[Amadeus]

Okay. This is a spin-off from another thread. Someone mentioned the possibility of getting shot while in the field. Have any of you ever been shot while hunting? And when I say shot, I don't mean your little brother zapped you with a BB gun (you'll put your eye out); I mean SHOT.

What happened? Let's hear your tales -- if any.

[H&Hhunter]

How about almost got shot.

I was guiding a female client on an elk hunt in NM several years ago. my rule is no loaded rifles in the truck. So the first time she gets into the truck i ask her if her rifle is empty to which she reply that it is. I say are you sure i didn't see you open the action before we got into the truck.

She has the gun poited at the cieling of the truck and when she clicks the safety off the rifle A REMINGTON MOD 700 goes off blowing my windshield out.

Two lessons learned

One never allow a hunter into the truck with a closed action.
Two never trust a trigger block safety. Especially a REMINGTON.

If you've ever had a .308 go off inside the closed cab of a pick up you'll know how disconcerting it is.

(this is one of the reasons I don't like remingtons guys i've been there when the "immposible" occured.)

[HABU]

I havn't been shot, but have been shot at with a semi automatic 22. Talk about getting down in the dirt quickly!:what: Me and an friend were bow hunting elk on public land about 100 yards behind a house. I guess they thought the elk were their pets. About a dozen shots were quickly deployed about 15 feet up in the trees.

[P95Carry]

H&H .... I don't trust safeties .... PERIOD!! Never have ... and for sure they do not immediately dispose of rule #2!!

Nothing replaces an open breech/action .. even better is if an OBI is in place ... keeps the pucker factor down!

Thank heaven I cannot relate being shot per se ...... like you tho I was in the vicinity of a near miss. This was upland bird shooting .. coupla guys along with me .. one I knew (and trusted) .... the other ... didn't know him from Adam.

Stranger seemed OK and safe but he did the unforgiveable .. crossed a low fence with loaded and unbroken gun .... made worse by the fact that - as discovered later - he had finger on trigger .. sheesh .. how scary is that?! I was relying on my buddy to keep watch on the stranger .. he didn't. Well not for the critical period.

We were both over the fence and had re closed our guns, and back to the half port. Stranger got his pants caught in a barb and started a forward fall ... which he attempted to arrest with his gun butt!! In the process of trying to manipulate the gun to be butt first he (with finger on trigger) discharged said piece ... shot flying (fortunately) almost upwards. A shower of leaves was the main result.

After tho I could not help but imagine the situation if he had let the gun pivot forward further before the ND ..... one of us could have been ventilated, as we were not that many feet away.

Salutary experience and since then I have watched people I do not know like a hawk ..... seems safer that way!

[Spinner]

Never been shot (touch wood) but been shot at.

Two of us hiking along a public track in a forest park, getting close to the hut we were intending on staying in that night, minding our own business when a shot was fired very close to our location (wasn't either of us ... we didn't even have rifles with us). Immediate reaction was hit the dirt ..... and then yell like crazy. Greeted with silence. After about 5 minutes we got up carefully and carried on walking. :uhoh:

When we got to the hut there was some gear already there ... obviously somebody already staying there. The place was a shambles. We decided to camp near the hut in the tent we had brought with us. About half an hour after we set up camp near the hut a grubby looking hunter turned up with an old iron sighted .303. We had a bit of a chat and asked him how the hunting was, he didn't say too much. I asked if he'd been hunting in the area near the track coming in because we'd heard some shots fired. He immediately said he'd been hunting a completely different area in another direction.

Hmmmmmm, maybe. :scrutiny:

I reckon he'd somehow mistaken one or both of us for deer (must have been the bright red pack on my back! :scrutiny: ), hadn't identified his target and chanced his arm with a shot. Luckily it didn't connect with either of us.

We high-tailed it out of the area early the next morning.

