re: Bad hunting accidents

Just being young, careless, and getting in a hurry. Grew up with gun safety drilled into my head and made a mistake that caught up with me.

Last group was coming in, got ready to shoot and they turned just as we were getting ready to call the shot. Sat my gun down on a big stump and started getting my stuff ready to go. Ended up on the opposite side of the stump, where my bag was. Ducks came back and I grabbed the gun by the stock with the barrel pointing the wrong way. Trigger grabbed on the ragged part of the stump and the gun went off. So in short, I grabbed a loaded gun, without the safety on, by the barrel and blew myself up.

Learned a valuable lesson the hard way that day.