My neighbor accidentally shot his KID....
07-20-2004, 07:25 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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My neighbor accidentally shot his KID....
My neighbor was shooting his bow in his backyard, and his kids were playing on the swing.. he made a bad shot and it ricochet off of a tree that he uses as a back stop and hit his little boy in the leg...
THANK GOD HE"S OK... but he's gonna be hurting for awhile...
What ya'll think of that/
THANK GOD HE"S OK... but he's gonna be hurting for awhile...
What ya'll think of that/
07-20-2004, 07:26 PM
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RE: My neighbor accidentally shot his KID....
Why would you shoot outside when others are out? Also a tree is not a good backstop. It is round and if it hits it wrong it will ricochet off.
Glad to hear the kid was ok though.
Glad to hear the kid was ok though.
07-20-2004, 08:02 PM
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RE: My neighbor accidentally shot his KID....
This example is the exact reason that nobody in a neighborhood should shoot a bow, which was a recent hot topic in the bowhunting column. Matthewsboy, I don't know if you're in a neighborhood either, but thank God if any kid got hit in the leg, it was his own son. [
] It's a scary shame either way...
] It's a scary shame either way...
07-20-2004, 08:11 PM
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RE: My neighbor accidentally shot his KID....
I agree that the back yard when others are out there isn't the place for practicing , and a tree definetly isn't a good backstop as Zak say's .I think this guy just isn't very bright and shouldn't have a bow in his hands at all .I'm glad to hear the boy is o.k. I heard a story of a guy and his son hunting sheep and the father took a shot and the arrow hit a rock and deflected right into the boy's heart and killed him . I'm sure this guy will pay for this the rest of his life ,and I hope the guy your talking about has learned a valuable lesson by this.He should consider himself lucky.
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