PkrBum wrote:Knot... if you don't wish to discuss it I completely understand... I was just wondering who had shot you and why? I walked into a robbery once and had a pistol pointed at me... scared the shit out of me.
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LOL, pkr it's an interesting story with a happy ending (I survived). It was a hunting accident, Aug. 16, 1961, 4:15 PM hotter than a two peckered billy goat. My oldest brother dropped myself and a fellow hunter off at a spot neither of us had ever been . . . . . my brother explained that the lay of the land was at point of entry into the woods there would be two very significant ridges . . . . our plan was for one of us (me) to cross over both ridges and hit the creek bed follow the creek about 3 miles back to main road. The other one would NOT cross either ridge but stay on course working himself back to main road by dark. Off we went, I crossed the first ridge and made my way across the second ridge and hit the creek bed which was dry but moss covered rocks to walk on . . . . . I was making no more noise than a mouse pissing on cotton . . . . . . I proceeded down the creek about 30-40 yards and BAM . . . . didn't hurt whatsoever, it was a tremendous concussion so big it actually blew me out of the creek bed and up onto the bank . . . . . all my alarms have gone off and it took about maybe 3-5 seconds to realize what just happened . . . . . . I've been shot! OMG! Here comes my hunting buddy (Cooper) running towards me thrashing about in the dry leaves. He had shot me from about 26-30 yards with a 12 gauge Browning automatic, 30 in. full choke, #6, big brass round and about 95% hit me. I had 38 in my left arm alone, several hit my face (one breaking a tooth), multiple entries in my upper torso ultimately leading the collapse of my right lung, my femoral artery had unfortunately been nicked, . . . . . .
this is NOT good. I told Cooper to get help since I wasn't in the mood to lay there and bleed to death . . . . . he would run away from me 20 or 30 ft but come back and plead "Don't die *****, please don't die" he did this maybe three times and I told him I was dang sure going to die if he didn't go for help . . . . he disappeared back over the ridge and towards our point of entry. There were two farmers gathering corn as we came in and they were hopefully still there . . . now alone and scared I get up, unload my gun, and begin the long walk out . . . . I was losing so much blood my shoes were full , my clothing sticking to me everywhere, dripping off every frigging finger, I could see the break where we entered but I was slowly running out of gas but I could see Cooper with two men running across the field in my direction, feeling safer now I let my body weight shift to my shotgun and I slumped down on both knees . . . . I distinctly remember the comforting voice of this old farmer, he said "hold on son, we're comin'". The next thing they drove a vehicle ('60 Chev. white, 4 Dr. Belair) across this cornfield . . . . . they put newspapers down in the back seat where I was placed for the 40 mile or so ride to the nearest hospital. I lived . . . . THE END!