Author Topic: Been shot at? (Read 2531 times)

Kanth · « **Reply #30 on:** April 16, 2002, 08:16:30 PM »

When I was little, my father liked to shoot his guns in our backyard. When one ricochet'd off the brick fence wall thing, it caught me in the face.

Kanthy

eskimo2 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 16, 2002, 08:30:23 PM »

When I was in high school, 3 friends and I were walking along some railroad tracks about 100 yards from a highway (in Alaska). All of a sudden we started hearing pops and it sounded as if supersonic bees were buzzing by. Dirt flew up in front of us and I could hear the rounds zipping through the tall brush behind us. Some nut had unloaded a 20 (semi-auto) round clip at us from the passenger side of a truck on the highway as they sped by. All of my friends hit the dirt right away, and dumb-ass me stood staring at the highway, tring to get a vehicle and shooter description.

We called the cops afterwards and they said that they had gotten several reports like this for the past hour-ish along the highway. There's lots of nuts in Alaska. I remember driving from Anchorage to Homer (240 miles?) and looking for even one road sign without a bullet hole in it. Didn't see one.

eskimo

midnight Target · « **Reply #32 on:** April 16, 2002, 08:37:16 PM »

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Originally posted by MrBill
My cute little George Washington necklace has 3 oak leaf clusters. Bummer.

Well ~~to you MrBill~~

Bluefish · « **Reply #33 on:** April 16, 2002, 09:13:17 PM »

While walking along a lake with some .22s loaded w/ LRs, my numbskull friends (we were about 13 at the time) decided to shoot a couple clips straight up in the air to see where on the lake the descending rounds would impact; the answer was "very close to the place where they were fired" (and at pretty near initial muzzle velocity too).

Some years later (think it was the mid-'80s) some hostile bugger blew out the rear driver side window of my car with a .38 round. I never found out who or why (never even saw the shooter, but that's L.A. for you).

Churchill to the contrary, I didn't find either incident exhilerating in the least.

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #34 on:** April 16, 2002, 10:44:25 PM »

Hey Texas guys, In California we have road rage that sometimes results in gunplay. I'm curious about rather or not you guys in Texas have people squaring off over driving altercations like they do here or rather if the legality of carrying loaded handguns makes people more polite. My guess is that having the legality of carrying guns in your car makes other motorists more polite.

Nefarious · « **Reply #35 on:** April 17, 2002, 12:10:16 AM »

I've had guns pointed at me, Trespassing In West Virginia. Trailer folk don't f**k around. I've seen them pointed at me but luckily never fired upon.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #36 on:** April 17, 2002, 12:17:14 AM »

I do know someone well who has been shot at and hit numerous times...
In WWII my father-in-law flew the RP-63, stateside. This was an armor plated P-63. His job was to mock attack B-17s (Axis style) so that gunners in training could get some live fire experience. The gunners would shoot 30 cal. machine guns with frangible ammunition at his plane. When they scored hits, a light in the spinner would light up and a hit counter on the instrument panel would record the hit so that he could give feed-back over the radio to the gunner. Bill said that he always knew when the instructor was demonstrating because he would get nailed right away.

eskimo

Swoop · « **Reply #37 on:** April 17, 2002, 12:31:12 AM »

Been shot at by a 12 gauge.......but either the farmer was a bleedin awful shot or he was just tryin to scare us. Seemed pretty mad at the time though.......

Been shot at from close range by a .38, only a blank round though. I was 13 and trick or treating with about 6 others, this guy disappeared back inside his house, comes back out again and says "You did say trick or treat didnt you?" and fired. It was so quick no-one had time to panic before he shot, 2 of my mates toejam themselves and I blinked and missed it.....and then realised I'd gone deaf.

majic · « **Reply #38 on:** April 17, 2002, 12:40:20 AM »

"when I had a lil dejavu. "

Oh god, not another one!

Leslie · « **Reply #39 on:** April 17, 2002, 06:50:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Nefarious
I've had guns pointed at me, Trespassing In West Virginia. Trailer folk don't f**k around. I've seen them pointed at me but luckily never fired upon.

That brings back a memory from the past, Nefarious. Back when I was in college, I worked one summer as a door-to-door book salesman in Grundy, Virginia. My route often took me on foot up into the hollers, where I met many different people.

Most of these people had no access to bookstores, and so they did not consider salesmen a nuisance. I met quite a few who were waiting to purchase the books (children's dictionary and Volume Library...a 5" thick, 5000 page encyclopedia).

One fellow I met ordered the children's dictionary, for himself it turned out, because at 27 he wanted to learn how to read. And he paid up front for it, cash money....$21.00. About two months later it was time to deliver the books. I had met his mom and dad during my first visit, and they remembered me...but Clarence wasn't home, he was up the holler at his brother's place.

"How far is that?", I ask. "Too far to walk, maybe about a mile or so up that goat trail over yonder. It's mighty rough, but if you like, you can ride my son's QA-50 up there. Or Johnny here will give you a ride up there." The boy went first and checked out the trail, then came back and rode me up there.

If you can picture the two of us on a mini-bike riding up the goat trail on a steep incline, no less... We get to the top and I walk up to a trailer with two obviously drunk fellows kicked back on the porch, one of them eyeing me suspiciously and waving a Ruger semi-auto .22 at me. Before he could say a word, I asked if Clarence was there. Good thing Clarence was there, for my sake. He told 'em who I was. He probably saved my life LOL. Turns out these good "ol boys were making shinny (most likely for personal consumption) and testing out a fresh batch. I even got to sample some, and got an invite to dinner, down the hill...which I graciously accepted.

Les

hblair · « **Reply #40 on:** April 17, 2002, 07:50:15 AM »

Was there an in-bred looking feller inside the screen porch playing his banjo leslie?

Gunthr · « **Reply #41 on:** April 17, 2002, 07:52:31 AM »

1988. Night time response to a domestic disturbance...

On arrival, we look into a lighted kitchen window and see a naked w/m inside the home, standing over a woman seated at the kitchen table. He has a handgun stuck into the woman's mouth. Her mouth is mangled, bleeding profusely... he is yelling at her, slurring his speech... making her eat the gun.

Suddenly, she bolts from his grasp and runs out of the kitchen - out of view - and the subject chases after her. We can no longer see them, so we run for the front door. We try to get in the front door, but its locked. We hear shots fired on the other side of the door, and the woman is screaming.

We hit the front door with our shoulders and crash through on the second attempt as the subject fires two rounds through the door, missing us.

On the other side, we find the man and woman now fighting over the gun and we can't shoot. I hit him over the head with my Kel light. This incapacitates him, and we handcuff him. He needs 14 stitches. It took me a while to come down from that.

I never fired my weapon at anyone, though I've had it out many times.

straffo · « **Reply #42 on:** April 17, 2002, 07:59:39 AM »

stitches ?

hu ?

is that what is to close wound called "points de suture" here ?

Gunthr · « **Reply #43 on:** April 17, 2002, 08:02:37 AM »

Bon Jour, Straffo -

Yes, sutures

hblair · « **Reply #44 on:** April 17, 2002, 08:05:13 AM »

Wow gunthr, scarey story there.

Glad you're ok.