HANDLOADER
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As the tittle says it almost happened let me tell you what happened to cause this. I was setting in my back room today looking out the window and all of a sudden I see a giant flock of black birds fly over head. I have been having trouble with them due to the fact that they like to poop all over my buildings and vechicals. So I grab the pump 12 gauge and some of my high powered reloads and I walk down to the side of my back shop. I throw the shot gun up and fire into the mass of them and I make no contact at all. Bad day to much wind.
So I am now left with 2 rounds of ammo in the tube. So I decide to throw the gun on my steel plate targets and shoot as fast as I can. Just as I am about to pump the action somthing orange in the conor of my eye caught my attention. So I am in the middle of cyclying the action when I look towards the steel plates and what is standing there. A 10 YEAR OLD KID. He was the neighbors a mile away and he was hunting and came upon my steel plate range. I just about dropped my shotgun when I saw him.
If it had not been for that orange I might of made a terrible mistake. You see the kid was wearing orange underneth what I can best descrbibe as a homemade GHILLE suit. And he had his back turned so he blended in the woods which are behind my steel plate setup. And as I shot he jerked around and thats how I saw the orange. It scared the living crap out of me when I saw him and what I was about to do. So I waved to him and he waved back and I went back to the house where I just about fell down due the fact I was shaking so awful. So what did I learn today just because it is your property does not mean that there is no one else one it. So please everyone take this situation and keep this thought in mind "BEFORE YOU START SHOOTING MAKE SURE THERE IS NO PERSON AROUND YOUR TARGET" I have been shooting for the past 30 years and never had this happen before so it was a leason in reiterated saftey to me and hopefully some one else will learn from this post so let me know. Thanks
GOD BLESS US ALL
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
Handloader
So I am now left with 2 rounds of ammo in the tube. So I decide to throw the gun on my steel plate targets and shoot as fast as I can. Just as I am about to pump the action somthing orange in the conor of my eye caught my attention. So I am in the middle of cyclying the action when I look towards the steel plates and what is standing there. A 10 YEAR OLD KID. He was the neighbors a mile away and he was hunting and came upon my steel plate range. I just about dropped my shotgun when I saw him.
If it had not been for that orange I might of made a terrible mistake. You see the kid was wearing orange underneth what I can best descrbibe as a homemade GHILLE suit. And he had his back turned so he blended in the woods which are behind my steel plate setup. And as I shot he jerked around and thats how I saw the orange. It scared the living crap out of me when I saw him and what I was about to do. So I waved to him and he waved back and I went back to the house where I just about fell down due the fact I was shaking so awful. So what did I learn today just because it is your property does not mean that there is no one else one it. So please everyone take this situation and keep this thought in mind "BEFORE YOU START SHOOTING MAKE SURE THERE IS NO PERSON AROUND YOUR TARGET" I have been shooting for the past 30 years and never had this happen before so it was a leason in reiterated saftey to me and hopefully some one else will learn from this post so let me know. Thanks
GOD BLESS US ALL
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
Handloader