Spinner

[Kingcreek]

I was shot by a fellow pheasant hunter on the last day I ever hunted with him. 2 of us with 2 dogs (retrievers) walking a brushy creek bottom, one each side of the creek. I had been trying to keep him in sight or loc by sound but he wasn't as concerned as I was. It made me nervous because if I didn't know where he was, he probly didn't know where I was, and most of the time I couldn't see him. One of the dogs busted a rooster and he flew with full vocals right down the middle of the waterway. CAWK, CAWK, CAWK, BANG! right as the bird passed between us. I just had a feeling he was going to shoot and a half second before the bang I had just ducked and turned when the shot swatted the back of my lined carhart canvas coat. Some of the pellets went thru the coat but none broke the skin. stung like he11. I whistled the dog to heel and left. A-hole laughed about it and never even offered to buy me another coat. Apparently, same guy later killed his own dog in a hunting accident but still he hunts.

[Joe Demko]

Been hit with shotgun pellets while small game hunting. Didn't break the skin, luckily. The guy who shot me got an earful, though.

[5ptdeerhunter]

I was shot in the eye lid with a bb gun. My friend shot some armymen off a board in my garage and the bb bounced off the wall and came right at my face. I didn't move out of the way but I did close my eye before it hit me. I have also been shot in the back off a ricochet from a wall. Both stung quite a bit. And also on one hunting trip some guys were pushing a corn field and the guy shot at a deer or so he says. But the shot was quite high and went over our heads. We were about 100 yards from the corn and we all heard the slug wizzing by. Friggin' scared me half to death. I will never trust those guys with guns again.

[DigMe]

I was shot in the eye lid with a bb gun.

Was it a a Red Ryder?

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

brad cook

[Smoke]

Been peppered by shot lots of times. Nothing more than than a sting.

Smoke

[Amadeus]

I didn't expect so many replies so quickly. Good to hear no one has been seriously popped. But there are still enough close call stories to make me think twice about getting into this sport. Now I'm all worried.

[HankB]

I've been "sprinkled" with birdshot while pheasant hunting. It had obviously been fired upwards at a high angle, so when it came down it was like a gentle rain . . . no danger unless you looked up and weren't wearing glasses.

My father told me many years ago, just after WWII, he and some other folks were hunting and somebody started shooting in their direction, with the bullets passing between members of the party, zinging through the trees, etc. When their yelling didn't stop the shooting, the gunfire was, quite reasonably, returned by the entire party, which included a couple of veterans. This stopped the shooting.

They never found the guy who'd started this nonsense, though I understand they looked, and were prepared to administer a little attitude adjustment.

As far as actual safety goes . . . I've had far more close calls on the road while traveling to a hunting destination than while actually hunting. I consider hunting to be one of the safest sports, with the least number of injuries, around.

[Amadeus]

the gunfire was, quite reasonably, returned by the entire party, which included a couple of veterans. This stopped the shooting.


Ooyah! No vet here. But that's a good way to deal with it. Some guy out there is probably wondering to this day how he managed to cross paths with a live fire training exercise. That'll learn him.

[Larry Ashcraft]

My dad was shot at back in the 50's while hunting elk or deer, before the days of Day-Glo orange. Some guy on another mountain fired directly at him.

What did he do? Shot back of course. He shot to miss of course, because there wasn't much that he shot at that he ever missed.

[Legionnaire]

Not personally. A fellow New York Stater took a shotgun slug a couple of seasons ago. See this thread at HuntingBBS.com: http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.asp?m=114714&mpage=1&key=i+got+shot&#114717 Scan down to the post by Crowpecker.

[5ptdeerhunter]

I wasn't hit with Red Ryder, but it was a really old crosman 760. All the ones now are made of plastic but mine is made of metal.

[Kevlarman]

I have an old model Crosman 760 too! Hefty metal, walnut stock, and the ability to put multiple BBs in the barrel for a shotgun effect!

