Got Shot Today!

Glad you were unscathed!!! You are like an old Gander....them pellets just bounce right off!! I took about 8 pellets to the side and arm and I saw it happen in slow motion... Just enough time for me to turn just enough as not to take it in the chest... My heavy clothing prevented any penetration. Just of bunch of welts... I was not happy to say the least. For a split second I wanted to shoot that sob back, but I calmed just enough to rip his ass instead...:mad:
 
Crazy! I'm going in the morning. I was about to email a buddy, but I think I'm going alone! Glad your OK and thanks for the safety reminder!
Dave
 
Geez

When the group grows, so does the danger. Our group of five hunts for the first three days, and we have a great time. I have to admit though, that when they go home and I hunt alone for a week, it is a lot less stressful and more enjoyable. Hilly terrain hunts scare me the most. Glad all the upper body work paid off and pellets ricocheted. I've been sprayed a number of times while blocking, but nothing like what happened to you. I usually leave the glasses in the truck, but no more.
 
Dang...I'm surprised by how many have been shot. I get nervous hunting in big groups, and probably let more birds fly away than I need to. But the shooting window is so small, and surveying my background is too important.

I agree, hunting alone or with one or two people is sooo much better.
 
Dakotazeb said:
First time in over 50 years of hunting that I caught 2 pellets flush. Both hit my abdomen just below the rib cage. I was wearing a hunting shirt and an UnderArmour t-shirt. The pellets didn't penetrate my clothing but one split the skin and drew some blood. Hurt like a mother. Thought I was hit by more than 2 pellets. My friend and I were walking the edge of a slough back to the road. The third member of our party was on the road when a rooster flushed from the ditch. He thought the bird was clear of us and fired. I'm very thankful I didn't take any in the face or maybe an eye. :eek: I had been wearing my safety glasses but the last time back to the vehicle I took them off and forgot to put them back on. I'll have those safety glasses on from now on.

So let this experience be a reminder to everyone to be careful in the field and wear those safety glasses. I know a guy that was hunting near Aberdeen, a number of years back, that took a pellet in the eye. The pellet went up into his brain and he suffered some permanent brain damage.
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Just curious, don't mean to criticize, but: Were you wearing any blaze orange?
 
Blaze orange cap and a Bob Allen upland shirt with blaze orange sleeves and blaze orange on the left shoulder patch. I am a big proponent of wearing blaze orange and a lot of it. But in the heat of the moment someone might not see you if you were orange from head to toe.
 
What is the punishment for shooting someone? Do you never hunt with them or do they get beat?

We were hunting last year and. Could hear bbs all around me...we got the hell out of there. It's scary stuff and I hope I never get hit with any.
 
Did he get the bird?? I mean, did the bird soak up majority of the shot or did he miss and send it all your way??

Glad you are ok.
 
Good to hear you are bullet proof. ;)

Last time I hunted on friend's farm near Alpina, one of the teens loaded his black auto in front of the barn among a dozen family and friends and dropped the bolt on a heavy load with the muzzle aimed at the side of his friend's head 3 feet away. Nearly made me sick just thinking about what could have happened.

Over the 15 or so years I hunted my friend's place, I've been hit with shot maybe half a dozen times. Most raining down, but one broke the skin on the back of my hand.
 
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Uncle Buck said:
Glad you came out all right. A pup I sold three years ago was shot and killed in Lyman County opening weekend while the owner was guiding. He and his wife are devastated. The dog was chasing a cripple when another bird got up and the shooters gun went off as he was raising it. Dog about 12 feet away. Safety off way to early obviously.

Be careful out there please!!!!
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I know an acquaintance that approaches a dog on point (he has no dogs) with his finger on the trigger, muzzle low, directly from behind the dog. I've only been around him at the hunt preserve we go to occasionally. I'm surprised the guides haven't straightened him out.

Muzzles high and shots up off the ground in the air. Please
 
Madison COunty said:
What is the punishment for shooting someone? Do you never hunt with them or do they get beat?

We were hunting last year and. Could hear bbs all around me...we got the hell out of there. It's scary stuff and I hope I never get hit with any.
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I can promise ya, the 2 guys who shot me, and the ones who shot at me while deer hunting, are no longer since that day hunting with me. It has been 15 or so years.;) But that's just me.
 
