[duckfoot]

After a long day loading hay for a friend yesterday I headed back to my truck and took a long drink from the water can I had in the bed. I just put the can down when I hear a loud thump about a foot away like some one through a rock at the side of my truck. When I look, what do I see but a .30 cal bullet stuck in the side panel. Well, brother you can bet that I got out of there fast along with all the fellas that were working with me. About 15 min later after we call the county sheriffs office we went back out and I found another bullet had hit my truck (through the window) and a car of a kid that was working for us that day nine yards away. Well the county mounty showed looked at the cars then pulled out a map and we went over all the places that some one might be shooting from because we never heard the shots while working (tractor noise and all). This didn’t help much because not all the roads in the area are listed on county maps. Finally I had to pull out a 1/3inch dowel rod and compass and did a rough back azimuth on the two holes and tried to triangulate about where these idiots were shooting from. The farmer remembers an old tractor trail that ran in the area where we thought these guys might be shooting from. Well to make a long story short we found new tire tracks, hundred 30-06 cases and a 2x4 driven into the ground on the backside of a low hill almost a mile away. The sheriff wrote all sorts of stuff in his little notebook got all our names and went along his merry way saying that he will let us know if they find out anything. The next day we got permission from the landowner with the trail on it and blocked the trail off with a five-foot high pile of dirt and logs after explaining what happened the day before.

Never thought it would happen to me.

Never say never!

[sm]

:what:

Glad everyone is ok.
Sorry about damage.

[JSolie]

....:what:

Where's that list of rules? Someone needs to have it tatooed to the inside of their eyelids.... :fire: :fire:

I'm glad that you're okay, and I hope your roadblock does the trick.

-- John

[illuminatus99]

reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me....

when he was young and dumb he was shooting crows out of a tree with a .22, after about an hour the phone rings. the guy on the line was a farmer that lived about a mile down the road, he said one of his cows just dropped dead and he found a little bullet hole in its head, two seconds before that cow dropped the famer had been standing in the path of the bullet. from then on my friend went up on the roof to shoot down at the crows.

[foghornl]

Hope those *&^%^&** get caught REAL FAST. And that someone beats the 4 Rules into their heads.

Print out 4 Rules...attatch to stock of weapon they were shooting...drum into their pointy heads

[Kharn]

First reaction: :what: :scrutiny:

Second reaction: Did you keep the brass? :evil:

Kharn

[sturmruger]

That is really scary!!! That is why my back yard range is angled down hill. All of my bullets pass through my targets and end up in the creek bed. Must be a special kind up stupid to shoot up a hill. like that.

[Carnitas]

Had a co-worker who went on vacation and had the neighbor kid feed his dog. The kid and a buddy got into his gun cabinet, set some soda cans on the bottom rail of his back fence, and proceeded to take target practice.... with his hunting rifles..... in a suburban neighborhood.

Just so you know a 270 will go through a 3/4 inch redwood picket..... and the neighbors exterior wall and one of the interrior walls.

Fortunately no body got hurt and the neighbor was extremely good natured.