et1
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Post by et1 on Jul 4, 2014 7:48:58 GMT -5
Hunters do have a sense of humor at times and when a humorous event occurs they are ready to share it. This story came from a friend of mine at work telling what his brother pulled off recently. I don’t remember the brother’s name but let’s assign the name Paul to simplify this story.
Paul was a practical joker who always liked a good prank and laugh. He also liked the outdoors and often would go out plinking with his deceased dad’s long barreled, single shot .22 with open sights. On this outing Paul and a friend came across another shooter who was taking down ground hogs for a farmer. Being cordial Paul went over to him to strike up a conversation and see how this other shooter was making out.
It wasn’t long to realize this shooter was only interested in bragging about his new rifle and equipment that cost a pretty penny that allowed him to shoot long range with extreme accuracy. The conversation with this fellow started to become obnoxious and Paul decided to yank his chain to get him cranked up. He came back with the rebuttal that it wasn’t necessary to spend all this money to do what the shooter was doing and getting to know your rifle along with good shooting skills would do the same job. This really got the conceited shooter excited and at that moment a ground hog was spotted a long ways off. The shooter wanting to get back at Paul told Paul to show him what he could do with that ground hog target if his .22 would even reach that far.
Paul thought for a moment and decided what the heck and gave it a go as this conversation wasn’t going anywhere and to give it a quick ending with a miss.
Free handed Paul shouldered the .22 and took aim. To emphasize what he was doing he raised the barrel and said elevation. Then swung about a foot left and said wind age before firing. All parties watched to see where the bullet would hit ground but instead to their amazement the ground hog fell over dead as a door nail.
Paul realizing what just happened turned to the shooter and struggling to keep a straight face simply stated “And that’s how it’s done”. At this point he walked away enjoying the moment leaving the shooter with his mouth wide open as to what just happened.
Paul afterwards admitted to his brother that the hardest thing he ever had to do was keep from bursting into laughter as he walked away. Heck hearing this story unfold I could help from bursting into laughter.
Ed
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gws
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Post by gws on Jul 4, 2014 10:02:46 GMT -5
:oA Really a good story!!  That tops anything I ever heard! Thanks for sharing!It did bring back a really fun memory of my older brother-in-law now deceased, that I haven't thought of in years. We did everything together from hunting, camping & shooting to motocross and boats. (...he was the one with all the expensive toys....I was the company.) I was driving his open jeep up a steep mountain jeep road far from civilization. He was loading a little .22 six gun he had just for fun. We were talking (joking about how good a shots we were, when a "whistling dog" stood on a rock in front of us in the road maybe 25 yards up. Ron said, "watch this" and he stuck the gun out the side window, arms length, wristing it around 90% to pointing it to the front but still good 2' feet sideways of his eyes, and pulled the trigger, blasting the poor critter off the rock. (while the jeep was still moving). Well I stopped the jeep shocked. Ron, also shocked, quickly recovered from the shock of it, and he blew the "smoke" from the barrel hollywood style, and said, "see?".
Yes we did grow up and we both learned to be a little more responsible after that. In those days you hardly ever saw another human in that high country. Sure miss him.
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et1
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Post by et1 on Jul 4, 2014 11:37:43 GMT -5
GWS
I really enjoyed your story and had a good laugh of how your older brother in-law responded. Thanks for sharing.
Yes as we grow older friends disappear as I lost my best friend last December. We fished and hunted together a lot and built many memories from days gone by. When a humorous memory is now triggered where we laughed together at some happening the laughter is also rekindled.
Ed
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Post by 7th on Jul 4, 2014 18:40:33 GMT -5
One lesion from this: know when to call it quits. I was shooting a gun I had built back in 91: a great shooting L1A1 (inch pattern FN-FAL), I had spotted for a guy with an M1A and he hit some pop cans way out there 4 out of 8 shots, I was laughing at him and said: with that set up (4x16 scope, by-pod and back bag), you should not miss them at all. He told me to hit them and I reached for his gun and he said for me to do it with my gun, not backing down I shouldered my gun, the front site covered 3 different pop cans at that range, adjusting my rear site, deep breath and a long squeeze of the trigger, the can on the left shot strait up 6’, he said to do it again, I tried to hand him the gun and said: there it is and you know it will do it. When no one wanted to try my feet, I unloaded the gun and put it up for the day…
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et1
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Post by et1 on Jul 4, 2014 19:26:44 GMT -5
7th
A little mystery can go a long way to leaving the boy’s in suspense.
Now I call that a real Foxy Manuver. The key is in the timing of delivery and sounds like you mastered that nicely.
Thanks for sharing and adding another good chuckle to this day.
Ed
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Post by krwada on Jul 5, 2014 0:41:02 GMT -5
These are all very great stories. The best shots are the one that not only hit ... but have witnesses too!
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That tops anything I ever heard! Thanks for sharing!
My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