Dakotazeb said:
Blaze orange cap and a Bob Allen upland shirt with blaze orange sleeves and blaze orange on the left shoulder patch. I am a big proponent of wearing blaze orange and a lot of it. But in the heat of the moment someone might not see you if you were orange from head to toe.
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You did all you could to make yourself safe.
 
Always wear good shooting glasses and wear lots of orange. We had a guy who had an old, ratty camo/blaze orange hat and that was all he wore. It was so dirty the orange was about worn out. We told him either get a good orange hat and vest or sorry but you'll have to hunt with other guys. He took it well and the rest of us feel much better.
 
Shooting glasses goes without saying. Exercise some some self control and seeing what's beyond the bird when it flushes. Something is in your line of sight you simply don't shoot or wait till the bird is clear. It's something you have to train yourself to do, so that it becomes automatic.

When I was 13 I got excited when a bird flushed one time and shot the bird. Little did i know until a little bit later that my uncle was standing beyond the bird, right in my line of sight about 100 or so yards away and he took a couple pellets in the neck. My dad read me the riot act and I felt terrible about it. My uncle, god rest his soul... was pretty cool about it when I apologized. :eek:
 
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crockett said:
Crazy! I'm going in the morning. I was about to email a buddy, but I think I'm going alone! Glad your OK and thanks for the safety reminder!
Dave
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This is an almost unbelievable coincidence, but just after posting my response to this thread (above), expressing my surprise at how many people have been shot, I DID go alone that day, and again alone today. And I got shot anyways! I met a couple of guys coming towards me from another cover along the riverbank. So I waved and they waved back. I turned my back on them (thank goodness because it had clouded over, and I had taken off my sunglasses!). I had a blaze shirt, a blaze and waxed cotton strap vest, and a blaze cap on. Anyhow, just as I turned my back on them I heard a rooster flush. I bent down to snag my dog by the collar so that she wouldn't go to 'help' them. Just at that moment I heard the shot and felt a sting in the back of my arm and the side of my head! Holy smokes! I hollered at them and they came running over, apologizing and making sure I was OK. I was pretty angry, but what can you do? No broken skin, just welts (I'd estimate about 80-90 yards?). The guy who shot was pale and shaky - very experienced hunter who was SURE that the bird was high and well clear of me when he shot. Clearly rattled him nearly as much as it rattled me. Anyhow - I stopped and got a pair of clear safety glasses to add to my vest, for those cloudy days...
 
Try the yellow safety glasses. They really brightened up those cloudy overcast days. Glad you are okay. The spot where I got hit Sunday is still a little tender.
 
Wow! All these stories make me nervous about deer opener this weekend! I have never been shot or shot at, and I hope my good fortune continues.

The last couple years my family has been a game farm pheasant hunt. I'm technically the second youngest in the group, but I'm the host and we use my dogs so I give the safety talk. I always emphasize that muzzles are up. Especially because my relatives are primarily deer hunters.
 
Too many people think it will never happen to them. But it does happen to people, as evidenced by the stories told here.

I get real nervous hunting with people I haven't hunted with. So much so that I turn down a lot of invitations or requests.

My best man and I no longer hunt together. He's just a darned greenhorn who doesn't get it. Showed up all on cammo the last time he hunted with me. And then went off half cocked all excited and stupid. his antics too long a story to tell here, but end result I cussed him out good and he didn't talk to me going on a year. We do other things together, but I don't even bring up hunting.

The guy shooting a dog on point was hunting with his safety off, I'll bet my next paycheck. I hunted with a guy like that one time. Found out he was hunting with the safety off and I left. Never hunted with those guys again.

Life is too short people! Don't hunt with idiots and be safe out there!
 
Roaniecowpony said:
I know an acquaintance that approaches a dog on point (he has no dogs) with his finger on the trigger, muzzle low, directly from behind the dog. I've only been around him at the hunt preserve we go to occasionally. I'm surprised the guides haven't straightened him out.

Muzzles high and shots up off the ground in the air. Please
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Good form right here!
You can't tell, but his finger stays off the trigger and safety's on until the bird flies.:)
DHT
 
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