Ozzy Fudd Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) just wonder whats the most damage youve ever done when out shooting? weve all had accidents in the past (especially when learning). the most damage i ever did was in an old farm yard that belonged to my ex's uncle. i was shooting pigeons as they flew out of the barn, one came out lower than the rest and i fired at it with both barrels of the old sbs, hitting it, but also hitting the slate roof on an old outhouse beside the barn, and causing a slight avalanche of tiles off the roof! lucky it was very windy that night, i said nothing, and then the next day i found,tomy surprise, that the wind had dislodged half the roof.... so wots urs? Edited January 25, 2009 by babbyc1000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) I shot (but missed) a pigeon and the shot carried over the top of the farm house and peppered the keeper... He wasn't too happy with me. To set the record straight, the shot was at a high pigeon (about 80 degrees), not one near the ground. I don't see what the fuss is, it just feels like hail stones. Edited January 25, 2009 by harfordwmj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libs Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 it just feels like hail stones. I work at a clay ground so can back that claim up. The 9's - 6's feel like hail, but when idiots start loosing 4's then its run for cover or at least put a wooly hat on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted January 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 hmm forgot that one, 3 of us were shooting at my mates farm recently, we unleashed 8 shots at a crow (and missed!) 5 mins later he got a phone call from his dad saying all the hail had landed on the tin barn he was in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonno243 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) Most damage I ever did was to myself, and I didn't have a gun in my hand! A couple of years ago I was trapping on a simulated shoot organised by my friend at a very good partridge estate just outside Perth. The drive after lunch was set up over a gully (where the guns were situated) with three traps throwing birds straight out over the gully and two traps (facing each other at each end) throwing very fast crossers. Quite a fresh wind was blowing into our face. Throughout the drive not one of the crossers was hit until it came to the last set of guns........ In my recollection, I was sitting on the trap and had just released the arm. I started to look up to check the clays release, and the next thing I know I was lying in the heather behind the trap with claret running down my face. What happened was that one of the guns clipped a crosser, not breaking it clean but chipping it and turning it on its side. The wind promptly did the rest pushing it towards the traps. Had I kept my head down it would have impacted my safety helmet. Because I had started to look up it struck me square in the face just above the bridge of my glasses. The result was my eyebrow laid open to the bone, a lot of blood, a raging headache and no real idea where I was for a while. Still love those simulated days though. Edited January 25, 2009 by Jonno243 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Whilst roost shooting I swung through & pulled the trigger, and brought down a 5" thick dead branch which landed about 6 feet in front of me. The fortunate pigeon flew on, the branch took the entire load of shot at about 10ft from me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Shooting pigeons with my hushed .410 at some private allotments I have permission on. Folded one beautifully, and then realised that on it's new trajectory it was now heading straight for one of the big greenhouses. Smash! ZB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breastman Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I was shooting my .357 Taurus in an indoor club and either the force of it hitting the back plate or the shock wave from the bullet going down range brought down a strip lighting tube, kaboom all over the range floor! After that clips were put around the tubes to make sure they stay in. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I used to know a farmer that had a camp site on his field, he was shooting at something the one day and managed to pepper the side of a customers caravan with shot holes...doh He must of been a bit careless because another time he took a shot at a magpie out of the window forgetting there was a main road as the backstop, luckily he didn't hit anything, not even the magpie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 When i was a teenager the farmers son and I were shooting feral pigeons in the farmyard. I hit one bird behind and it did a lovely glide right around the farmyard and straight through the living room window of the farmhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I wan't there (before I was born) but my Uncle ran a gun shop in Rhodesia, one of his big game clients (a lady) was struggling with the gun so rested her shoulder against a tree, result, broken shoulder (so the story goes). I guess it was a big gun to do that much damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancashireunter Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 When we were kids we were digging out rats down the canal, we got side tracked by a wasps nest in the towpath banking. I struck a match and dropped it near one of holes they wre going in and out of. Unfortunatly the grass was very dry and the whole bank went up. We ran as fast as we could, when we got about half a mile away we heard the fire engines. When they got it under control it had burnt 3 fields of hay, a small newly planted wood and quarter of a mile of banking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapwing Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I was out lamping some wallabies in Australia once when the chap on the rifle put a round into the rear top corner of his pickup tray . He couldnt figure out how he missed so he did it again. Nice grouping in the panel, but I suppose that at about 6 foot it should have been! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I was out fox shooting with a mate walking this wood, came to one end walked the edge to get to a corner, put a fox up out of some rough and as it shot across a ditch and landed my mate cleanly dropped it at about 35yards. Walked up to it, and a young kid sprung out of the ditch, less than 5 yards where the fox had crossed - we didn't even see him till we walked past him. Trembling he ran off - we got a call from an irrate but understanding farmer from the next farm across, who explained that he shouldn't of been where he was and was getting severly told off! - we were extremely lucky l thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townie Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Years ago in the territorials we were on a night firing excercise. Target pops up, guy next to me fires. Next thing "CEASE FIRING. WHO SHOT THAT F-ING SHEEP?" Happens all the time I've heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 damaged my truck and my mate in the same day, out fowling one afternoon parked in the gate way to the marsh, got all kitted up then noticed a big dog do beside the drivers door so jumped in with muddy boots on to drive forward a few feet so as to avoid the offending **** later in the dark when my muddy welly slipped of the clutch and i smashed through the 5 bar wooden gate turning it to match wood and putting a big crease in the bonnet of my truck, got onto the marsh where some cattle are grazed in the summer when the mate said i wonder what would happen if i shot that big green soggy cow pat, so 11/2 of steel BBB through the 10 bore from about 8 feet only for the whole thing to jump 30 feet in the air then land all over him and his dog, both head to foot with only the eye holes showing. didnt think i could run that fast kitted out in fowling clobber with tears of laughter running down my face, still my mate though mikee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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