re: Has anyone from the OT ever been shot? A little graphic on pg. 2

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helicopter ride

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I'm praying you have good health insurance.

Do I know you?

Woods aren't dangerous.

I was duck hunting with a buddy off in a slough off of the red river and my buddy shot me....I got hit 10 times total...6in my right leg, 2 in my left leg, one in the chest and one in my left hand...out of the 10 bb's that hit me only 3 went in...which they are currently still in me and that was 14 years ago.

Kinda funny story to that...went to the hospital and when we walked up to the reception desk they lady told me to hold on...I told her "ma'am, I just got shot by a 12 gauge shotgun and I'm not hold on!!!" She freaked out...there were about 15 people waiting to be seen and I went back first lol.

For a while there I had problems sleeping because I would think about what if I got hit in the face, it still bothers me sometimes thinking about it today.
Out of the 3 bb's in me 2 are in my right leg and re really close to my nerve that runs down the center of my leg...occasionally if I scratch my leg or bump it on something I can feel the top of my foot tingle...which is an odd feeling

I got peppered when I was dove hunting. It stung and bruised me but that was it.

I was also drying my socks and shoes by a fire when my friend threw a shotgun shell in it and it went off. A piece of rock or lead is still in between two of my toes.

nothing serious though

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We were done hunting and driving out. We had taken off our orange. We saw some hogs and bailed out chasing them. Some bad decisions on my part put me parallel with him and I had on a black shirt. He was shooting at hogs in between us and when they got even with me he mistook me for one of them through some thick brush. All happened in about 45 seconds. More mistakes on my side than his.

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This is a prefect example of why you never fire your rifle unless you've 100% clearly identified what you're shooting at and have a clear field of view between you and your target. If you see something moving in some thick brush you wait and either let it walk or wait for it to come out in the clear.

You're very lucky to be alive. I've used a 7mm mag for years which packs a bit more of a punch than a 7mm-08, but still is similar. The wound cavity these rounds create are just devastating and usually immediately fatal.

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frick hunting..

too many accidents and they are usually bad.. real bad.

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Yes there are dangers but you're more likely to be killed driving home this after noon than you are to be killed while hunting.

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I think our DA is on the take in Livingston/ Tangipoha

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I've gotten peppered by lead shot while rabbit hunting. Dug it out of my wrist when I was 13. You're lucky to be alive, man. Glad you're okay.

T4, you were really lucky. None of the dozen or so animals my youngest son has shot in the neck with that caliber walked off. Best wishes healing.

My freshman year at LSU several guys I worked with and I were hunting off the Amite, and one of them shot at moving bushes he thought was a rabbit but turned out to be me. I was sitting cross legged with my gun in my lap. There were 17 pellets in the stock that would have otherwise likely affected my ability to father children. Highest impact was several in the collarbone, but none to the face. Doctors counted somewhere around 150-160 pellets in me, not counting a few near the surface they dug out right then. Messed up my right hand ring finger and tendons on my left foot, but overall, I was pretty lucky. Still carry well over a hundred #6 lead pellets in me-always causes a stir during x ray sessions.

Guy that shot me was pretty freaked out, and didn't hunt for years. And I became an advocate for hunter's orange (this was back when we hunted in flannel shirts or olive army surplus jackets-Bill Jordan was likely still in puberty. So yeah, my sons went to hunter safety classes before they shot anything above a Red Ryder