Shot at

Supergrit · #1 10-10-2016, 11:05 PM

Curious of people's stories about being shot at by mistake or scoped by another hunter?

Smokinyotes · #2 10-10-2016, 11:18 PM

The only time i was crapping my pants was hiking out after legal light and seeing a deer between myself and the road. A truck came down the road and stopped. I saw the interior light come on as someone got out of the truck. I immediately layed down as low as i could and yelled. The truck quickly drove off. It may not sound that significant but i thought for sure they were going to take a poke at that deer.

airbornedeerhunter · #3 10-10-2016, 11:19 PM

Me and a buddy had a bozo fire two rounds at us at dawn a few years back. We were walking single file across a pasture and I guess from a distance we looked like one mass with 4 legs. We turned on our headlamps after the second shot and the guy got back in his truck and peeled out the road allowance. Never did figure who it was. That SNAP over your head isn't pleasant.

Huntsman · #4 10-20-2016, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by airbornedeerhunter

Me and a buddy had a bozo fire two rounds at us at dawn a few years back. We were walking single file across a pasture and I guess from a distance we looked like one mass with 4 legs. We turned on our headlamps after the second shot and the guy got back in his truck and peeled out the road allowance. Never did figure who it was. That SNAP over your head isn't pleasant.

Especially when its "blue on blue"

elkamaholic · #5 10-20-2016, 09:27 PM

Been hunting the same area south of debolt for many years. Had one group of young fellas who used to think it was funny to shoot over people's heads as they passed by their camp after dark on atvs....I never saw the humour in it. They even visited near our camp one year to let some bullets fly from the main pipeline, again after dark. Those valleyview neighbours had lost our respect already, guess they wanted to seal the deal
Another group of older gentlemen who are also "camp neighbours" only a few miles distant had one fellow who scoped my dad and I as we drive the sbs towards him. I guess we must have looked like a moose or something from 200 yards away...darned Polaris is too quiet I guess

that was three years ago...I let it go since he was in his mid seventies and though he should've know better, maybe his eyes were starting to go and his fixed income didn't afford him the resources to buy binos, right?
Same moron drove his quad in on us and screwed up a very good elk encounter this fall....at 8:30 in the morning. I didn't let that one go.

Bergerboy · #6 10-20-2016, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elkamaholic

Been hunting the same area south of debolt for many years. Had one group of young fellas who used to think it was funny to shoot over people's heads as they passed by their camp after dark on atvs....I never saw the humour in it. They even visited near our camp one year to let some bullets fly from the main pipeline, again after dark. Those valleyview neighbours had lost our respect already, guess they wanted to seal the deal
Another group of older gentlemen who are also "camp neighbours" only a few miles distant had one fellow who scoped my dad and I as we drive the sbs towards him. I guess we must have looked like a moose or something from 200 yards away...darned Polaris is too quiet I guess

that was three years ago...I let it go since he was in his mid seventies and though he should've know better, maybe his eyes were starting to go and his fixed income didn't afford him the resources to buy binos, right?
Same moron drove his quad in on us and screwed up a very good elk encounter this fall....at 8:30 in the morning. I didn't let that one go.

Was said moron trespassing?

kman35ca · #7 10-20-2016, 10:09 PM

Out coyote hunting 2 years ago. Our stand was on the side of a fair size valley. 2 yotes came in but held up about 300 yards back then started coming right up the peak of the hill. We where waiting for them to give us a backdrop before we shot them. Next thing, snap bang. Someone was shooting at them while they where walking the ridge top from about 5-600 yards away. I just instinctively slid down the hill I was on so I would be covered. Never found out where the shots came from or who it was. Scared the hell out of me and my bro. One round hit a fence post 3 ft from my brothers head...Orange hats ever since.. Hope that helps.

elkhunter11 · #8 10-20-2016, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bergerboy

Was said moron trespassing?

Or in a wmu where there are restrictions concerning firearms being carried on atvs before noon on public land?

RandyBoBandy · #9 10-23-2016, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by airbornedeerhunter

Me and a buddy had a bozo fire two rounds at us at dawn a few years back. We were walking single file across a pasture and I guess from a distance we looked like one mass with 4 legs. We turned on our headlamps after the second shot and the guy got back in his truck and peeled out the road allowance. Never did figure who it was. That SNAP over your head isn't pleasant.

