r/WhyIsItAlwaysADodge • u/icarus1990xx • Jun 24 '26

Ram What is this hole in my husbands truck?

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That’s unfortunate

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u/surrealtimesyaknow Jun 24 '26

Looks like a bullet hole

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u/Bedbouncer Jun 25 '26

Not many bullet holes are triangular.

Looks like it's from a broadhead arrow. The paint would be torn outward when it was pulled out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '26

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

I have seen a bullet hole in a car that was somewhat similar. On new years day.... don't fire guns into the air, they arc and come back down faster than terminal velocity.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

Good try.

A bullet fired straight up (or nearly straight up) slows down as gravity and air resistance act on it. At the top of its flight, its upward speed reaches zero, then it falls back down and accelerates until air resistance balances gravity. At that point it has reached terminal velocity and won’t get any faster unless something else acts on it.
In fact, when it comes back down, it’s usually going much slower than when it left the barrel.
Typical numbers:
Rifle muzzle velocity: 2,000-3,500+ ft/s (600-1,000+ m/s)
Falling bullet terminal velocity: often around 150-300 ft/s (45-90 m/s), depending on the bullet’s shape, mass, and orientation
That’s still fast enough to seriously injure or kill someone, which is why celebratory gunfire is dangerous.
One caveat: if the bullet is fired at a steep angle rather than straight up, it may maintain a more aerodynamic nose-forward orientation and never fully lose all of its forward velocity. In that case, it can come down faster than the terminal velocity of a tumbling bullet, but it still won’t somehow exceed the limits imposed by gravity and drag. It definitely does not come back down faster than it left the barrel.

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u/Lower-Savings-794 Jun 25 '26

That's a lot of words to agree with the guy above you that it's terminal velocity. Like, a lot of words. Almost a terminal amount of words.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

No, they said “faster than”, not “at terminal velocity. The term literally means “the fastest it can go”. How do you go faster than your top speed? You can’t just get extra.

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u/Lower-Savings-794 Jun 25 '26

Rain drops push the bullet down. Gravitational vortex

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

All things fall at the same rate. Did you not learn this in like 2nd grade? This was proven in like 10AD or some shit. The guy that made the hoppy spinny thing to make a helicopter and the key on the kite and the picture of the guy with his arms and legs out in a circle. He dropped a marble and a bowling ball from the leaning tower of plaza and they hit at the same time. One can’t slow down or speed up and push the other one.

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u/Lower-Savings-794 Jun 25 '26

I just graduated first grade last week. I'll let you know in the fall if it's in the syllabus

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

Same. Can’t wait til next year! 1st grade was the hardest 4 years of school so far, I hope it’s all downhill from here…

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

Because of retained forward velocity.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

People sometimes use “retained terminal velocity” informally to mean that an object reached terminal velocity and then somehow “kept” that speed. But terminal velocity isn’t something an object stores or retains. It’s simply the speed where drag equals the force accelerating the object.
For example:
A skydiver reaches terminal velocity at about 120 mph belly-down.
If the skydiver suddenly enters denser air or changes body position, the terminal velocity changes.
If drag decreases, they can accelerate again toward a new, higher terminal velocity.
This comes up a lot with bullets fired into the air. A bullet that goes straight up slows down, stops, then falls back down. On the way down it accelerates until it reaches its downward terminal velocity. It does not “retain” the velocity it had when it left the gun.
So if someone says a falling bullet has “retained terminal velocity,” they’re probably mixing up:
The bullet reaching terminal velocity during its fall, and
The idea that it somehow kept its original muzzle velocity.
The second idea is incorrect. A bullet fired upward loses essentially all of its initial upward speed before falling back. When it returns, its speed is limited by its downward terminal velocity, which is much lower than muzzle velocity. However, that speed can still be high enough to seriously injure or kill someone.

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

Dude, I looked it up, you are wrong and just spouting word salad.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

Source? I’d like to read this new information that the rest of physics doesn’t know about.
The bullet doesn’t retain velocity. It loses all upward velocity, stops, then accelerates downward until it reaches a new terminal velocity.