Too bad it doesn't work anymore. :(

[No Trespassing]

Not hunting but safety related....

My wife was shot with a .45LC at the age of 4yrs.

They lived very remotely so firearms where a part of life (still are in our house).

Her dad had left a revo laying around a little too conspicuosly and accessable. Her idiot brother, 8 years old, and despite a lot of exposure to gun safety, rules, etc picked it up and pointed it at her. He was playing around saying he was gonna shot her.

She dared him and he did.

The bullet entered her left leg just below her knee cap, grazed the bone, expanded (quite nicely from the scars that are still there) and exited the back of her leg. She still has her leg but another1/8 and probably not at that age.

Her dad heard the shot and they rushed her to the hospital. After a lot of serious questioning they all went home that night. No charges against dad (not so nowadays I reckon).

BTW - she is a "gun nut".

[St. Gunner]

Never hit...

I was out one night with a fellow hog hunter and the dogs had a very large boar hog in a small 1-2 acre thicket in the middle of a field. I asked him to sit in the truck with it running while I went into the thicket and sorted it out. It was a real mess in there, dogs torn up, and he just wouldn't stop for them. Finally after about 30 minutes he stopped just inside the thickets edge and I went slipping up on him on my belly with no flashlight. Plan was to slide in to within a couple yards and put a 180gr XTP into his head from my blackhawk. It was moonlit and I couldn't turn the light on for fear of him breaking again. I checked the truck, just to my left, still running. So I drew the hammer back and was preparing to fire when the world exploded. I felt warm moist stuff all over my face, the hog was on the ground kicking, and when I looked down, about 6" from my right hand was a bullet hole in the dirt. It was 180 gr XTP, from the other guys gun. He'd left the truck and come to kill the hog, without a clue where I was. He missed my head by less than foot, and I was close enough to the bullet path to get coated with blood from the exit wound.

It was the last hunt with that yahoo.

Caught some birdshot one day from a new guy. When I was about 12 the neighbor caught me poaching ducks on his farm and got me with a load of 7 1/2's, haven't poached since...

My dad caught 117 pellets of 7 1/2 while guiding quail hunters about 12 years ago. He still carries 6 of them around. One hunter was slow getting off the truck and the other hunters busted the birds, the brave soul decided to shoot anyway, tagged dad at about 12yds in the back and neck.

[Frohickey]

:what:

[scotjute]

How dangerous is shot when it rains down (from gravity)?
I've been duck-hunting and heard on occasions the shot patterns fall out of the sky. It did sort of resemble rain as someone mentioned earlier.

[P95Carry]

Free fall shot ... in particular smaller sizes .. is no real hazard at all ... unless maybe you looked up at wrong time with no eye protection.

[mfree]

Yeah, bird shot isn't heavy enough to gain an appreciable velocity under gravity power.

A green walnut hurts more. Believe me, it *hurts* to get pinged with those little wooden balls falling from ~50 feet or so :) Friggin squirrels...

[Stand_Watie]

My brother described to me being hit by falling birdshot. He said it didn't even sting through his heavy shirt. I'd recommend anybody testing the theory wear eye protection though.

[Art Eatman]

Getting "rained on" by 7-1/2 or 8 shot is pretty common when dove hunting. No biggie, generally, but it's why you space folks out at a distance around a field.

Eons ago, a lady was leaving a hunting lease in her new Oldsmobubble. She still had one buck tag left, so she was "prepared". Unfortunately, she hit a severe bump and her .270 discharged. Got any idea what a .270 will do to a Hydramatic*? :D

Art

* Disremember the correct spelling; "hydra" or "hydro"? Doesn't matter; an automatic transmission is a many-headed monster, anyway.

