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Have you ever been shot?
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lew61
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Three stories: First, a fellow I worked with for a couple of decades loved to tell about building a "cannon" when he was a boy. Basically, they took a piece of galvanized pipe, added a nipple threaded to take a spark plug, loaded the beast with black powder, some packing, and a collection of nails, bolts, bits of glass, and rocks. Wired the spark plug to a knife-blade switch wired to a 6 volt battery. Plan "A" was for my friend to hold this contraption bazooka-like. Upon further reflection, my friend came to the fortunate conclusion that this was not a good idea. Plan "B" consisted of attaching said cannon to a limb of his mother's favorite apricot tree. "So, we're lying in the grass, Jim closed the switch, and BOOM!!! WIZZZZZZ!! Down comes the limb." Second Story: 1968, I'm in college when a high school friend, home from Viet Nam, ends up sharing a house with me. One day, a group of us is up on a hill having a quiet picnic. All of a sudden, we hear the sound a bullet makes when it passes close overhead. My friend is on the ground, curled up. At first, I thought he'd been shot, but he was okay. Turned out some idiots had been drinking and decided to "target shoot" at the oak trees on the hill below us. We headed home, and never said another word about it. Third story: Neighbor kept a loaded pistol near his front door, up on a bookshelf. Ten year old daughter and a school friend came home, the daughter wanted to show the gun to her friend, reached up to get it, it fell to the floor and discharged, killing her. That was the saddest funeral I've ever attended. I grew up in a farming family. We had, and used guns. I was taught to treat every gun as if it was loaded, to never aim at anything I didn't intend to kill, and that a gun put away, was put away in a safe place.
ae_ted
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2 things to share
grew up on farm, when about 11 had my .410 hunting birds on the back field. saw a blackbird on the power line. shot the bird, BUT a few seconds later a old 1954 Chevy truck came by on the gravel road. Said truck had a shotgun like pattern hole in the driver side(next to me) and the driver was slumped over the steering wheel. truck went about 1/4 mi. and pulled into old house and driver got our and staggered into house. common sense said that I could not have done that, but to a 11 yr old,,,well I thought sure I had shot that old man. SCARED THE **** OUT OF ME AND TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER FORGOT THAT SICK FEELING!!!! I ran up there and toured out he was drunk and the truck already had a hole in the window. But that taught me always to be careful and obey the 10 rules of gun safety!
2 was hunting with a group of 16 yr olds dove hunting I double barrel 20 ga. and we all were loading the guns. we were all country boys and used to guns. I put 2 shells in, closed the gun, BOTH BARRELS WENT OFF! I was practicing good gun safety and no one was hurt. we all looked at each other and all said yep NEVER point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot
3 I still want to smack a girl over this one! Went to a party with 20 or so of my friends. someone had taken a blank pistol and drilled out the barrel plug and put a piece of candy corn in the barrel. Girl comes up to me , points gun at me and pulls trigger I hear the gun! I feel the Pain! I fall back on floor! My T shirt has powder burns and I Still Hurt! took several people to convince me I was not shot but stung by the candy corn. OK....then it took several of my buddies to prevent me from beating the **** of that girl!
grew up on farm, when about 11 had my .410 hunting birds on the back field. saw a blackbird on the power line. shot the bird, BUT a few seconds later a old 1954 Chevy truck came by on the gravel road. Said truck had a shotgun like pattern hole in the driver side(next to me) and the driver was slumped over the steering wheel. truck went about 1/4 mi. and pulled into old house and driver got our and staggered into house. common sense said that I could not have done that, but to a 11 yr old,,,well I thought sure I had shot that old man. SCARED THE **** OUT OF ME AND TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER FORGOT THAT SICK FEELING!!!! I ran up there and toured out he was drunk and the truck already had a hole in the window. But that taught me always to be careful and obey the 10 rules of gun safety!
2 was hunting with a group of 16 yr olds dove hunting I double barrel 20 ga. and we all were loading the guns. we were all country boys and used to guns. I put 2 shells in, closed the gun, BOTH BARRELS WENT OFF! I was practicing good gun safety and no one was hurt. we all looked at each other and all said yep NEVER point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot
3 I still want to smack a girl over this one! Went to a party with 20 or so of my friends. someone had taken a blank pistol and drilled out the barrel plug and put a piece of candy corn in the barrel. Girl comes up to me , points gun at me and pulls trigger I hear the gun! I feel the Pain! I fall back on floor! My T shirt has powder burns and I Still Hurt! took several people to convince me I was not shot but stung by the candy corn. OK....then it took several of my buddies to prevent me from beating the **** of that girl!
bunyip
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My brother shot me in the shin with a small calibre airgun when I was about 12, it didn't hurt much at first until I went to run after him and kick his backside and I fell over, couldn't walk.
Not much of a wound and the old man took out the pellet and doused the wound with after shave, that really stung.
Brother then got a flogging from dad and I got him 2 weeks later when it was not as sore.
Apart from that a few near misses with AA fire in Vietnam but that doesn't count and we got them back with special red cross packages filled with the aircraft toilet contents.
Not much of a wound and the old man took out the pellet and doused the wound with after shave, that really stung.
