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Post by bigblue on Dec 12, 2006 20:25:07 GMT -6
This is a good place to share some local hunting accident stories. A few years back, in my area, a hunter was on private property hunting with the permission of the property's owner. He shot at a deer, disregarding one of the ten commandments of hunting safety, know your target AND BEYOND! A bullet can travel quite a distance, especially from a high powered rifle like the 7mm Rem Mag this guy was using. His bullet traveled a long way to a neighbors driveway and hit a cars window and then the young pregnant lady sitting in the car. It hit her in the head and entered her brain. Luckily most of the bullets power had disapated and did some damage but didn't kill her. She survived but suffered brain damage having to go through long periods of physical therapy to learn to walk and talk again. The hunter and the landowner were both very successfully sued. Had this hunter thought about where the bullet might go if he missed or even if the bullet penetrated through the deer, he may never have taken this shot.
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Post by bayoukid on Dec 12, 2006 22:17:39 GMT -6
That is the main reason I prefer to hunt up high off the ground as I can see my backdrop being the ground behind the deer. I do not squirrel hunt with 22's for this very reason and I do not like to hunt around folks that hunt with them. I have been shot once and have come close to being shot on several other occasions and, it is not fun. Luckily, I was shot with squirrel shot as I was deer hunting in a tree. If it had been a 22, it probably would have killed me as it hit right under my left "can I say nipple?" and lodged between the skin and rib. When I went to hollaring, the dude hauled butt. If I would have got to him, I probably would still be in jail for that stunt cause that crap hurt. It probably scared me more but, I was mad none the less! A guy from the town I am in shot his dad in the leg with a 300mag about a month ago. They were on a pipeline and the son shot at the deer, missed and it went thru the truck door and hit the father in the leg. Bet he got dropped from his will! The guy almost died from loss of blood. Could you imagine the power of an expanding 300mag projectile hitting you in the leg from 100 yards away! Ouch!
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