Ever had a bullet go by your head?

[TDH]

I guess that's why we try to teach young people the safe use of firearms. When I was a boy our right of passage was to go hunting on Thanksgiving Day with the men and older boys. Many a young lad walked back with an empty shotgun and a lump on their head. Only one that I know of walked back without the shotgun in hand and he never went again. Uncles and Dad's were not shy of correcting the mishandling of said firearm. And no I never got thumped.

[cipherk98]

Passed some people packing up from hunting today in a field near some woods while I was driving... as I started to go by I noticed one sweeping the party with his rifle, then he immediately aimed it across the road where I was driving! Furious to say the least. Really disappointing that one appeared to be a child/young teen with them. Like car safety, if you don't practice gun safety around your kids when they are young they are going to have bad habits that could themselves or someone hurt.

[browningautorifle]

Many have the habit of glassing with their scope instead of a pair of binos...

[TDH]

But the smarter ones don't have their finger on the trigger

[browningautorifle]

But the smarter ones don't have their finger on the trigger

You can't tell which of them is glassing you when you look through binos and see them...one can only hope.

[imntxs554]

Yes...and it's a FHS !!!....also been Rained on a few times during Dove Season at the Ranch.

[TDH]

There is a state wildlife area less than four miles from where I grew up in north central Ohio and every year they stock young pheasants. I remember my first hunt there at 12. We parked on the access road got out and readied the dogs. As we started down and across the first field we had several birds go up. That's when the clowns on the road above us started shooting over our heads at the birds we just kicked up. I've seen it happen again and again as I continued to hunt that place growing up.

[Richard Hare]

Back home on driven pheasant shoots, I started off as a beater. As birds were shot coming towards the guns, it was very common for the spent shot to rain down on us. No-one bothered about it. we just didn't look up to See it coming down!

Grand days those, back in the early 70's. The od bloke got sent home, but most were brought up right. "A Father's advice" was instilled in most before they ever took up the gun. Even as a kid, I could never actually aim my cap-gun at anyone when playing Cowboys and Indians!................used to aim wide. Just the way we were brought up.

[TDH]

One last question about the thread. Do mortar shells and AK 47 small arms fire count?

[browningautorifle]

AK 47 small arms fire

Ever had a bullet go by your head

Let's see...