I remember the local "big Kid" (a thirteen or fourteen year old) bragging to us (10 year olds) that the rifle slung over his shoulder could penetrate a dustbin and come out the
other side and this whilst stood outside the local newsagent's , and in the days of solid galvanized steel dustbins that were built to withstand being bounced on the edge of the dustcart when being emptied by the binman.
When asked to prove it he said he was short of ammunition and was saving his last few pellets for rabbits, no doubt to be shot at 100 yds.
This was in the mid-1960s