I used to do this a lot when i was little. We got a 37" Zenith or whatever that quit working so I took it in the back yard. The glass on that thing was so thick I couldn't break it with bats, bricks, golf clubs or whatever I could find, granted I was only 12 at the time. Eventually I just shot it with a .22, but the bullet only went through the glass and bounced off a layer of tin foil on the other side.