What is the DUMBEST thing that you ever did out shooting or hunting?

30+ years ago,I'd hunted small game all my life and just beginning to think about deer hunting. I was just old enough to buy a brand new Winchester 30-30 and cartridges. Got it home and took it out of the box to examine everything. I was sitting in the living room indian style with the Winchester in my lap loading and unloading it. Man it was so cool working the lever and ejecting the shells. Worked the lever until no more shells ejected and then tried again. Empty. Safe.
Pulled the trigger. BOOM! Smoke filled the room, I was in shock, my ears were ringing, my new bride was screaming. It was chaos for a few seconds but nobody was injured thank God.
The bullet went right through the living room wall and
through the exterior siding. Luckily I didn't have any neighbors and the bullet went into a hill across the road.
 
Shot my dad in the back of the leg with a BB gun when I was 10, I'm 40 now and can still feel the belt.

Or it could have been the time when I shot one of our 400 pound calves when I thought it was a coyote. I was really proud of the shot though, pitch black at midnight with one shot from a Winchester 94 30-30.

I learn everything the hard way.

hunter966
 
Luckily most of mine happened when I was young and all I was armed with was a bb gun and learned from those mistakes so I didnt do it when I had a rifle or shotgun in my hands.I ruined several bb guns,shot some windows out,had a bb gun war but luckily I learned from my mistakes and I havent ever pulled a stupid stunt with a firearm since.I have done some stupid things while I was hunting just not with guns.Mostly with vehicles and such.
The most recent idiotic thing I can think of that I did happened last Spring.I didnt envolve a gun but me and a friend of mine were coming back from turkey hunting when it happened.Well we were going down this dirt road that I have probably been down a total of one time in my life,well twice now.It was pretty dark out by the time we got to this point in or journey back home and I can only put my head lights on dim,do to a pheasant breaking one of my bright lights out and the other just burning out by itself.Anyway I was going about 60 or 65 down this dirt road which is pretty stupid in my opinion but I didnt think so at the time.If I would have remembered I was heading for a DEAD END road I would have,but I didnt think about that at the time.About the time that I did think of it I asked my huntin buddy "Hey is that dead end right here or further on down the road?"as I slowed down,he says "Its another two miles down the road,keep goin".So I kept goin and his prediction was off by about a mile exactly.A mile down the road my dim lights hit the yellow road sign that had arrows pointed in opposite directions and i needed to make a right turn somethin fierce.I had to make the quickest decision of my life.Either keep going straight and take out the road sign,the fence behind that and the tree behind that or try to make the right hand turn that was at a 90 degree angle going 60mph and getting closer to 0mph by the second.So I did my best at recreating something out of the movie Tokyo Drift and I did pretty good I guess.I went down into the ditch and when both of the tires on the drivers side which is where I was,both tires on the passenger side came up off of the ground and my idiotic friend comes up out of his seat and lands on me and luckily his 210pound frame wasnt enough weight to push the truck on over.Instead the passenger side wheels slammed back down onto the ground and my idiotic huntin buddy that cant judge distances very well slammed back into his seat.He's a real character and never shuts up and hes never serious about anything.Thats the one and only time I've ever seen a serious expression on his face.He looked at me and said....."Did we make a mess?"I looked at him and I do beleive he was fixin to cry and I just busted up laughin.To alot of people that situation wouldnt have been funny but to me it was hillarious. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I dropped him off at his house and laughed all the way home.I got alot more but thats one of the best ones I've got. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I'll start mine off Terentino style. "Dude, you just shot me in the $%^#*^@ foot!"



































Disclaimer.......No, we weren't drunk. No alcohol all day.


Alright, when I was 17, (32 now) some buddies and I had gone out hunting rabbits. Towards the end of the day, we were heading back to town, and I got my dad's truck severely stuck in the mud. (Flooded his diesel truck $) Well, boredom had set in after a while, and somehow we thought it would be funny to splatter eachother with mud. My buddy was the instigator, but somehow my dumb a$$ followed suit. Had I just left well enough alone, I wouldn't have had to wait 2 hours for a ride to the hospital. Let me tell you. A shot to the foot from a .22 feels a lot like a sledgehammer to the foot, although there was no pain. It was just a lot of instant pressure, then nothing. The pain didn't appear until after surgery where I had to have the bullet removed from my foot. I still have the bullet to this day. (gotta find it)
Needless to say, it was a MAJOR learning experience, and probably my stupidest moment, but figured I'd better chime in. We did get in trouble with the law, although they were'nt too hard on us.

Anyway, that's my only story. And wish I didn't have it to tell.
 
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