Brother then got a flogging from dad and I got him 2 weeks later when it was not as sore.
Apart from that a few near misses with AA fire in Vietnam but that doesn't count and we got them back with special red cross packages filled with the aircraft toilet contents.
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No... but both Dad and my brother had been shot at in attempted robberies.
In 5th grade a classmate died in a hunting accident.
He went with his father and uncle peasant hunting... he had set his loaded shotgun down butt end and it went off striking him in the head with shot... it was so remote the ambulance ran out of fuel... no medi-vac or cell phones then.
A real tragedy that you will never forget... his father owned/built a very successful business for 40 employees... within two years the business was closed, parents divorced and word was both hit the bottle to oblivion.
In 5th grade a classmate died in a hunting accident.
He went with his father and uncle peasant hunting... he had set his loaded shotgun down butt end and it went off striking him in the head with shot... it was so remote the ambulance ran out of fuel... no medi-vac or cell phones then.
A real tragedy that you will never forget... his father owned/built a very successful business for 40 employees... within two years the business was closed, parents divorced and word was both hit the bottle to oblivion.
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No... but both Dad and my brother had been shot at in attempted robberies.
In 5th grade a classmate died in a hunting accident.
He went with his father and uncle peasant hunting... he had set his loaded shotgun down butt end and it went off striking him in the head with shot... it was so remote the ambulance ran out of fuel... no medi-vac or cell phones then.
A real tragedy that you will never forget... his father owned/built a very successful business for 40 employees... within two years the business was closed, parents divorced and word was both hit the bottle to oblivion.
I actually know quite a few that have been shot and some killed... all were shot/killed in Oakland CA... mostly met through rental property management...
The truth is those that chose that life either die, get life in prison and a few find Jesus... all young African American male ages 16 to 25
I have had to patch walls and replace windows shot out from handguns and shotguns... the drive-byes are the worst...
As kids we learned the safest place to be is the bathtub without water... that is safe from gunfire... and I'm not kidding... the old cast iron tubs and lath and plaster did stop bullets and shot.
In 5th grade a classmate died in a hunting accident.
He went with his father and uncle peasant hunting... he had set his loaded shotgun down butt end and it went off striking him in the head with shot... it was so remote the ambulance ran out of fuel... no medi-vac or cell phones then.
A real tragedy that you will never forget... his father owned/built a very successful business for 40 employees... within two years the business was closed, parents divorced and word was both hit the bottle to oblivion.
I actually know quite a few that have been shot and some killed... all were shot/killed in Oakland CA... mostly met through rental property management...
The truth is those that chose that life either die, get life in prison and a few find Jesus... all young African American male ages 16 to 25
I have had to patch walls and replace windows shot out from handguns and shotguns... the drive-byes are the worst...
As kids we learned the safest place to be is the bathtub without water... that is safe from gunfire... and I'm not kidding... the old cast iron tubs and lath and plaster did stop bullets and shot.
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Yeah my buddy and I were having a great time in the middle of a field of mellow cows. Heard you could tip over the sleeping ones. They were kind of lazy and we were full of energy, so we stirred them up a bit... that was until the farmer showed up and started firing rock salt at us with his pump gage shot gun. Hit twice, it stung bad, and we ran real fast that day. I'm pretty sure if the track coach was watching I would have made the team right then and there. A very good sprint, then hurdled a barb wire fence, and finished the routine by broad jumping a 6 to 8 foot creek!
Worst part is that my mom made us go back and apologize to the farmer after we told her of our adventure. It sure seemed she was sending us back for the execution.
Worst part is that my mom made us go back and apologize to the farmer after we told her of our adventure. It sure seemed she was sending us back for the execution.
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You had a great mom.
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Growing up, the biggest threat of the cops was that they'd take you to your parents. Yikes! :laughing:
oosik
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Never had the pleasure. Saw a situation very similar to what the OP described. Flock of quail erupted from a stand of grass - guy fires into flock - over the small swale one hunter takes a load of birdshot in his right side. Fortunately - no major damage. About half an hour picking out birdshot. At the time it was called - stupid. Now its called - lack of situational awareness.
We had a new hunter with us one fall - dove hunting. Kind of like trying to bring down an F-35 in full burner mode with a BB-gun. We hunted the draws that tailed out of the wheat fields and down to the rivers where the doves got water after they fed in the wheat fields.
We alway shot with 410's - this new guy had a 12 gauge. As we were walking back to our vehicles, this idiot shot a dove sitting on a power line. Blew the dove to powder but also cut the power line.
My dad was furious - but didn't say a word. He called the power company when we got home. The company my dad worked for paid for the repairs.
We had a new hunter with us one fall - dove hunting. Kind of like trying to bring down an F-35 in full burner mode with a BB-gun. We hunted the draws that tailed out of the wheat fields and down to the rivers where the doves got water after they fed in the wheat fields.
We alway shot with 410's - this new guy had a 12 gauge. As we were walking back to our vehicles, this idiot shot a dove sitting on a power line. Blew the dove to powder but also cut the power line.
My dad was furious - but didn't say a word. He called the power company when we got home. The company my dad worked for paid for the repairs.
