Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Wife called the police while I was out.

I have been gone a lot lately with my pop being sick. Today he felt like running some errands with me so I left early and we burnt a trail and when I got home the police was at my house my wife was screaming at my neighbors like she was gonna kill them. After I got her away from them me and the policeman got the story. First of all I actually got there just a second before the cops did and I heard shooting in the guys back yard behind the shed.

Come to find out my oldest son was on the ridge above our neighbors house crow hunting and some shot fell on his roof. That was no doubt his fault. So this guy instead of coming over and telling us what was going on or walking up there and saying now damnit boys your gonna have to watch where you shoot cause the shot is falling on my house, if you do that again I will tell your dad. He goes and gets a gun and starts shooting up into the woods.

I know that my boy was in the wrong. You can't see any houses from up there but he should have known not to shoot in that direction. He was shooting 7.5s almost strait up so it wasn't danderous he just thinking. I'm gonna make him go through hunters safety again. But what in the hell was that guy thinking? The police asked him did you think that was a good idea to get a gun and start shooting? He said well probably not. He also lied and said he shot into the ground but my wife said she could see limbs shake and dirt flying as did a friend of my sons that was with her.

The police said the charges against him would be reckless endangerment. All I have to do is go take a warrent out on him. What a f'ed up idiot to not just walk over and knock on the door. Its crazy times we live in. If I had been home and saw him shooting up that way and i knew my son was up there, well lets just say I thank God I wasn't home to see that, and all is well. SMH shakin my head, crazy mother.

I can truly say I am thankful I don't have any of you for neighbors.

Lol I hear you. it was a litte to jerry springer for me too. But you don't screw with a moma bear. I mean who in the hell shoots at kids?

Who's kids shoot at others? Neither you or your neighbor have right to be mad; only embarrassed.

Question, if your kids could not see the houses and were shooting in the direction where people lived, how did the neighbor know it was kids shooting? I am assuming he could not see them anymore than the kids could the houses.

Sounds at first blush like two counts of reckless endangerment need to be made. Kids will be kids, but guns aren't toys. I cannot say in that situation how I would have reacted either. One not knowing it was kids. Two not knowing what was being shot. Sounds like a situation that would not have happened if communication would have occurred on either part. Ya'll can point fingers all day long if you like, but thank God no one was hurt to allow you to do so.

Was he shooting a shotgun or something else towards the woods?

Birds fly in the air. You shoot shotguns into the air at the birds and the shot falls. He wasn't shooting at anyone. The shot fell probably 3 or 4 hundred yards away from where my boy was. Where he was shooting from your shots are almost strait up. There is a big difference between shot falling strait down and shooting directly in the direction of someone. It was a mistake made by a teenage boy vs something intentional by a middle aged grown man.

Yup! That's for sure!

If someone dropped 7.5 shot on my roof i wouldn't give a chit and wouldn't say nothing. Chit Happens . Your wife and the neighbor both over reacted . You are lucky the cop didn't shoot your wife .

What did the neighbor shoot back with?

I didn't think 7.5's could go 3 or 400 yards.

didn't see, I only heard but my wife said a revolver.

my wife was screaming its reid up there stop shooting and he just kept on shooting. He knows reid and also knows he is the only one who hunts up there and he only bird hunt and you only hunt birds with a shotgun.

Everybody knows the sound of birdshot falling on metal roofs like a barn if you have dove hunted in the south. You can tell it isn't a single loud thud not spinkles of 3 or 4 little pings.

Cops made a judgment that he was being reckless and saw where Reid was shooting from and said they couldn't belive shot could even make it that far. Like I said Reid was in the wrong but my God my wife was screaming at the guy to stop and he just looked at her and kept going. Can you imagine what she felt like. She is still a wreck.

It can't.

Strong wind can put the drop area quite a distance from where the shot was fired.

I worry that there are a good many on the 'fire that may have reacted exactly as the neighbor did.

IIRC, I saw a chart once about how far different sized shot will travel..... Thinking at a 45 degree angle it was in the neighborhood of 175 yards.....

Its possible no shot fell on his roof, that he heard the shooting and it pissed him off..

You never know

But if shot did drop on the neighbor my son would be apologizing. Even after the neighbors stupid stunt.

We should be at least a notch above the others.

Sadly I'd have to agree with you.

Heck I have shot falling on the roof all the time during dove season. Either by the neighbors or me. I even had if fall on me while mowing grass. Nothing is ever said as its over 300 yards away. Feels like a bugs hitting you. The neighbor is completely wrong for doing what he did. So does that mean the next time it happens to me I go get my 1919 browning out with a full ammo can of 30-06 and plet them back. He!! no, getting hit that far away with 7 1/2's don't even sting. He should have come talked to you or if he still wanted to be a azzhole call the cops, but never shoot back, what was that going to do or prove. Hes lucky he didn't hit your son or he would be someone bitch in jail.

Your son is in serious need of adult supervision and training, just sending them off to Hunter Education class in not enough. Your neighbor needs his azz kicked.