chocolate lab shoots owner

[30 cal slob]

i guess the lesson here is to clear your weapon when not in your hands?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320926,00.html

Dog Triggers Shotgun Blast, Killing Owner in Freak Hunting Accident
Tuesday , January 08, 2008

HOUSTON —

A tracking dog apparently stepped on a loaded shotgun in his owner's pickup truck, firing a fatal blast into the man's thigh during a goose hunt, officials said.

Perry Alvin Price III died at a hospital Saturday from severe blood loss shortly after the accident in southeast Texas.

According to Chambers County sheriff's investigators, Price was hunting near Stowell, about 60 miles east of Houston, when he shot down a goose.

Price, 46, then set the gun in the back of his truck and was about to open the tailgate to release his tracking dog when the shotgun fired, investigators said. The blast penetrated the truck's tailgate before hitting Price.

Paw prints from the dog, a chocolate Labrador retriever named Arthur, were found on the muddy shotgun, Sheriff Joe LaRive said. Daniel Groberg, Price's hunting partner, said he tried to stop the bleeding with clothing before driving him to seek help.

"It's the strangest case that I've seen," LaRive said. "We couldn't talk to Perry and Groberg was at the front of the truck when he heard the shotgun blast and didn't see what happened."

 

[romma]

This type of accident happens all too often lately.

 

[Ash]

It's a sad thing. It should remind us that we can never be too careful with firearms. Of course, this has happened enough in the past. Rules like unload a shotgun when crossing fences or climbing through brush apply also to being at the truck. The safety may or may not have been of any use. If it was a Remington 870 or 11-87 (or any shotgun with a cross-bolt safety), the dog could have, in its excitement, stepped first on the safety and then on the trigger.

It should be a lesson to all of us. I'm just glad it happened after Christmas. Also, learn how to apply a tourniquet. It may or may not have made any difference, but a belt at his groin twisted tightly with a flash-light or even a shotgun barrel (removed from action) might have saved him.

Ash

 

[birdbustr]

Who rides around with a loaded shotgun rattling around in the back of a pickup truck? I'm sure the shotgun was in great shape after who knows how many years the 46 year old man had been doing this.

I know all Labs have the same genes, but all of the chocolate labs I've ever been around were super-hyper and impossible to train. Black and yellow labs have been almost without exception been great hunting dogs.

 

[Heavy Metal Hero]

How about the rule that says "Do not point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy?"

Can you say rifle rack?

 

[El Tejon]

Can you say "sling"?

When you don't need it, sling it. A long gun without a sling is like a handgun without a holster.

We need to redouble our efforts to teach proper gun handling. This was a tragic accident that could have been avoided with education.

 

[sacp81170a]

Who rides around with a loaded shotgun rattling around in the back of a pickup truck?

Unfortunately, people do all the time. I worked security at a gun show this weekend. I was handed a total of 8 firearms that the person carrying did not know were loaded.

The best one was a nice Winchester Model 70 in .243. Guy and his two buddies came in with several rifles slung over their shoulders. He handed me the Model 70 and I overheard his friend ask, "did you check these?" The owner said, "No, they've been locked in the safe since deer season." His eyes got big and round when I pointed the rifle in a safe direction, opened the bolt, and out pooped a nice ballistic tip .243 round.

The buddy said, "We better check the rest of these."

I said, "No, let me check 'em and let's not get ahead of ourselves."

For all the preaching that gets done about gun safety, there are still plenty of idiots out there.

 

[Kingcreek]

Watch out for those those labs. I don't let mine drive since he wrecked my jeep, and I would never trust him with a loaded gun

 

[XDKingslayer]

Stupid media. If the dog killed someone, even with a gun, then it had to be a pitbull. There's no way it was a lab.

 

[41magsnub]

I know all Labs have the same genes, but all of the chocolate labs I've ever been around were super-hyper and impossible to train. Black and yellow labs have been almost without exception been great hunting dogs.

My hunting buddy, Beemer (wanted a BMW, wife said no so I named the dog after the car) would disagree. Very mellow and controllable. Extremely eager to please and trainable.