[jptsr1]

I got shot in the knee with a .22 by my idiot brother when I was a kid. We were climbing up a tree to get a better angle on some rabbits and squirrels feasting in a field on my grandfather’s farm. Genius has the rifle slung over his shoulder and it got stuck on some branches. When he went to take it off his shoulder it went off (at least that was his story). The bullet hit the trunk of the tree and somehow wound up lodged in my kneecap. He wouldn’t even believe he shot me until the blood started showing through my pants. I’m sure it would have been much worse if the bullet hadn’t hit the tree first. In any case I still remember it being the most painful thing I had ever felt and I've still got the tiny scar almost 20 years later. I don’t know how folks say that they got shot and didn’t even feel the hit because I remember being in some serious pain even though it was only a .22.

J.

[SDC]

I've also been hit with shot while on a sporting clays course; some IDIOT decided to try skeet shooting with #4s, and they had enough punch that he was raining shot all over the place. These things were still moving fast enough to draw blood when they came down, and if the one that hit me in the cheek had been an inch higher (and I hadn't been wearing shooting glasses), I'd be missing my master eye right now.

[Stand_Watie]

I got shot in the knee with a .22 by my idiot brother when I was a kid.

I knew a kid in school who shot himself in the knee hitting .22 shells with a hammer.

[grislyatoms]

My grandparents lived right on the edge of a large State park. We would go back there and play Army and shoot BB guns and stuff. One afternoon I was pedaling my bike away from the park towards my grandparents and heard that unmistakeable sound of a BB / Pellet gun behind me. A split second later it hit me square in the back. Crashed my bike, I was crying and squalling bloody murder. A neighbor lady came out and asked me what was wrong, I said that someone had just shot me with a BB gun. She turned sheet white and said "Are you sure your bike tire didn't hit a rock that then hit you?" I just picked up my bike and walked to my grandpa's, squealing and squalling the whole way. Grandpa and my Uncle heard me and asked what happened. I said I had got shot with a BB gun. They lifted my shirt, Grandad's face turned beet red when he saw.

I had been shot with a .22 caliber pellet, as we would learn later, from one of those fancy German? high velocity pellet guns. The pellet had broke the skin and was stuck about halfway in. Surrounding it was a huge purple swollen bruise. Grandpa and my Uncle took me with them to " go find those son's of bitches". Right at the edge of the road and the park we stopped and listened. You could hear the sound of a couple people a little ways off pumping / cocking a couple of pellet guns. Grandpa told my Uncle to go around one way and he would go around the other. I went with my Grandpa. We walked right up on them. My grandpa grabbed the pellet gun from one of them and swung it against a tree like a baseball bat. Bent it about 90 degrees, and all the wood on it was shattered. He then said "Your Mr. xxxxxxxx's grandson, aren't you". The kid (he was about sixteen) said yes. Grandpa grabbed him and my Uncle grabbed the other kid and marched off to the grandparent's house. Grandad rang the doorbell. Mr. X answered the door. Grandad exploded. He threw the pellet gun at his feet, turned me around, and showed Mr. X my back with the pellet still sticking out and yelled and hollered for what seemed like twenty minutes. Turns out the neighbor lady who tried to convince me that it was a rock was this kid's grandma.

Might not sound like much but it hurt like hell and I must say I have never been so proud of my grandpa!

[voilsb]

Well, I didn't get shot, but it's a good story for this thread.


I was an OC for a squad of infantryman on a squad tactics lane a year or so ago. We were running around in the woods with M4s, blank adapters, and MILES gear. Well, en route to the start point for one of the patrols a bright private decides to open fire on a hunter who happens to be outside the training area (barely; we were also only barely inside the training area).

Thankfully, the hunter hit the dirt (instead of returning fire) and there were a lot of people shouting "CEASEFIRE!! CEASEFIRE!!" Needless to say, that private got his fare share of PT in for the day ... Unfortunately, we still had a PR mess to deal with.

Keep in mind that the hunter was carrying a civilian rifle (didn't look remotely military), wearing an orange cap, and walking down the road chatting with his buddy. He in no way fit the description of the enemy given in the OPORD, his equipment, uniform, demeanor, or even general location.

