Hunter shot in Zachary

My uncle was shot in the leg, dove hinting in Lumberton NC.


I thought it was impossible….impossible to be shot by another human in broad daylight when I was seven years old.


But the lead is still in his calf, today.

My dad shot me while rabbit hunting years ago. The bb’s ricocheted railroad rocks and peppered me. Still have about 4 bb’s in me. Burned like hell.

Knowing the land it was on that doesn’t surprise me. Any place that backs up to a neighborhood is going to have poachers who will set up right across the property line.

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And you wear orange

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It amazes me the amount of guys that don’t wear orange when on their private property. I’m as much concerned about getting shot by a neighbor looking for a wounded deer as I am for a poacher.

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It amazes me

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Nothing surprises me anymore.

It’s almost worse with older fellas. They all think they know everything and rather than ask, they just do what they think is right.

I could tell some stories but I don’t feel like getting riled up on Xmas eve.

Put it this way, you can tell who has taken hunter safety or who absorbed at least 30% of it within seconds of seeing a man handle a firearm.

Most recently had a friend whip out an old rifle to show everyone and pointed it barrel ag no less than four of us

“What?! It’s unloaded!”

“More folks have been killed by unloaded guns than you think”


Then , saw a pic of an older fella driving a SxS with a kid in the front seat….the barrel of a .22 pointed UP at the kids face from the floorboard.

WTF

How did you hear this? I’ve been checking for updates but haven’t found anything. The fact he was shot in three places means it was either a shotgun or someone kept shooting til whatever it was stopped moving. I’m hoping it was a shotgun.

Anybody who reads the story of former LSU football player Matt Branch will never forget gun safety.

Half of this board makes fun of guys who think it’s stupid to get drunk while dove hunting

I’m definitely not surprised people get shot

I feel like “don’t worry it’s unloaded” is the same as “one beer won’t make me drunk”

Both statements are true. Problem is you are wrong the gun actually is loaded and other problem is you can’t stop at just one beer