Just violated Rule 4

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BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET and what is beyond it.

Sitting here surfing the webernet as my wife goes to let the dogs in for the night when she hollers for me. Says there a huge rat in the aisle between the rabbit pens. I get my trusty bolt .410 varmit getter. She holds the light and directs me to the varmit. I can't tell it is a rat but know there is something there that shouldn't be there and wasn't there earlier. She says it moved. I draw and fire because I don't want it to get away under the shed. After the dust settles I go to investigate and find that I just trashed one of our rabbits water bottles.

Just cost a couple bucks but it pays to remember to use your own judgement all the time.

Evan
 
"Dont shoot around the house or the cars!!!" Cant tell you how many times I heard that come out of my grandpa's mouth.
So far he has blown a hole in the side of his tool shed shooting at a skunk, and shot the mirror off the truck shooting accross the hood at a deer in the alfalfa:D
We still bring up the skunk's tail stuck to the shed, the wad severed the tail and pinned it to the top of the hole in the shed. He doesn't find it near as amusing as we do.:rolleyes::D
 
Pay attention to what is in front of the target too! (Or maybe its just a truck thing)
My uncle was having trouble sighting in his Browning 16 ga. He was resting the gun accross the hood of his truck and could not figure out why he was getting no consistancy in his shot placement. He got frustrated picked up the gun and rattled off 3 quick shots (semi-auto). To his amazement it wasn't a bad group and he couldn't understand why he would group better offhand than benchrested. Then he noticed all the grooves in the hood where the slugs were grazing it!!!:eek:
 
Personally I prefer richochet shots, like the time I shot the Copperhead off the concrete walkway in front of the pumphouse with the 410 and it promptly killed the snake AND the side of Grandfather George's aluminum boat.

Of course I was busted from snake duty for a while but I was eventually restored to power when the next snake showed up.....
 
Back in the 70's, when I was a kid, my grandfather had a sparrow trap mounted on the side of his garage. It had a weighted mechanism so that he could catch one after another, as long as they kept going after the bird seed that appeared easy to get.

It was effective on thinning the english sparrows, too.

But one day there was a pigeon that was too big to get caught, and it was reaching through and easing all of his bird seed that he used for bait. So, he got a .22 rifle and shot it off of the trap.

A little while later, he decided he should go out into the garage aqnd see what all he'd hit inside the garage.

There was a glass, one gallon jar of honey sitting on a shelf...

Daryl
 
A hunting buddy of mine, one year at deer camp, learned more than he wanted to about the penetrating power of #8 shot. He was fed up with the unending hammering of a woodpecker on the side of the hunt shack...
 
LMAO!!!!!!! You guys are really good sports to tell these tales on yourself.

They are all good reminders and as soon as I finish typing this I'm going to "knock long & hard on some wood" cause I have been lucky enough to avoid these kind of things....


But.... I did shoot a skunk in the had 4 times one night because the darn body twitched every time after the first one...... :eek:
 
The first day I had my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, at age 8,

I got up early, got ready for school, then called my best buddy to come down to my house to see me shoot.

I was going to impress him by shooting a clothes pin off my mother's clothes line.

Only problem was, I was concentrating so hard on trying to keep the sights lined up, I didn't even think about what was beyond the target.

As my father sat at the breakfast table, eating his cereal, MY BB crashed thru a window pane and sprayed glass fragments into the cereal bowl.

Boy, did I LEARN a lesson! Couldn't sit down for a week!!

When I got home from school, it took me an hour to find my BB gun, as Daddy had flung it out across the calf pasture as far as he could throw it. It wasn't hurt near as bad as my backside.
 
Shoot long enough and often enough and you will violate every rule ever written.
It happens.

As long as no one gets hurt consider it a learning experience.

AFS
 
My wife shot a chipmonk on the inside window sill. Got the chipmonk AND the window pane. 22 pellet gun penetrated and got glass.
 
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