[45 Carry]

While quail hunting when I was 16 I had a quail flush and fly right for my head. My hunting partner swung right and shot while I sat down really fast. He missed me got the quail. I still think, What a dumb **it.

[sumpnz]

grislyatoms, Welcome to THR. With one exception I think your grandpa handled that situation very well. Only thing I think should have done differently would be to get the pellet out, and then give the bill from the doctor, and for the new shirt, to the kid that shot you.

[grislyatoms]

Thanks for the welcome. I don't know much of the aftermath, Grandad got sick and my grandparents moved about two years later. Mr. X was always VERY nice to me after that on the few occasions that I saw him and, for whatever reason, I never did see the grandson again. Grandma photographed my back, plucked out the pellet and washed the area with peroxide. That following Monday she took me to the Dr. and I got a tetanus (I think that's what it was) booster and some kind of creme stuff (looked like vaseline) to put on.

[sumpnz]

That creme stuff was probably bacitracin zinc. Along with H2O2, I had to smear that on my forhead for weeks after my forhead was turned to hamburger in a car wreck (I was in the back seat). The plastic surgeon they called in did an amazing job.

Anyway, sounds like the aftermath was handled pretty well. At least it was an air rifle, not a rimfire, or worse yet centerfire.

Take it easy, and keep 'em in the X-ring.

[trapperjohn]

shortly after I married I bought my new wife a browning pump 20 guage. We did quite a bit of clay bird shooting through the summer untill i was convinced she was somewhat profecient with it.
I decided to break her in on squirrel hunting. About the second time we went out we decided to set up in a hickory grove about 40-50 yards apart. After about 20 minutes I looked up and saw a grey squirrel at about 3 oclock. (wife would have been at 12 oclock) I was really anxious for her to make her first kill as she had never shot anything alive before. I see her raise the gun and at that time the squirrel takes off running. Running between us! I watch the squirrel and watch my wife, in under a second I find myself looking down the barrel of a 20 guage. I raise my hands to cover my face and go to duck and hear a boom. Feel sting in fingers. Look down and I have a nice hole in my wedding ring finger. Fortunately I only took one pellet (still carry it to this day).
My poor wife will never live down the fact that the first living thing she ever shot was her husband. I have since said we should have spent less time in pre-marital counselling and more in hunters safety. The wound really wasn't that bad. She was more shaken up than I was and I had to spend the night making her feel better.
addendum: Made her go back hunting the next day and she killed that squirrel, she didnt want to go as she felt bad about what happend but I didnt want her being afraid to hunt. I now beleive she is probably the safest person I can hutn with as she is ANAL about gun safety.

[Battlespace]

I was hunting deer about 30 years ago with a friend when we were shot at. The bullet hit right between us. Both of us wearing more than the minimum requirement in blaze orange. We looked around and saw a hunter on a ridge line about 200 yards away with rifle up and pointed in our direction. Fred had a .300 Savage with a scope and I had an iron sighted 1917 Enfield. We both yelled and the guy kept on aiming at us. I don't know if he was trying to figure out what was going on who or what we were or what. Anyway Fred, who was probably 30 at the time (I was 17) told me to drop to the ground. I did! He then returned fire, putting a round almost at the guy's feet. He hightailed it over the hill and we went in the other direction.

[don]

I was shot in the forearm with a .25 caliber auto. There was no great pain until I got the doctor's bill. The bullet entered about 4 inches below the wrist and exited about 2 inches above the elbow. the wound was on the ventral side of the arm. the projectile was fmj and no permanent damage was done...I hope. I was lucky in that respect. Don't ask about how it happened; suffice it to say a severe case of dumba.. was involved

[Hot brass]

First day of summer school (7th grade) I am outside of my grandma`s house showing the other kids my cap gun. The cool ones that take the caps in the plastic. Kid asks "pop" an old man who lived next door if he had a gun. Pop comes outside with a 20ga. My back is turned to him. I hear the gun go off. Turned around and the kids start screaming "Jeff" you been shot. I looked down at my new shoes and saw blood. I went screaming into the house. Pop had shot me in the right ankle. I thought my mom was going to kill the old man. I still carry 10 min shot in my foot.



