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Joe Boleo Super Member
Joined: Dec 25, 2006 Posts: 427 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: Anyone here ever been shot? |
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Got dusted with #6 shot at long range whan some city-bred small game hunters put up a box barrage when a pheasant took flight. Take care...
Joe
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Bushmaster wrote: |
I've been shot at and missed...Thank God... |
Same as Bushy.....my fieldcraft was a little better than their weapon handling skills. The sound of rounds "cracking" around your ears is something you never...and I mean NEVER....forget.
However, like One Eight Nine Five Ess Ess and Tracker, I am extremely careful who accompanies me when hunting. The slightest doubt about their firearm handling skills and they don't go with me.
You and I seem to have a lot in common Bushy....wonder if we are related in some way.
Cheers Vince
_________________ Cheers, Vince
Illegitimi non carborundum
(Never let the bastards grind you down)
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
"Nulla Si Fa Senza Volonta."
(Without Commitment, Nothing Gets Done)
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gelandangan Super Member
Joined: May 07, 2006 Posts: 6396 Location: Sydney Australia
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Miles City, Montana
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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_________________ My 1911 is more effective than your 911. |
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Barber? What's that? Something to hunt with or maybe fish with?
Related? Don't think so...One of us is too ugly to be related...'course there was my great, four times removed, uncle.....Naw....
_________________ I have one nerve left and yer standin' on it...
DEMOCRACY Two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch...
LIBERTY A well armed sheep contesting the outcome of the vote... |
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Win75 Rookie Member
Joined: Dec 09, 2007 Posts: 11 Location: SouthEast Missouri
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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I did not get hit but my car did. Two .22 caliber holes in the outer shell of the door. About midnight just off of Papin St. in St. Louis around 10 years ago.
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SwampFox Super Member
Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 1040 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Yes, several times. Once with a 45ACP, once with a 22 Rifle and a couple of bird field incidents. I have also had numerous glancing blows and a few rifle and handgun bullet jackets stick into me. I spent 20 plus years as a range master, so you will pick up a stray here and there if you are working with ractive targets.
Ed
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Shot at yes.
Hit no, except for a piece of 9mm jacket out of an MP5 in the face coming back off a steel target 40yds away.
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mikeleduc Member
Joined: Jan 23, 2008 Posts: 69 Location: Phoenix, AZ since 1972
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Knock on wood, I've never been on the receiving end. Seen lots of gunshot victims though. Some were pretty amazing. I saw a guy that was shot five times in the chest with a 38, he was hitchhiking and a guy stopped like he was going to give him a ride and shot him instead. When I got to the hospital he was doing fine not one of the bullets hit anything vital. They released him two hours later.
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Yer kiddin' Mike...Geeezzz...I'm changin' my house gun to a bigger calibre...Lucky man...
_________________ I have one nerve left and yer standin' on it...
DEMOCRACY Two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch...
LIBERTY A well armed sheep contesting the outcome of the vote... |
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d_hoffman Super Member
Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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I've had a number of close calls but didn't get hit. In situations like that it's my belief that it's better to give than to receive.
_________________ The best form of gun control...aim straight!!! |
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SwampFox Super Member
Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 1040 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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A-men brother Dave.
Ed
_________________ The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
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WildHorse Member
Joined: Feb 17, 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Once or twice across the pond in the late sixties, by those clever little folks who could dissapear in a second.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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roklok Super Member
Joined: Aug 11, 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot? |
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Trace Adkins (the singer) was shot through the heart and both lungs by his wife with a .38 and lived to tell about it. That said, the .38 is a viable choice for a defensive round with a good hollow point bullet especially in a +P loading. Most of its bad reputation comes from lead round nose and FMJ loadings. I am a police officer and investigated a shooting a couple months back, individual was shot with a .45 Colt revolver with lead round nose. Bullet entered base of neck and exited shoulder. Exit wound was tiny, physician could not believe that it was a .45 caliber wound. Slow moving handgun rounds with a round nose profile sort of "wedge" their way through tissue without causing much damage, leaving a relatively small hole in their wake, unless bone is contacted to expand the projectile.
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