z")
It’s basically the grown-up version of Mailbox Baseball. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/8 "2013-07-02T16:56:04Z")
We’d bait them first, which is why they called it a feeder road. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/9 "2013-07-02T17:03:36Z")
You get out about a hundred yards from the sign and aim for the O in the word STOP. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/10 "2013-07-02T17:08:08Z")
No one ever seems to bother to check what’s downrange of the sign. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/11 "2013-07-02T17:13:29Z")
A whole bunch of nothing is down range of the ones I’ve allegedly shot at. Just miles and miles of Texas. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/12 "2013-07-02T18:11:23Z")
I suspect it’s done from the passenger side of moving vehicles. Has to be very loud inside the vehicle. I’ve tried to pay attention and it does seem like they check what’s downrange of the signs around here in Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/13 "2013-07-03T17:38:19Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > No one ever seems to bother to check what’s downrange of the sign. Speak for yourself. I _ **ALWAYS** _ ‘check downrange’. 🆒 > [@silenus](#): > > A whole bunch of nothing is down range of the ones I’ve allegedly shot at. Just miles and miles of Texas. Copy _ **that** _. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/14 "2013-07-03T17:45:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A whole bunch of nothing is down range of the ones I’ve allegedly shot at. Just miles and miles of Texas. Don’t miss with Texas. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/15 "2013-07-05T03:53:08Z")
Dunno about other road signs, but, when I lived near Bullard, TX, it was out in the deep, deep woods, right off of a highway. A small road, paved, had some sign on it with bullet holes in it. Along came a couple of the locals, one whipped out a 44 magnum, and started blasting the sign. Whole point being, the shots need not be from a moving vehicle, esp. in a more remote area. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/16 "2013-07-05T04:44:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A whole bunch of nothing is down range of the ones I’ve allegedly shot at. Just miles and miles of Texas. And other cars. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/17 "2013-07-05T04:50:21Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > You get out about a hundred yards from the sign and aim for the O in the word STOP. Stop signs? [You’re shooting the wrong signs.](http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00007pUxTEMxTB0/s/750/750/DeerSignH.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/18 "2013-07-05T06:30:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Stop signs? [You’re shooting the wrong signs.](http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00007pUxTEMxTB0/s/750/750/DeerSignH.jpg) See post #4. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-shoot-highway-signs/662442/19 "2013-07-08T16:00:11Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > Hopefully it was the passenger shooting, not the driver, right? 😉 It would be wrong to assume that. 😃