I have done this in a scenario, the name of which I can't remember.
The defending Germans which I had to attack had one Panther which was HIP by SSR. Due to mostly city terrain and streets that the beast likely wanted to cover, there were not too many places that seemed suitable to HIP it. But as long as I did not know, where the thing was, I was inhibited with my other movement which would cost me time I did not have.
So I had a hunch that the Panther would lurk in a particular hex. I pulled up with one of my tanks and stopped at the other end of the street, but nothing happened (maybe the Panther wasn't where I had expected it or he would not take the bait or he wanted to wait for his next PFPh for better TH DRM, whatever). In the next German turn, still nothing happened to my tank. But I had that hunch...
Thus I announced VTT on a "suspected HIP vehicle" - to hell with Acquisition - in the hex in question. I was lucky to roll low and to hit the Panther in the turret wrecking it. Sweet.
I can imagine a situations, where a well founded "hunch" might lead you to rake a certain area with an ammo type which is able to harm a "suspected" target.
von Marwitz