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Some here think the boy didn't do anything wrong. Seems to me one of the basic rules of shooting are to know where every shot is going to end up. With houses in the area he shouldn't be shooting in that direction no matter how harmless the end result would seem to be. He is certainly less in the wrong than the neighbour but not completely guilt free.

Jim

Agreed, the boy needs to be more careful, but 7.5 shot dropping on a roof. Who does he shoot at when it hails?

Your neighbor was definitely out of line.

If anyone is ever going to have the pleasure of shooting my kids,
it's definitely going to be me. I've earned it.

I would watch the neighbor. What else is going to set him off on a shooting spree ? Hope cool heads prevail and all can see the dangers here and defuse any future problems.

He did know where it was going...up. A shotgun filled with birdshot and shot in the air is safe, period. It isn't a rifle.

Have any of you ever been duck hunting on a busy WMA on opening day? My goodness if some of you went by the same standards there that you espouse here, you would never take your shotgun out of the case. The shot sometimes looks like rain tinkling down in the decoys. At times, it is almost constant.

On the other hand, it might be considered rude. Especially if there were other options.

SealBilly,unless you actually saw and collected some of that 7.5 shot that was supposedly falling on the house...Nobody's gonna convince me that it happened.I believe this person just wanted to act crazy and put on a show like he's all bad and crazy,don't you know.Your Son did nothing wrong.

Well, that's the good part. for the rest of it...

Sorry to hear about your Dad, and your neighbor, and the cops. All that doesn't sound so good.

Sycamore

Yea, lying brat was probably chootin crows with buckshot.

I'd definitely call a fire member and his son liars rather than question someone trying to choot a kid with a pistol.

Shameless fits you well.

9 of 10 women I am aware of would be hard pressed to prevail in a gunfight with an already armed azzhat. Bad situation either way, but I do feel she would have been within her rights either way as well.

I ain't suggesting jack chit, as I cannot say how I would have reacted in the same situation, but I damn sure would have got my hands on the guy....gun or not. Personally, I feel a rifle would have been the best solution.

What are you talking about?I refuse to believe any bird shot was raining on the idiot's roof.I also do believe he just saw an opportunity to act an idiot and shoot at the kid.So what are you trying to say?

The kid did nothing wrong and the neighbor is a dangerous idiot. Birdshot is harmless falling and most likely didn't fall that far away. All the little bitches here wringing their hands and pontificating about how wrong the kid was are hunting posers.

What I want to hear is the storey from your son as far as being under fire. Did he hear the pistol? That storey.

I thing the boys mom was watching the nut job shooting into the woods where the boy was.

That's why she lost her cool and was screaming at the guy to stop shooting.

That boy did nothing wrong! At 300 yards there is no way him or anyone else could predict 7.5 shot falling on a house. I wouldn't take any action toward that lad. The neighbor needs that revolver shoved up his a$$ and fired. My father had a Greyhound farm in Penrose with lots of water that carried over on his neighbors land and when the locals hunted ducks and geese the shot would fall on the corrugated roofs and the only thing said is looks like they are hunting, maybe they will let us have one or two.

Glad no one was hurt first of all.
Now as for the neighbor,he should have been arrested.
He did wrong not your kid.

From where my son was I don't think hecould have possably hit him. The ridge is about 100-150 yards tall and it Iis flat on the top. Reid was on the oopposite side of the field. He said he didn't hear the guy yelling but he heard shots and then my wife called him and told him to get home and that schmuck was shooting up his way. We as does the guy below him call him schmuck. The guy from what I gather from Tabitha shot a couple of times before she went outside and when she did go outside he was raising all kinds of hell. That's when he shot 3 more times in reids direction. That's when she flipped and called reid, 911 and then I pulled up. Reid said he heard shots but knew before my wife called him they were headed in his direction when he heard one zip overhead and to his right. When he left the blind he circled around as to go away from the danger. I could tell from here he came out of the woods.

That crap was like a dream after it was over. I'm still in disbelief.
Some on here think they're two side to the story but I say they're 3 or 4 cause the ass hole told the cops 2 different ones while I stood there.

Sound like all are well, which is good. I've never viewed raining shot as an issue all. As a kid in some of Virginia's crowded corn fields during dove season, folks rained shot all over each other and never drew a comment.

With today's ignorant sector though, I guess one should minimize those events.

Taking on horizontal shot, however, is another deal indeed.

take gunner's advice


keep you family safe, if justice is to be served, there needs to be a significant cooling period.

I'm not advocating you do anything in particular.

other than keep your family safe the best way you can, including having their husband and dad around forever.

best to you in this f'ed up situation

I don't believe any fell on his house,and I hope they keep an eye on that nut next door.It would be a bad day at Blackrock if a neighbor was pulling that around here.Even if some did fall to the roof he couldn't have heard it,not on metal,and certainly not on shingles.

thanks guys for the good wishes. I'm ready to get back on some obama hating and best caliber debating or who shaves there junk more often and who looks better in a thong threads, o or who drives on ice better yanks or hillbillies. The Fire is chaos, lol.