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Ever been shot at?
rkba4ever
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Just wondering if any of y'all have been shot at. Not counting any vets who may have seen combat, has anyone had bullets fly in their direction? I'll go first.
Twice. Once when I was around 10, me and a friend we're playing in the woods on summer vacation, and we came upon some guys in their mid-teens shooting a 20 gauage a couple hundred yards downhill from us on flat, open area in the swamp. I know it was a 20 guage because later we went back and found the empty shells. Anyway, they looked up and saw us, and the fella behind the trigger decided to point at us and pull the trigger! We hit the deck, and the shot rattled through the trees over our heads, and I know at that distance it wouldn't have had much oomf to it, but still freaky.
Second time me and another friend were woodchuck hunting a pasture at a local livestock auction site. Yes we had permission [:D] Anyway, at the top of the hill, it flattened out and made a sort of "T" and we used to sit under a big tree and glass for 'chucks. We got up and started to move towards one corner to check where the hill rolled where we couldn't see and heard the report from across the field and then another. SHortly afterwards some wierdo cam out of the woods, plastic bags tied at his waist, and a couple squirrels dangling from his belt with his rifle at the ready, then backed into the woods again and disappeared from view.
Anyone else have any similar stories to share?
Twice. Once when I was around 10, me and a friend we're playing in the woods on summer vacation, and we came upon some guys in their mid-teens shooting a 20 gauage a couple hundred yards downhill from us on flat, open area in the swamp. I know it was a 20 guage because later we went back and found the empty shells. Anyway, they looked up and saw us, and the fella behind the trigger decided to point at us and pull the trigger! We hit the deck, and the shot rattled through the trees over our heads, and I know at that distance it wouldn't have had much oomf to it, but still freaky.
Second time me and another friend were woodchuck hunting a pasture at a local livestock auction site. Yes we had permission [:D] Anyway, at the top of the hill, it flattened out and made a sort of "T" and we used to sit under a big tree and glass for 'chucks. We got up and started to move towards one corner to check where the hill rolled where we couldn't see and heard the report from across the field and then another. SHortly afterwards some wierdo cam out of the woods, plastic bags tied at his waist, and a couple squirrels dangling from his belt with his rifle at the ready, then backed into the woods again and disappeared from view.
Anyone else have any similar stories to share?
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had someone put a .22 rifle to my stomach and say they were going to shoot me...i put the barrel to my head and told him he better make sure he did a good job..cause if i lived i`d kill him and everyone in his family...he changed his mind for some reason and then the cops arresred him..he got 3 months and served one..been a few other times when lead whistled around me, but nothing real serious...i got no problem with some idiot shooting at me from 300 yards away with a .22 ...especially when i`ve got a 30-06 [:)]..3 rounds fired real quick usually makes `em look for safer targets.
does this count? found it on youtube
Ive seen that many times, that guy is one lucky sumbich.
Just wondering if any of y'all have been shot at. Not counting any vets who may have seen combat, has anyone had bullets fly in their direction? I'll go first.
Twice. Once when I was around 10, me and a friend we're playing in the woods on summer vacation, and we came upon some guys in their mid-teens shooting a 20 gauage a couple hundred yards downhill from us on flat, open area in the swamp. I know it was a 20 guage because later we went back and found the empty shells. Anyway, they looked up and saw us, and the fella behind the trigger decided to point at us and pull the trigger! We hit the deck, and the shot rattled through the trees over our heads, and I know at that distance it wouldn't have had much oomf to it, but still freaky.
Second time me and another friend were woodchuck hunting a pasture at a local livestock auction site. Yes we had permission [:D] Anyway, at the top of the hill, it flattened out and made a sort of "T" and we used to sit under a big tree and glass for 'chucks. We got up and started to move towards one corner to check where the hill rolled where we couldn't see and heard the report from across the field and then another. SHortly afterwards some wierdo cam out of the woods, plastic bags tied at his waist, and a couple squirrels dangling from his belt with his rifle at the ready, then backed into the woods again and disappeared from view.