Never heard the SNAP..sure as heck heard the WHIZZZZZZZ going by

antler1 · #10 10-23-2016, 07:33 PM

A long time ago we were pitted in for a goose shoot by Camrose when we saw a truck stop on the road. Next thing we knew a rifle shot whizzed through our decoys and we ducked to the bottom of our pits. I guess when the idiot realized he was shooting at decoys he decided to burn out of there at Mach 9.
Scared the hell out of us.

Talking moose · #11 10-10-2016, 11:27 PM

One time about 25 years ago was at a hard drinking party with some bad azs crazy boys and me and buddy were sitting on each end of the couch and nobody in the middle when another guy stepped out from the hallway with a lever 30-30 and put 2 quick hip shots between me and buddy on the couch....true story and I can't tell you any more than that. Never been scoped that I know of though.

LKILR · #12 10-11-2016, 03:46 AM

Just happened on Sunday to me and the girlfriend . We were hunting the back country on horseback and when we got close to the main road we heard rapid gun fire and also bullets whizzing over our heads. I galloped my horse out to the road to find some guy teaching his young son to "hunt" grouse by shooting a semi automatic .22 from the truck and across secondary hyway 940. So I delicately explained to him that other people use the area and shooting from the truck across the road is maybe unsafe. (Sarcasm) They bailed in the truck and left the area in a big rush.

58thecat · #13 10-11-2016, 05:50 AM

Use to sit a click off a grid road back in saskabush, leeward side of a hill, buddy says to me why are we sitting here in the scrub and buck brush when on the other side was a nice watering hole, alfalfa etc...opening season of rifle I said...sun started to rise...vehicles stop on the grid road...WWIII starts...bullets winging all over the place...deer filter by and he shot a 150 inch whitetail!

Leeward side out of a bullets path...

Ranch11 · #14 10-11-2016, 06:48 AM

The zing of a bullet over head can be nerve wracking. We were hunting elk north of peace river, sitting in a field amongst some willow crowns, waiting for the elk to come out. Hunters to the north of us seen the elk before we did and the shooting started. Many bullets zinging right by us. Neither hunting party knew the other was there. We left in a hurry to try to get over to talk with them. They didn't have permission on the land we were on. Coulda been way worse.

JustMe · #15 10-11-2016, 07:06 AM

So many idiots out there that refuse to buy binos and then use their scopes to check you out... Down right scary the people they let have fireames these days!

elkhunter11 · #16 10-11-2016, 07:10 AM

I have been scoped many times by idiots using their riflescopes in place of binoculars. These days I often avoid wearing bright colors, as I prefer people not seeing me at all, so I don't have loaded firearms being purposely pointed at me by idiots.

As for actually being shot at, I was hit by shot at a pheasant release site about two weeks ago by some genius that fired directly into a parking lot. A lady that I know was hit by shot in the same parking lot only two days ago.

The simple fact is that some people have no clue as to the safe handling of firearms, and some people simply have no regard for the safety of other hunters. How do you get through to someone that purposely and illegally points a firearm at another individual, in order to look at the individual through their rifescope? How do you get through to someone that purposely fires a shotgun into a parking lot occupied by people and vehicles? You can't fix stupid.

wolf308 · #17 10-11-2016, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Talking moose

One time about 25 years ago was at a hard drinking party with some bad azs crazy boys and me and buddy were sitting on each end of the couch and nobody in the middle when another guy stepped out from the hallway with a lever 30-30 and put 2 quick hip shots between me and buddy on the couch....true story and I can't tell you any more than that. Never been scoped that I know of though.

Wow !!! I wanna hear more. Lol. That's some crazy partying

I have had some 17 hmrs rip around me shooting gophers and I needed to fix scope / mount and get a quick zero on rifle once. Friend lost sight of me when I had layed down in prone. Had to tie my shirt to rifle and surrender. Prolly not super close but was a learning lesson. ( everyone stops shooting and assists with re zero )

fordtruckin · #18 10-11-2016, 07:16 PM

I been shot at, quite a few times actually...not sure why they were hunting me, I ain't THAT fat....lol

Pony · #19 10-11-2016, 09:50 PM

Hey Duramaximous,
So im on a hillside looking for game, my gun is across my lap maybe pointed in the valley you come up, so i spot you from my binos, if you see me i give you a wave in hopes you dont continue up the valley, if you dont i take a chance and be quiet, i know where you are so in my eyes your more dangerous if game pops out, regardless i have no need to pick up or touch my gun through the entire process, again why do i need to pick up my heavy .338 mag

densa44 · #20 10-11-2016, 10:07 PM

First time we were goose hunting just inside the Quebec boarder north of Pettawawa we had pits and a spread of decoys. A taxi pulled up on the road near our spread and a Priest jumped out of the taxi and began firing at our decoys with a 30-30. It wasn't me that stood up and yelled!

