Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Well, yesterday was a first for me. Granted, I haven't been hunting as long as some of you guys but I never thought I would be putting my life on a line! Yesterday I went hunting on public land. My climbing stand was right beside the river. I had only been sitting there for about an hour when I thought I heard a deer walking up to my right. All of a sudden 3 shotgun blasts came at me. I almost jumped out of the tree! The pellets were hitting all around me. They were hitting my tree, the leaves, and the water in front of me. Two guys (neither of them wearing camo or orange) were shooting at squirrels or something and I was in their path!!! Needless to say I yelled at them and told them I was sitting in front of them. They never said a word. They came into view, saw where I was (waving at them) and went back into the woods. I was SO MAD!!!! I didn't get a deer. I figured all the noise probably ruined that. Then my husband came to pick me up and had a NICE 8 point on the bow of the boat. And no, before anyone asks, I do NOT look like a squirrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Wow that is some scary stuff! Im sure glad you didnt get a direct hit! People out there in this world that JUST DONT CARE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Public land can be some of the best and the worst places to hunt. Glad you're ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? wow, thats scary i have never been shot at... yet hopefully i never will be. up here that is basically unheard of. the only accidental shootings usually are the people that don't know what a safety is on their gun, and they end up shooting themselves in the foot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Sure have. Most recent, had some duck hunters across the river fire in the air and the pellets from their shots fell out over my head hitting the few leaves that were still on the oak tree around my head. Back several years ago had an idiot who lived next to us shooting a rifle into the bottom(my property) from a hill where his house is located, I was sitting in a ladder stand in the bottom. There was nothing in the field or in the woods in the direction he was shooting. I turned on the backside of the tree until about 30 minutes after the last shot was fired. That guy and I had several run ins in the time he lived there. That idiot got arrested not too long back in Florida for attempted murder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Glad your ok ,,,,,,, that was close ,,,, Yes i've been shot at, while hunting on private land once, i got a deer a little after sunset, so i was back to the truck around 8:30 am, keep in mind i'm on the logging road, i'm standing next to my truck and i hear someone start to shot, all of a sudden bullets start wizzing by me, yes they were close , i could hear the bullets go by , i yelled even blew my whistle which i keep around my neck until i leave, yes i had my orange hat and vest on, i layed down while the shooting was going on until it was over....... yeah i was lucky ,,,,,,,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeStandBowHunter Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Yeah but not by hunters Or should I say "Not by American Hunters". I been shot at a few times by our friends in the Mid-East. Good thing they have bad aim huh That sucks for you though. I'll tell you what, I can't tolarate to much more of getting shot at...had that been me I might of snapped and fired off a few rounds myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? [ QUOTE ] Sure have. Most recent, had some duck hunters across the river fire in the air and the pellets from their shots fell out over my head hitting the few leaves that were still on the oak tree around my head. Back several years ago had an idiot who lived next to us shooting a rifle into the bottom(my property) from a hill where his house is located, I was sitting in a ladder stand in the bottom. There was nothing in the field or in the woods in the direction he was shooting. I turned on the backside of the tree until about 30 minutes after the last shot was fired. That guy and I had several run ins in the time he lived there. That idiot got arrested not too long back in Florida for attempted murder. [/ QUOTE ] Well, I wonder who that guy was. We had one of our shooting houses get shot full of holes a few years ago. Thank God no one was sitting in it or they would have looked like swiss cheese! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? [ QUOTE ] Yeah but not by hunters Or should I say "Not by American Hunters". I been shot at a few times by our friends in the Mid-East. Good thing they have bad aim huh That sucks for you though. I'll tell you what, I can't tolarate to much more of getting shot at...had that been me I might of snapped and fired off a few rounds myself [/ QUOTE ] Well, I am glad those non-Americans had bad aim too. I just couldn't believe these guys were shooting at just anything. To tell you the truth, I don't think they even knew where they were. They weren't too sure of their surroundings when they tried to leave. And when I finally got a good look at them...you could tell they were teenagers. Oh well. The Lord was watching over me, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Been sprinkled several times with a shotgun and popped once with a .22, all unintentional. I've had 2 pellets from the shotgun that I had my buddy dig out of my shoulder and arm with a pocket knife. The .22 was a ricochet that hit me square in the chest but didn't penetrate. It did leave a really nice bruise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? And you're nickname is "Bullet"? "Lucky"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
