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Leonard
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posted November 04, 2018 10:23 AM
Here's a man, 74 years old and puts a loaded shotgun presumably in the camper or maybe it's a Crew cab type of pickup, not sure, but it seems clear he left the gun pointing at the drivers direction with three large rowdy dogs to walk all over his gun? Borders on criminal stupidity, if you ask me?
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/hunter-shot-in-back-by-his-beloved-dog
Good hunting. El Bee
It's not like it never happened before, I recall several instances of the exact same scenario. Makes me sick, just thinking about it!
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Kokopelli
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posted November 04, 2018 03:35 PM
Apparently, 'common sense' is not a flower that grows in everyone's garden.
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Paul Melching
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posted November 05, 2018 04:12 AM
I seem to remember not long ago a duck hunter being taken out by his dog ! just sitting here shaking my head !
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booger
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posted November 09, 2018 07:19 AM
In the last 3 years in Kansas, we have had 2 fatalities where dogs shot their owners. Both were almost carbon copies of each other.
Owner puts loaded gun and dog in back of truck and goes up to the cab to get a cup of coffee. Both times the dog got their paw into the trigger guard and the gun went off.
Pretty freaky.
[ November 09, 2018, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: booger ]
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Leonard
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posted November 09, 2018 11:19 AM
What's freaky about these events is the totally alien attitude! I would no more put my dog and my well cared for firearm in close proximity as I would drag that firearm by a rope between stands hooked to my bumper. What sort of asshole would allow dog to walk on and sleep on a weapon pointing towards the cab where the operator sits? Is it lazy? Too busy to unload, never mind it's also against the law almost everywhere. Or, he doesn't give a shit about that Browning Citori? Or he thinks his dogs will be fair and lay on one side, just as aware as the owner that just as he wouldn't step on his gun, those playful pups would be careful too. Did I mention, loaded gun in vehicle? Too busy even to apply the safety? There is something so infuriating about such a preventable "accident"! These idiots, and I use the word advisedly, shouldn't be authorize to own a firearm, solely because it inevitably makes all hunters look bad! But only anti gun people would think so,in the first place. Gun people already know it's just about the dumbest thing you could do with a firearm and the idea wouldn't cross their mind in a million years.
So, how in the hell does it happen? It's not even a freak accident anymore, everybody has heard of a couple such events. Go figure! Grrr!
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: welp, I just remembered! I actually know somebody this happened to! Sorta. His dog stepped on the guns trigger and it went off, aimed at the glove box in the front seat where almost all glove boxes are located and a good thing there wasn't a passenger! Instead it blew the hell out of a box of 12 gauge shells in the glove box. I know this guy! I bought my green Dodge truck from him. And, I never even asked him the basic question, just shoving a loaded rifle in his camper shell. Oh, never mind, there is no solution to this kind of mental lapse.
[ November 09, 2018, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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booger
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posted November 09, 2018 01:20 PM
People are just really stupid...it only takes seconds to unload the firearm.
One of the fatalities we had 2 years ago was a deer hunter that was hunting by himself. He was getting ready to hunt, and was pulling the gun towards himself from behind the seat, MUZZLE FIRST, and the trigger got caught on something. Obviously the safety was off and he was rewarded with a .270 Winchester round through the sternum.
I hope he was DRT, as I can't imagine what it would be like to get hit with that at contact range and still have some brain activity left to realize what was going on.
[ November 09, 2018, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: booger ]
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