I have been shot at and returned fire! (LONG)
It was about 6 yrs. ago and I was deer hunting during the MI firearm season. The idiot doing the shooting, was intentionally trying to hit me!
I know it was intentional because he was yelling for me to leave his property, and as the property I was on was at least 800yds. away from his line and owned by my grandfather...I stayed put.
The problem with this is I was in a blind about the size of a portajohn.
His first shot peppered the door of the blind with buckshot...thankfully he was about 100 yds. away and the shot only caught in the door.
At this point I ask him as I am outside the blind with the entire blind between his shot and my self,(I hoped) just what in the !@#$ he thought he was doing. When he proceeded to fire again, thus turning my blind into something resembling a wooden strainer. At this point the only cover available was a stand of trees 200yds away, which would place me in a 20-30 proximity to the BG.
Not only am I scared beyond beleif I am good an mad as well, I scream for him to stop shooting and let me go. He instead fires two more times! Now I am not mad, in my mind I must fight for my life. I fire the first slug out of my 12 ga. in his direction and he stops, looks about 5 yds to his left at the dust cloud and fires in my direction for a fifth time.
I don't know how intelligent my next thought was but here it is:
"Your 15 if you want to live to 16 fire back."
At this point I unload the remaining 4 shells in my 12ga. semi in his direction missing him completely....much to my releif.
At this point I take off at a deadbolt run, figuring if I'm out of shells so is he. So, I run and reload(Amazing what you can do without thinking isn't it?) I run the 500 or so yards to the grandparents house and in the calmest and cleanest english I can manage explain the situation.
We call the sheriff and he arrives, simultaneously another sheriff arrived at the neighbor/BG's house...Apparently he had called the police stating that I had shot 3 holes into his home!:barf: By this point I've had time to compose myself and stop shaking, and I walk the sheriff out and show him the remnants of the blind I was in and were exactly we were both standing.
Come to find out the BG was on drugs,(Crack) and had been declared criminally insane but was not taking his medication.
As if this new information was supposed to make me feel better.
Anyhow, the cops ruled my actions justified...and the BG did time in an asylum for 6 months and got probation for shooting at me.
They told me "He won't receive charges for attempted murder, because he was clinically insane at the time"
The officers told me to be more careful with the choice of background next time!
I told him at the time...surviving was of a greater concern than some property damage.