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Harriest predicament you've ever found yourself in while in the woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="DaveTN" data-source="post: 5294400" data-attributes="member: 3052"><p>I wasn't in the field for this, but its impacted me all my life. I was probably 8 or 10 years old, I'm 67 now. I was visiting my Uncle and Aunt that were like 2<sup>nd</sup> parents to me. We were watching TV one night when the wife of one of my Uncles hunting buddies called. She told my uncle her husband had not come home from a Pheasant hunting trip. That wasn't like him. She had called the Police and they were looking for him. </p><p></p><p>My Uncle knew where he hunted and him and my Dad went to look for him. They found him..dead. He had been shot with his own gun. I remember hearing people talk about suicide, and I later asked my uncle about that. He said, no, he had a bad habit of leaving the safety off on his shotgun with a round chambered. My uncle said he had to remind him about it all the time. He said they found him at a fence. My uncle said he thinks his friend probably put his gun against a fence post to climb over the fence, and then either it fell, or he grabbed it wrong and it went off. </p><p></p><p>It was one of my first dealings with death and one of my first real world dealings with firearm safety that has stayed with me all my life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveTN, post: 5294400, member: 3052"] I wasn't in the field for this, but its impacted me all my life. I was probably 8 or 10 years old, I'm 67 now. I was visiting my Uncle and Aunt that were like 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] parents to me. We were watching TV one night when the wife of one of my Uncles hunting buddies called. She told my uncle her husband had not come home from a Pheasant hunting trip. That wasn't like him. She had called the Police and they were looking for him. My Uncle knew where he hunted and him and my Dad went to look for him. They found him..dead. He had been shot with his own gun. I remember hearing people talk about suicide, and I later asked my uncle about that. He said, no, he had a bad habit of leaving the safety off on his shotgun with a round chambered. My uncle said he had to remind him about it all the time. He said they found him at a fence. My uncle said he thinks his friend probably put his gun against a fence post to climb over the fence, and then either it fell, or he grabbed it wrong and it went off. It was one of my first dealings with death and one of my first real world dealings with firearm safety that has stayed with me all my life. [/QUOTE]
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