The second time was duck hunting near shining tree (North of Sudbury) and my friends had dropped the dog and I off at our blind and left in the boat. I went to work in my waders putting out decoys. It was a very foggy morning.

I was in the blind when about 20 feet in front of me appeared a man in the front a canoe in a red outfit pointing his moose rifle right at me.

grouse_hunter · #21 10-11-2016, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by densa44

First time we were goose hunting just inside the Quebec boarder north of Pettawawa we had pits and a spread of decoys. A taxi pulled up on the road near our spread and a Priest jumped out of the taxi and began firing at our decoys with a 30-30. It wasn't me that stood up and yelled!

This one takes the cake! Did you get an explanation?

West O'5 · #22 10-12-2016, 01:31 AM

I've gotten into the habit of ALWAYS using a flashlight to walk out at dusk/dark-thirty,wether I need it to see my way out or not!

Tcon · #23 10-20-2016, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by densa44

First time we were goose hunting just inside the Quebec boarder north of Pettawawa we had pits and a spread of decoys. A taxi pulled up on the road near our spread and a Priest jumped out of the taxi and began firing at our decoys with a 30-30. It wasn't me that stood up and yelled!

The second time was duck hunting near shining tree (North of Sudbury) and my friends had dropped the dog and I off at our blind and left in the boat. I went to work in my waders putting out decoys. It was a very foggy morning.

I was in the blind when about 20 feet in front of me appeared a man in the front a canoe in a red outfit pointing his moose rifle right at me.

I didn't get shot at but almost got ran over. I was waterfowling on private land with permission from the landowner who said "definitely, get those bastards off my barley". I setup my decoys, brushed in the layout blinds and just waited for the them to arrive. I look to my left and see a truck entering the field and thought damn, he must have given other people permission too. The guy in the truck slowly makes his way toward me and I was thinking WTF? Then pins it coming right at me full speed I sit up and start waving and the guy stops short of me. He gets out and I see it was the landowner, he says "damn, those decoys look so real I thought they were geese in my field again". So now I know there's brushed in, then there's almost runover brushed in..

ORVIS · #24 10-12-2016, 05:47 AM

If been scoped just outside of lesslievile from a guy in a big lifted jeep crushing cutlines you know who you are... Scope me again and I might just raise my glass and see what that shiny thing in the bush is. Don't scope others if you don't like being scoped yourself. Please invest in some binoculars

58thecat · #25 10-12-2016, 05:47 AM

One thing I have done in areas of multiple hunters or hunting pressure is hang a orange toque or vest off a tree it gives people an indication a hunter may be present in that area as I sit 50 yards away in a blinde etc.
Not the complete answer but it is an ounce of prevention.

straight · #26 10-12-2016, 06:13 AM

Just a few weeks ago I got a new picture for my avatar - X-ray image of my right knee.

Talking moose · #27 10-12-2016, 06:34 AM

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Just a few weeks ago I got a new picture for my avatar - X-ray image of my right knee.

How bout a story to go with the new avitar pic.....?

straight · #28 10-12-2016, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Talking moose

How bout a story to go with the new avitar pic.....?

I got shot 1 km west of Shell Gas plant (burnt timber road) on Aug 23 while hiking/picking mushrooms on crown land by some haywire recreational shooter.

700-223 · #29 10-12-2016, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by 58thecat

One thing I have done in areas of multiple hunters or hunting pressure is hang a orange toque or vest off a tree it gives people an indication a hunter may be present in that area as I sit 50 yards away in a blinde etc.
Not the complete answer but it is an ounce of prevention.

That's not a bad idea about the toque/hunters orange. I haven't done much still hunting, but is a good idea for the next time I do.

I need to buy some binoculars. I usually use my rangefinder, or my bro-in-laws binoculars but really need to get my own. Haven't scoped anybody yet, or been scoped but would be foolish to wait until it happens.

Recommendations for good value binoculars?

redneck yote · #30 10-12-2016, 09:53 PM

My Granddad was shot and killed by his best friend while hunting when I was 10. So I take gun handling and hunting very serious and with the out most respect . I'm glad my granddad & father were great outdoors men and passed along their knowledge. The hunting community has changed drastically in the last few years and I'm very surprised that there hasn't been more hunting related deaths with the new ways of hunting going on .