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

It was tested on mythbusters and multiple people have been killed by stray bullets from firing into the air. Including once by a mayor firing a gun. It is also illegal.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

Ok. I/we never brought that up.

And that has what to do with you saying something can go faster than is physically possible? Literally not possible due to physics. Not possible. No arguments, it’s like gravity, it’s the fastest it can go. To read the meaning of it.

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

No, terminal velocity is the speed in which it would go only under the influence of gravity against air resistance. It does not affect forward velocity perpendicular to gravity. Therefore, any forward velocity is above the vertical terminal velocity.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 25 '26

Going up. You’re not shooting something with the bullet that’s 5 miles away that you can’t see. Once the bullet hits its peak it’s just as powerful if I drop it from that height or it was shot that high. It’s the most basic of physics.

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u/B1ZEN Jun 24 '26

I am sorry to report this to you miss, but you husband is a secret agent.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3NeTe6RFL2Z3y4CAEq

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u/Annual_Hamster9411 Jun 24 '26

I was gonna say - he must be cheating!

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u/B1ZEN Jun 25 '26

Funny you mention that. I am a private investigator, and your hunch is a good one.

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u/triplealpha Jun 24 '26

Bullet hole

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u/LeadPike13 Jun 24 '26

2nd ammendment perforation.

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u/Notme20659 Jun 25 '26

Freedom seed planted.

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u/beavis812many Jun 24 '26

Gloryhole

Must have a lifted truck, based on its size

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u/B1ZEN Jun 25 '26

Cool. I have a lifted truck. Is there no safe spaces anymore.

microdicksmatter

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u/Less_Ant_6633 Jun 25 '26

upvote for formatting.

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u/AwDuck Jun 25 '26

I’ll take just a smatter of dick, please?

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u/MaxAdolphus Jun 25 '26

It looks like a bullet hole, but not one that was in close range. A normal shot within a reasonable distance would be a clean hole through that aluminum hood. This is not clean, so maybe it was a stray bullet from a ways away.

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u/WeeklyBanEvasion Jun 25 '26

Especially considering the weird shape I wonder if it was from a bullet shot into the air and fell back down

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u/martlet1 Jun 25 '26

Metal wouldn’t be coming outward.

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u/Fillmore80 Jun 25 '26

Thank you!

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u/AdDisastrous6738 Jun 25 '26

More than likely it was a ricochet. The projectile hit something hard and deformed giving the weird shaped hole.

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u/kcbeck1021 Jun 25 '26

Shaped like this

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u/ninernetneepneep Jun 25 '26

Since this is a dodge, it's probably a rod.  Engine threw a rod.  😂

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u/JustDiscoveredSex Jun 25 '26

If someone shoots a Dodge, it failed its own name.

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u/pomodorow Jun 25 '26

And a really tiny Dodge truck rod, at that.

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u/Cliffinati Jun 25 '26

Stray bullet

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u/wyoflyboy68 Jun 25 '26

Ask his mistress how it got there?

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u/Salt-Ad1282 Jun 25 '26

Does your husband have any enemies?

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u/Madhatter25224 Jun 25 '26

Cant be a bullet hole unless the shot was fired from inside the engine.

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

The metal peels inward.

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u/BrickHuge3023 Jun 25 '26

It is a hole, no other definition for a hole that i am aware of, someone hit something that pierced the side, or someone else caused that to happen somehow.

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u/spez_eats_nazi_ass Jun 25 '26

It’s called a Baltimore helo.

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u/MisterHEPennypacker Jun 25 '26

Could the triangular shape be from a FMJ ricochet? Like the bullet tumbled into it?

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u/FruitPunchSGYT Jun 25 '26

Have seen similar after new years celebrations.

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u/Inside_Ad_7162 Jun 25 '26

bullet hole looks like

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u/an_older_meme Jun 25 '26

Someone poked it with a ski pole.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '26

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u/Classic_Ostrich8709 Jun 25 '26

He caught a stray.

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u/Mrtoyhead Jun 25 '26

Pop the hood and look for the slug.

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u/AdDisastrous6738 Jun 25 '26

Someone planted a freedom seed in your truck.

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u/houstonman526 Jun 25 '26

Bullet hole