The Day I Almost Was Shot (Multiple Times) While Beekeeping

Never underestimate the ability of uninformed shooters to cause mayhem. A young boy was shot while playing football in the Bray, OK school yard. Boy was hit in the butt by a .30 caliber bullet fired from a two groove Springfield rifle. The boy recovered: The shooter was never found.

Bullet identified in Bray shooting | Local News | duncanbanner.com

i've testified as an "expert witness" in two shooting cases where the bullet crossed property lines and struck humans, both survived.

When a bullet leaves the target range it's engraved with the shooters name.
 
A kid I went to school with was shot when he was like 4-5 years old, never asked how it happened but I know the bullet went from the back of his head out his eye. Not sure how it was possible he lived but strange things happen, other then him taking his fake eye out in school to scare the girls and some scars he was a normal kid.
 
Coming under fire isn't fun. It's happened to me a few times over the years. The "zip, zip, zip, boom, boom, boom..." really gets your attention. In one case, our use of an alerting warning shot ended the event (psst... don't tell the "experts" who say NEVER fire a warning shot).
 
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Yeesh! Some folks just amaze me.

I haven’t been shot at like you by target shooters, but my whole family and I came pretty close about ten years ago.

BLM allowed open shooting in the canyons around the Calico Ghost Town near Barstow. (It still may be legal, I just haven’t been there for a while.) The family and I were puttering around in our old Rhino and were in a small valley filled with other off roaders. We decided to head back to camp, so we left the valley by following an obviously well used road and cresting a rise.

Right as we topped the little hill, we were staring at the back sides of several target stands with one guy aiming a rifle right at us from about 40 yards away. The guy snapped to attention and lowered his rifle, the other two with him stared bug-eyed at us as if we had just landed in a ufo.

These yahoos came out to Calico, probably from the Westminster/Orange County Ca. area, and instead of safely shooting 180 degrees behind them into a hundred+ foot high hill they set their targets in the middle of this road with about a 10’ backstop.

I wasn’t happy, and as I rolled up I told them that about twenty people were riding right behind their “backstop” and they were set to kill someone if they started shooting. I then drove off shaking my head. I saw them walking to their targets in my mirror, I assume they moved them somewhere safer.

Unless they drove in with earplugs stuck in their ears, there is no way they couldn’t hear those vehicles on the other side of that rise.

Did I say some folks amaze me? :confused:

Stay safe.
 
I once was walking up a road to a public shooting area and noticed bullets whizzing by. Turned out to be people shooting back down the same road they had to walk up to get there. They'd even set up their target in the middle of the lane. The things folks get up to...
 
.38 Special said:
I once was walking up a road to a public shooting area and noticed bullets whizzing by. Turned out to be people shooting back down the same road they had to walk up to get there. They'd even set up their target in the middle of the lane. The things folks get up to...
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.455_Hunter said:
Coming under fire isn't fun. It's happened to me a few times over the years. The "zip, zip, zip, boom, boom, boom..." really gets your attention. In one case, our use of an alerting warning shot ended the event (psst... don't tell the "experts" who say NEVER fire a warning shot).
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Drawing from inside a bee suit is a slow and confusing process, what with the velcro and zippers and all...:D
 
Riomouse911 said:
Yeesh! Some folks just amaze me.

I haven’t been shot at like you by target shooters, but my whole family and I came pretty close about ten years ago.

BLM allowed open shooting in the canyons around the Calico Ghost Town near Barstow. (It still may be legal, I just haven’t been there for a while.) The family and I were puttering around in our old Rhino and were in a small valley filled with other off roaders. We decided to head back to camp, so we left the valley by following an obviously well used road and cresting a rise.

Right as we topped the little hill, we were staring at the back sides of several target stands with one guy aiming a rifle right at us from about 40 yards away. The guy snapped to attention and lowered his rifle, the other two with him stared bug-eyed at us as if we had just landed in a ufo.

These yahoos came out to Calico, probably from the Westminster/Orange County Ca. area, and instead of safely shooting 180 degrees behind them into a hundred+ foot high hill they set their targets in the middle of this road with about a 10’ backstop.

I wasn’t happy, and as I rolled up I told them that about twenty people were riding right behind their “backstop” and they were set to kill someone if they started shooting. I then drove off shaking my head. I saw them walking to their targets in my mirror, I assume they moved them somewhere safer.

Unless they drove in with earplugs stuck in their ears, there is no way they couldn’t hear those vehicles on the other side of that rise.

Did I say some folks amaze me? :confused:

Stay safe.
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And for a large segment of the of the politically aligned country, those "folks" are viewed as poster children of the general gun owning public and fully representative of typical gun owner's conduct.
 
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My wife wants to get bees this spring. Now I can tell her that we need to set up a defensive perimeter that will stop small arms fire, and maybe get plate carriers for the bee suits. :D

Glad it all worked out for you. Thanks for sharing. ... Oh, and don't forget to put up some "gun free zone" signs on the fences so this won't ever happen again o_O
 
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