Hunting accident...

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Lavan

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Local story in paper about a deer hunter pulling a .308 rifle out of his back seat by the barrel. Gun goes off. Blows away his femoral artery and he dies.
What's worse is he is California Highway Patrolman.

I must be sick because I keep seeing a Gary Larson cartoon with a deer rolling on the ground laughing like crazy.
 
Dammit, it's like I tell my son over and over again, son once you pull the trigger you can't take it back. The other one is son the gun is ALWAYS loaded.
 
This is very saddening to read...
But isn't this the second report of a U.S. LEO shooting themselves, reported on TFL in the last few days!

I believe Gusgus posted a piece about a West Depford N.J. officer shooting himself in the stomach while cleaning his sidearm.

Are LEO's sleeping through safety classes?

A local Mountain Safety firearm instructor told me that posters, calendars, and photos/etc in many local Police stations were regularly and strategically placed over bullet holes from A/D's , N/D's !

Still very sad, though.

[This message has been edited by JoshM75 (edited October 20, 2000).]
 
A few years back, we had a would-be quail hunter do the same thing with a shotgun. A one-time event.

I often wonder just what's going through the heads of people who do this sort of thing. I get nervous looking down the barrel of a gun I'm cleaning, fer Gawd's sake! I just take it for granted that any gun which is locked into battery is loaded and ready to fire. Always.

Art
 
Here in Iowa a turkey shot a guy in the leg cause he threw the gun in his trunk with the supposedly dead turkey..

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Over in Germany, they had a hunting pull the trigger on an expensive
drilling. Or maybe the rifle fell, but I can hardly believe a full
power hit has been caused by a falling hunting rifle, especially since
the victim was basically headless.

And when travelling in the car after a hunt, I remove the bolt from
the rifle.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mussi:
And when travelling in the car after a hunt, I remove the bolt from
the rifle.[/quote]

Come on? seriously? I only remove the bolt when I'm cleaning it. I'll unload the gun, but then, "all guns are loaded." So as a secondary precation, I put the saftey on, AND since "all guns are loaded" I don't let them point at me. Do we really need to dis-assemble it to make it safe?
 
"The rule is simple. Never load your firearm until ready to enter the field."...beat me to this comment. I don't know what people are thinking when they load their guns, and chamber their firearms before they leave home to go on a hunt. Never seen what purpose this served. Except just maybe being too lazy to do it when they get afield. Or their just not too bright!
 
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