Thread: Hunting Has a Bad Habit of Kicking Your Arse

It happens!!

Out shooting bunnies alone in mate's truck. Saw bunny out the front passenger window side, wound it down some, lean over and line up little 15" barrel 22 on bunny and pulled trigger. Bang! Smash! glass everywhere - blew the window out. Buggered if I know what happened to rabbit..

Years later boy sitting behind me while I drive calls out "there's one in front dad". Says "STOP - and pull your arms in" .. Bang, smash - more glass bits and side mirror's got a hole in it!! How common is that..

Another story - not mine - guy gets out of truck to lean rifle forestock on bonnet for centrefire shot. Boom... and barrel flash across bonnet paintwork.. Gotta watch that scope-to-barrel gap up close..

Shooting a possum one time - high up in tree. Boom with shottie, got him, I look down smiling - and whack - the possum hits me by the head as he falls straight down out of tree. Solid little buggers..

Last one - out pighunting with old man and we're following a big boar on a dense bush hilltop. Dogs keep bailing, he keeps breaking, then we notice he's circling towards us. He breaks again and now he's 30 meters away crashing straight at us. Old man grabs me (7 years old) and pushes me up a rotten tree, boar comes crashing past... exactly as the tree crashes down!!! Boar misses me by a hair's breadth and helluva scrap breaks out 4-5 meters away as dogs get to him and bail again. This time old man gets there.. BOOM from the old jungle carbine. Quite some time before this little fella keen to go pighunting with dad again....