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Ive been shot at while hunting. Something ill never forget and a sound ill never forget. Then they guy walks up lookin for blood.

Wonder if they were mistaken for a deer or a deer was shot at.

Amount of orange i question.

Position also.

See folks here wear brown carharts and a half orange cap and call it good

I would bet it was a sound shot or shooting at movement.

Some bubba's aint too bright.

You pull the trigger, you own it and you cant call it back. I learned that at age 7 on my first duck hunting trip.

IIRC the largest size buckshot is nine .32 lead balls in a 12ga.

Almost like nine rounds out of a .32 cal muzzleloader. How far away could a .32 muzzleloading rifle kill a man with a torso hit?

How far could a load of buckshot open up at that distance?

15 in a 3", IIRC.

I would have made sure he found some.

Twice that many (18) in a 3 1/2'' 12 ga


Mike

I have killed a lot of deer from 10 to 50 yards with 3" magnum 00 and 000 buck before slugs were allowed where I hunted.. It folds deer instantly, I can only imagine what it would do to a human.

When I was a kid we hunted with hounds in E Texas. I had an uncle who was death on deer with his single shot break over Win 12 Ga Mod 37 Full Choke. That's all anyone used in those days of paper hulls with no shot cups.

90% of woodsman used No 1 buck because it was a given it patterned better with a full choke 12. His kid had got into some open paint on the porch when backs were turned while painting the wood joints after squirrel hunting one morning and it was set on the porch after the squirrels were skinned. Michael had managed to smear some blue on the buttstock.

Legend had it that Uncle Party (Eugene) had later killed an 8 point buck with Ole Blue at a measured off 110 steps as it ran across the open pipeline in the heavily timbered Neches River Pasture bottom one fine frosty morning. He was the youngest of six boys and nick-named Party because he like to go to birthday parties as a kid.

He killed that buck a few years after he had returned home from playing "monster man" on the US Army football team and survived a tour in the Korean War and had received an eye injury causing him to have to learn to shoot left handed.

I was a youngster and was never appraised the number or location of hits on that deer but years later I realized I wish I had found out.

Cousin Michael froze to death years later while in the Coast Guard when he and a bud capsized their boat on a duck hunt while he was stationed in Va. I was in college when I lost my hunting bud.

His sister now takes a few squirrels every year with Ole Blue and I expect the saying that it's taken a truck load of ducks and squirrel and several of deer is pretty much true.

About 10 years old I snuck up on and killed my first squirrel with it when we were camping and hunting on Sulphur Creek. Man, with high base No6 Red Winchester shells I hated to pull the trigger on it. Ole Blue could sure blue your shoulder too.

Really sad. I wonder if the shooter shot at noise or movement in the brush. Can't imagine he saw them and thought they were deer.

When I was a kid, we were part of a huge Weyerhauser lease club and we ran dogs, like everyone else on it. My dad, who was a deputy sheriff at the time, and 2 of his hunting buddies were walking down the middle of a logging road when someone shot at them with 12 gauge buckshot. One of the pellets went through the shoulder of my dad's blaze orange vest. Another went into one of the buddies arm but didn't hit bone. They were very very fortunate to not have been killed. The guy that shot them admitted to shooting at through bushes at noises coming down the road. My dad arrested him on the spot but I don't recall the punishment being all that harsh.

Now that I'm older, wiser, and no longer bulletproof, I get as far away from everyone else as I can when hunting. I'm fortunate enough to have a couple parcels of private land to hunt though, one of which I'm the only hunter that should be there.

Have the shooter or shooters ever been identified in this shooting, was it an accident or a murder ?

https://www.wect.com/2020/01/02/father-daughter-killed-hunting-accident-colleton-county/

Why has this been so quiet, unless the shooter was also a child ?

Why has this been so quiet, unless the shooter was also a child ?

I just looked this up a half hour ago, nothing new.
It is about time for an indictment for manslaughter, or else, second degree murder.

There is something ugly about all of this, not a word from the mother or the police, I hope to God it was not a sibling that killed the two of them ! Murder suicide? this is taking way to long.

No ones heard a thing about how this happened ?