This video posted by a man doing an experiment to determine if a bat strike on a wood door could produce a sound similar to a gunshot -- when heard at a distance. It was not an attempt to exactly replicate OP's door, his bat, and the technique he used. According to him he found (to their surprise) that a bat strike on a wood door can produce a sound similar to a gunshot.
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