Friend comes home hears noise, goes to his 14 yr old sisters bedroom with surplus 7mm in his hands. Opens door, sister and boyfriend is going at it. Friend raises 7mm, boyfriend dives out the window as friend shoots and hits boyfriend in the a$$. Did not get in trouble. this was back in the late 60`s.
Nowadays he would be under a jail.


Went tree squirrel hunting with a friend. We are standing (me in front) on a fallen log/tree. Tree squirrel jumps from tree to tree in front of me shotgun goes off just over my head. I told him next time you shoot my way, I shoot you with my 357mag and leave you here.

[Edward429451]

Never been shot hunting.

I have a video of my dad shooting his G21. I guess places to shoot around Canton Ohio are scarce. He wanted to send me a shooting vid in response to one I sent him. He's demonstrating his pull and empty the mag at the BG tecnique. Of course he has muffs on. He pulls and dumps the mag from the hip off into the trees and you can hear the yelling start in the distance. He cant hear the yelling with his muffs on so reloads and dumps another magful...Then stands there and reloads his mags while narrating his opinions and tecniques and opinion of J. Reno etc., all the while the yelling has not ceased. He goes through two more mags, reloads and just as he's getting his first mag off you hear a vehicle drive up off screen and dust drift into frame. This guy comes over and just unloads on my dad (verbally) about how they're bbq'ing over there and bullets are just zinging through the trees all over the place around his house. Dad was mighty apologetic of course and mad that there's no place to go shoot anymore without going indoors. Very scary video, not humerous in the least.

Rule #4 dad.:uhoh:

[sumpnz]

You're dad is sooo lucky noone got hurt. He's also pretty lucky to not be in jail on something like reckless endagerment charges.

[Edward429451]

Yep.

[orangeninja]

I've been hit with 7 1/2 field shot. Couple of times actually. Stings, but I was far enough away that it didn't break the skin. Long story....both of them.

I've also been hit with a .40 cal ricochet and a .22 cal ricochet. The .40 cal was due to an improper backstop....(you know, like a tree) bounced back and hit me right in the gut. Didn't break the skin....really shook me up though. The .22 glanced off a tree and hit me in the chest. I actually caught the bullet.

Had a .22 single shot backfire in my face and burn the skin around my eye. Safety glasses guys.

Had a jackass unload an AR 15 at me from about 200 maybe 150 yards. He was in an open field, I was in a brushline. It was me and my brother with a couple of .22 lr semi autos. Our concealment and rate of fire convinced him, his trespassing buddie and his freshly perferated jeep to leave. He open fire on us when we started to yell "What are you doing here." after he blasted away in all directions on my grandma's farm. We then yelled that he was trespassing. He then shot at us. We took cover under heavy Louisiana brush and returned fire. He took cover behind his jeep. Which we hit a lot. You could hear the clank clank from where we were.

[sumpnz]

To bad you only hit his Jeep.

[wintermute76]

I haven't been shot, but my sister got shot twice with a .308.

Deer season in November of 96, my sister is in a tree stand behing my grandfathers house. Wearing a full blaze orange outfit, jacket, pants, hat and gloves. This kid from the hunting shack about 3/4 mile down the road got lost and ended up climbing a stand about 90 yards from my sis. Dani, my sis, shes hunting with a Rem 7400 in .280 Rem, iron sights. She saw someone climb in the other stand, and there is a shooting lane cleared between both stands. She thought it was my uncle. Anyways, she sees a deer a ways away and as she is waiting for a shot, she hears a shot. She figured that our uncle saw the same deer. The deer runs off and she sits down. Another shot is fired, she feels a tightness in her lower back. Stands up, thought it was a cramp, sits down again. Two more shots are fired. One round hit her in the knee, and she starts yelling. Evidently this kid snaps out of whatever the hell was wrong with him and runs over. Dani tells him to run to the house and have grandpa call for help. He runs off to the house. My uncle was walking thru the woods towards my sisters stand and hears her screaming and gets there about a minute after the kid leaves. My uncle is a paramedic, which is a good thing.