Anyone else have any similar stories to share?
When I first starting reading your story I thought I had found an old friend! Me and my buddy were a little older and riding a mini bike in Woodbridge VA in the woods behind our homes, lots of trails through a swampy area. Anyway same sort of thing we came up on some Hunters and they told us we had to leave so we did, did say nothing smart or anything. As we were leaving they fired a shotgun with rock salt and splattered my buddy's * (he was riding behind me) he yelped and held on tighter and I gunned it as fast as it would go out of there. They were never found by the time the police got there.
Another two times while collecting money for a finance company in the ghetto I had a gun held on me but not fired thank god!
back during my High School days. A rabbit ran between myself and one of the other guys. His shot hit in front of the rabbit and some of the shot bounced off the ground and hit me in the leg. Never hunted with him again.
The second time was during Handgun Deer Season ten or so years ago. I was sitting under a tree and about a half a mile across the meadow was an elderly gentleman. A group of guys were pushing a mile or so down the way and a couple does busted out of the woods. The gentleman fired two round, he missed both shots and the second shot
was in my direction, I could hear it coming. It went through the tree about 3 feet above my head.
Never hunted with any of those guys since either.
Caught part of a ricochet in the left arm from a 7.62x54R at the shooting range. This is why I am not a fan of steel targets.
The second time I was driving up Parleys Canyon (deer hunt season) and I heard a loud pop and something hit me in the chest. But not hard enough to penetrate. The pop was my wind shield, there was a small hole in it and it cracked the heck out of it. I pulled over, And found a .30 caliber rifle bullet in between my legs on the seat...Some one had apparently shot a long distance away and it found my wind shield and me. It had enough left to it to go through my wind shield but not enough left to put a hole in me, just a good bruise. So I know it was just an accident and not someone trying to shoot me
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
the second time I was heading for a buddies house and did not witness the incident itself, but came along to see my friend with a hole the size of bird egg in his left shoulder above the collar bone going down inside him. He was leaning against a chair still wearing his earplugs.[:D] There was a .50BMG rifle in front of him, and a steel target about 10 meters from the front door. He looked up at me and smiled and said: "OOPs, seemed like a grand Idea at the time." I got him to the hostpital, and they removed a chunk of copper jacket and lead from him that would have made a sane mother faint.
second time, in Argentina dove hunting, heard the pattern coming from a ridge above, caught one in the temple, swelled up like a marble.
third time, in Argentina dove hunting, we were walking up Perdiz and one flew out in front of our line, then came back between 2 of us. I was swinging on him and saw someone in the background, stopped and covered my face and head just as the shot from his 28ga covered me and the birdboy. Birdboy said, in South American accent,"HEY,.....I AM NOT THE PEEJUN" LMAO
In later years there were two Migs; but the F4's arrived on time and besides that's not what this thread is about!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Me and a friend back in '87 just passed our hunter safety course and got our licenses. I was 17ys old at the time and not working yet. We were walking about 15 yards inside of a woodlot edge. We came to the end of the woodlot and it opened up into an abandoned farm field. We started down the East side of this over grown hedge row and as I mentioned to my friend the 5 guys halfway up the trees about 150 yards West of us, the ground started jumping around us. Those hunters up in the trees were shooting at us and we just crawled to a fallen tree and waited for the shooting to stop. After the shooting stopped we got up and ran back to the woods from where we came and headed home.[B)][:0]
See, there was a drive going on at that time and we didn't know until later. Those 5 hunters had pump shotguns w/full magazines.[:(]
I have to admit here and now that this was MY fault. [8][B)]
See, the only jacket I had for winter was a Arctic Parka or "snorkel parka" colored in TAN. Yes, I said, "Tan." [:0]
That quickly changed for the next time. I'd earned some money and bought a TreeBark revesable vest, which I still have.
my 12 gauge semi auto and that stopped them promptly ! After several more incidents like that during same hunting season I gave up hunting for 30 years until my son wanted to try it.