too_pointer Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Yes, had the "rain" of shotgun pellets on me several times while duck hunting, also had the stump I was leaning against blow apart on me during the first day of deer rifle season here. I found out real soon, the guy was sighting his rifle in. That was the scary one too_pointer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Now THAT was close! Did you have to change clothes after that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
too_pointer Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? LOL, no huntin, but the guy I caught shooting did. He packed up and went back to whereever he was hatched !! too_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? No I have never been shot at...but my buddy was shot 2 years ago....dumb son of a ..... thought he was a bear..30.30 in the leg at 50 yards,He is a very lucky guy to be alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Some people are just ignorant. A friend of mine had a cousin who shot and killed a hunter in a treestand that he thought was a Giant Red-Headed woodpecker. When the hunter turned his head, the guy on the ground shot him. Killed him instantly. Now THAT is stupid. How do you mistake a human being for a bird???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superguide Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? My neighbors scope me about 10X a year lol-great hunters they are-needless to say when i sit and wait for deer I take up a defensive position. What we really need is blaze orange bulletproof vests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Not unlike Treestandbowhunter, I have not been shot at by other hunters or even Americans, just a few bad shot Cubans while I was in Grenada, and as he said GLAD they were bad aims.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Yep. Twice. First time was with a "buddy." My buddy's dog jumped a rabbit and it ran right in between us, well, he was about 40 yards away, but shot in my direction. I caught 2 or 3 pellets in the legs, and 2 or 3 in the chest. None of them broke skin (thanks to the heavy duck I was wearing), but my legs got welted up pretty good. He missed the rabbit, but I got it. I told him he should really watch where he shoots and showed him the welts on my legs. He couldn't believe that he shot me, but the evidence was clear. The other time I was just peppered. We were guests at my buddy's buddy's duck hunting marsh. We sat in one blind, and another blind was about 100 yards away or so. Well, the other blind had a flock of ducks fly over, their shots rained down on us. I told the owner (who didn't like me for whatever reason) that we got peppered. He basically told me I was full of it. The next day, the owner was sitting where we were sitting and he got peppered by another group that was sitting where he was the previous day. After the hunting that day, I heard the owner tell the care taker of the property "Yogi, I think we need to move that one blind, we got peppered today." I felt like saying "I told you so," but I didn't, but that was the last time we hunted there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Yep, Tominator shot at me this past archery season. Just like everything else he shot at though....he missed. -----> <----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Apparently more of ya'll have been shot at than I thought! I like the idea of the blaze orange bullet-proof vests! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? I've been peppered a few times dove hunting and had shot rain down on me while duck hunting but no other shotgun instances. I had 2 instances deer hunting when I head shots going by me. The 1st was a slug going through branches over me. The 2nd was some idiot unloading his gun shooting at a deer on our side of the property line. I hugged the tree as best I could while I heard 5 rifle bullets zing by close enough to me to make my hair stand on end. I was real tempted to return fire but I didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckbuster11 Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? Yup, but not while hunting. I cant remember if I was hanging stands or just scouting but I was in the woods on my way back to the car when somebody nearby started unloading. I dont know what they were doing but whatever they were shooting was either semi or fully automatic. I got behind a tree a curled up in a ball while tons of shots went whizzing around me, banging off trees and knocking branches down on to me. Thats about all I can remember of that, I think I was around 14 or 15 at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? It's a wonder we don't hear about more "accidental" hunting deaths. I believe this: If you can't see ALL of it...don't shoot ANY of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest benelli_man_84 Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Re: ever been shot at? I have been shot at on 2 occasions. Once on a public lake duck hunting. Lake Seminole in South Ga, was where it happenned. A bunch of idiotic florida boys were lighting us up from the spray. We called the game warden to them and got them removed from the lake. If it was an accident, I could understand once or twice, but they did it all morning even we motored over to them to politely ask them to stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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