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Got shot at yesterday

RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Lucky for me, the guy was a terrible shot.My wife and I were out walking the dog (who has a blaze orange collar). We wanted to check out a ridgeline that overlooks the Piney River Valley, so found a well-used hiking trail and got to it. When we reached the ridge, my pooch was out in front about 30yards, when this low-life Missouri hick takes a shot at either my dog or us. I didn't have any way to defend myself, nor would I try to maneuver close enough to that lunatic in the woods. So, we turned and called the cops.OK, I've been on the fence about carrying concealed. Personally, I believe its your right, but I don't have the _need_ for it...until now. And I live in a state that does not allow concealed carry. I guess it's time to move.Brothers, I was livid. You can't even enjoy a nice sunset with your wife and dog without getting shot at. If one of us was hurt, I would have done everything in my power to kill that man.Brian
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ernest Hemingway always said when you are hunting and someone takes a shot at you return the fire immediately, because if you don't, he (or she) is going to fire again. Does your state allow you to carry a rifle in the open? An 18 shot .22 semi-auto could have made it hot for this idiot.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I heard 10 or 12 shots out in the woods behind me this AM. It a fairly large piece of woods and I know there are deer in there but there are small housing developements one three sides. I swear to the ultimate power that if any of those yahoos hit ANYTHING on my property (dogs, house, whatever) I'm gonna hose down the area with a hundred rounds or so from the old M-16.Mudge the pi$$ed
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Isn't it illegal to hunt on Sunday? Here in VA I believe it is. If it is in your state, then that fellow is doubly wrong.
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  • edharoldedharold Member Posts: 465 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    MudgeSounds like great fun, hosing down housing developments. Unfortunately sometimes there are people in housing developments.
    "They that would give up liberty to obtain safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"Benj. Franklin, 1759
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As it turns out, the guy was hunting on Ft L Wood, where hunting season is currently closed to firearms and non-ID card holders. Once I saw the guy there, and realized that I had walked up on him, I did the proper thing and turned to leave. We di-di mau'ed out of there, but not before my dog took a good, healthy dump about 50 yards from where he was hunting. So much for staying scent free! I guess my dog (Jaegermeister) knows a little something about hunting ethics.....
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK...So you called my bluff. I know better than to start firing indiscriminately but the thought helped me get through my little catharsis. We all allow a bit of literary license on these posts.Mudge the chastised
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • elmos608elmos608 Member Posts: 124 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey RedLeg,I have a question about your post. How do you know that the hunter was shooting at you or your dog, and not something else? I'm curious to know because you left this out of your story.
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Elmos,If you are asking if I heard a bullet whipping by my head, then the answer is no. If my dog heard it, that's another question. I know he was shooting at us because he was facing me as I came up over the ridge. He was probably pissed that these people (my wife and I) had the gall to come hiking where he was hunting. Bottom line, I didn't stick around to ask him if he was shooting at me.Brian
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And...he was hunting on federal property that had been placed off limits to firearms hunting and non-ID card holders. This guy knew he was wrong and he probably wanted to scare us off. Regardless, he was doing soething he shouldn't have.[This message has been edited by Redleg (edited 11-19-2001).]
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did always find military installations to be such wonderful hunting grounds. Only military and retired military are allowed to hunt most of them and the training areas are generally way overpopulated with game. I found this out my first day at Fort Drum in the winter of 1999. I had to stop in the middle of the busiest road in order to let a family of turkey cross.
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  • lrarmsxlrarmsx Member Posts: 791 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    IDSMAN75 you'll find that the deer are thick on Camp Dodge. I saw 7 bucks and 4 does Saturday late afternoon. Are you familiar with Camp Dodge? By this point in you stay in Iowa, I figure you may have even been there on business. Or do you not get out of the western part of the state?
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've never had anyone shoot at me, but I don't think it would be very wise to shoot back!Probably leaving the area to a person that stooopid would be your best move. That said ... I sure hope you were wearing hunter orange while walking in the the woods during deer season. Why do you think hunters do so and it most states and provinces are requited to do so?Bonne Chasse and be careful.
    Ken
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg, Tell me more about _exactly_, where you were when you were shot at, as the boundary on Ft. Leonard Wood is somewhat fuzzy to some, and I am aware of a problem in a certain area, I would like to find out if this was intentional or not. I live on Ft. Wood, and have a personal problem with this type of activity.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Robsguns, Do you know the hiking trail that starts by Stone Mill Spring (the trout fishing area). It winds its way up a hill past a couple of benches looking out over the Big Piney River. Well, we had just crested the ridge about 50 yards from the second bench. Does that help?Brian
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Redleg, I will go check out the area myself and take a friend along with me to see what he thinks, I'll stay in touch. robsguns@hotmail.com, stay in touch.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    redleg, I went down there and it is not an area that there should be any question of on or off base, boundaries type of problem. I will keep my ear open for anyone shooting down there, as will my hunting friends, and I hope that this doesnt happen again. I am sorry about your experience here on post.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks, Gunny.
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  • semi-autosemi-auto Member Posts: 50 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some jerk shot the finger at me today! Must have been my enormous truck with the Dixie Flag and the mudflaps suddenly crossing his path that caused him to express himself such! My, don't these foreigners pick up bad behavior quickly. I think I'll get that new bumper sticker I've been wanting at the Big Town show this weekend. It goes like this, "Caution: I drive like you do, and brake for no particular reason"!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lrarmsx--I haven't been to Camp Dodge yet. I'm an active duty Army recruiter. The reserves and the national guard are my competition out here. However, I did not know that you could hunt on Camp Dodge. I'll have to do some investigating now. BTW, I go south of Sioux City, up into South Dakota as far as Elk Point and down into Nebraska a ways. I have yet to travel east of Sioux City.
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