The whole time, "Im sitting in a stand about a mile away, pretty close to the house, but off the trail. I heard some yelling after the shots, but figured it was the partying yahoos across the river carrying on like the week before. Then I see someone in orange running along the trail. Figured it was my sis running to the house to get my dad and the ATV to pull out a deer.

Ends up, the kid shot 4 times at my sister, with a scoped .308. No one knows what the hell he was thinking, the sheriff let him go before getting a drug test. They did confiscate the rifle, but the next day the kids dad bought him a new one so he could keep hunting :fire:

So now, after I don't know how many surgeries, she has a fused knee and carries a .308 slug in the middle of her pelvic girdle. The secind shot had glanced off the tree she was in front of. She said she hardly felt that one.

This whole story still makes me mad at that idiot :cuss:

[P95Carry]

Ends up, the kid shot 4 times at my sister, with a scoped .308. That is near unbelievable .... and she was all in blaze orange.

Sorry .... no one but no one should be allowed anywhere within range of others if that is there ''competence'' ....... sounds more like reckless endangerment at the very least .... totally incredible.

The story makes you mad? I should say ...... and some.:(

[sumpnz]

Ends up, the kid shot 4 times at my sister, with a scoped .308. No one knows what the hell he was thinking, the sheriff let him go before getting a drug test. They did confiscate the rifle, but the next day the kids dad bought him a new one so he could keep hunting And why isn't that kid in jail? And why hasn't his family been bankrupted by a lawsuit? That would have been my minimum prefered result given their behaviour after the incident.

[Zorro]

Don't Wear Blaze Orange in New Mexico, Some of the Yahoo's there will shoot at you.

Main reason I like the M-14 or a Sniper Type Rifle when I hunt there. Might actually end up in a real fire fight over a deer.

[sm]

I think the old boy was serious about his watermelons staying in his patch - I really do. Still one either hits the deck or hauls butt when rock salt is a flying. Of course if on the deck,might as well "thump a few"...gonna be running anyway...:D

I have had the pellets "rain", whilst bird or waterfowling.


* Disremember the correct spelling; "hydra" or "hydro"? Doesn't matter; an automatic transmission is a many-headed monster, anyway. - Art
:D
That would make a great sig line.

Seen what a '06 will do to a Turbo 400. NOT hunting related. Well a lady is running around on her husband, they have separated, he files for divorce.

The ladies dad is none to happy about his daughters "behavior". He and SIL are quite close. He "loaned" daughter that Buick, still in his name. She comes to visit - daddy wants a "meeting" with the daughter. She won't listen - she gets defensive and ugly - disrespectful.

Daddy strolls outside to his truck, removes rifle from gun rack..Opens door to Buick ( his car remember) shoots trannie. "Start walking, find a pay phone and call "your BF"...you ain't kin no more. :D

He calls the Sheriff, to tell him the why and what of actions. Sheriff cracked up laughing, no charges filed. He did tell Deputies to NOT offer a ride to her if seen "headin' down the way".

[birddog]

I've been "rained on" by shot several times while duck, pheasant and quail hunting. Nothing but a nuisance. Only one time was a shot fired directly at me (I was in blaze orange, but the hunter across the creek was focused on the rooster pheasant flushing out of the cat-tails between us) and let me tell you, only two pellets found their way to my neck. They didn't break the skin, but boy did they sting! He was shooting almost directly at me, perhaps 80 yards away.