Uncle Willy
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Yeah I started hunting at about age ten and got my first 22 when I was about twelve - a single shot 22. I asked my dad why a single shot ( as I had dreams of a nifty pump or automatic ) and he said, "If you can't hit your target with the first shot you don't need a gun," and that's what he taught me to do. He drove a sixteen penny nail halfway into a fence post and had me back up until I could barely see the head of that nail. He said," When you can drive that nail into the post with one shot time after time then you're ready to go hunting. I used to knock down rabbits running wide open with that single shot. Back then we hunted to put meat on the table not as a sport or trophy hunt.
I remember in later years my dad and I stopped at a shooting gallery at the Pike in Long Beach, California and began to shoot. After some minutes the owner was begging us to leave before we wiped her out.
Sorry to hear about your dad. A real and totally unnecessary tragedy.I know more than one hunter who got nailed by a bush shooter. It was just a few years ago where back East somewhere a women was working in her yard and was shot and killed by a hunter. Guns are like cars - there are some people who shouldn't ever be allowed to own one. THese people get overwhelmed with "buck fever" and go nuts with a gun in their hand. One of the last times I went hunting I was wearing a sock cap with a round tassle on top and some yahoo in the woods shot it right off the top of my cap. I remember to this day the sound of that round going right across the top of my head - like an angry hornet on steroids.
Bill
I remember in later years my dad and I stopped at a shooting gallery at the Pike in Long Beach, California and began to shoot. After some minutes the owner was begging us to leave before we wiped her out.
Sorry to hear about your dad. A real and totally unnecessary tragedy.I know more than one hunter who got nailed by a bush shooter. It was just a few years ago where back East somewhere a women was working in her yard and was shot and killed by a hunter. Guns are like cars - there are some people who shouldn't ever be allowed to own one. THese people get overwhelmed with "buck fever" and go nuts with a gun in their hand. One of the last times I went hunting I was wearing a sock cap with a round tassle on top and some yahoo in the woods shot it right off the top of my cap. I remember to this day the sound of that round going right across the top of my head - like an angry hornet on steroids.
Bill
