Larraby sasquatch Miller

[jefair1]

I saw a post on a FB muzzleloading site about him with a link to Youtube.
He was hunting caribou in Alaska with a muzzleloader.
He loaded his rifle, capped it, then lowered the hammer on to the cap. He was moving thru brush and had the buttstock over his shoulder and was holding the barrel at the muzzle. Going thru some brush, a branch pulled the hammer back and dropped it on the cap. He shot his little finger off.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

This happened some years back.

This guy claims to be a Last of the Breed™ mountain man.

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Eric Krewson]

In one segment he was making an osage bow to hunt with, it was obvious he didn't know anything about bow making. Instead of chasing a ring down the back he was shaping the back with a course rasp, I knew he would never make a bow out of the stave he had. He didn't know the steps to make a bow and failed at his project quickly.

All of this kind of stuff is scripted by writers who don't know squat about the topic at hand, the "actors" don't know either and go along with what they are told to do.

 

[mikesto44]

It's Hollywood so natural stupidity goes hand an hand.
Now the sad part is millions of people believe everything they see on T.V. an the Internet..

 

[Frontier's]

Considering it's a hunting show. It's not Hollywood run

 

[yellowhammer]

...Going thru some brush, a branch pulled the hammer back and dropped it on the cap...

There are numerous historical documented cases of this type of accidental discharge in the War Of Northern Aggression; both sides; most fatal. Greatest number involved crawling/climbing over fences, then reaching and pulling muzzle first...

 

[smo]

One of my Dads Friends blew his arm off climbing through a barbed wire fence while rabbit hunting.. Before my time.

My Dad wasn’t with him at the time, but he always made sure when we came too a fence one person held the guns while the other crossed the fence…
Then the guns were handed over the fence with the muzzle always pointed in a safe direction.
We did not unload the guns too cross the fence, but they were always safely handled.

 

[yellowhammer]

Yep. AD's suck.

 

[stank]

I ran camera on a friend’s outdoor show. He focused more on the outdoor experience rather than just killing stuff (probably why he didn’t make it really big). I bet up to about 95% of what’s filmed is basically made up after an animal is taken. It’s all fill in material. We had some of that but most of his show was real hunting. All those shows have a place on the market. Yes it is a market. But they are not real hunting. Honestly now that I know about the industry I cant watch any of those shows any more. To me it’s actually kind of sad.
Stank

 

[yellowhammer]

Especially that Cabela's show. Grates on my nerves....

 

[gunnyr]

One of my Dads Friends blew his arm off climbing through a barbed wire fence while rabbit hunting.. Before my time.

My Dad wasn’t with him at the time, but he always made sure when we came too a fence one person held the guns while the other crossed the fence…
Then the guns were handed over the fence with the muzzle always pointed in a safe direction.
We did not unload the guns too cross the fence, but they were always safely handled.

This was common practice for me as well, in fact I carried my first shot gun empty for the first year. I was reminded for my failures in safe carry before I even shot a round. It worked for me and I treaded my son and daughter the same way

 

[smo]

I had too use a single shot .410 for my first couple of season quail & squirrel hunting.
But it was loaded too the gills!

 

[Eterry]

In one segment he was making an osage bow to hunt with, it was obvious he didn't know anything about bow making. Instead of chasing a ring down the back he was shaping the back with a course rasp, I knew he would never make a bow out of the stave he had. He didn't know the steps to make a bow and failed at his project quickly.

All of this kind of stuff is scripted by writers who don't know squat about the topic at hand, the "actors" don't know either and go along with what they are told to do.

That guy is the main reason I stopped watching that show, and every other (non) Reality Show.
I admit to lowering the hammer on a cap during wet weather and other times, but never covered the muzzle with my fingers.
I also saw many stupid human tricks with firearms during my time wearing a badge. Jeez.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

One of my Dads Friends blew his arm off climbing through a barbed wire fence while rabbit hunting.. Before my time.

My Dad wasn’t with him at the time, but he always made sure when we came too a fence one person held the guns while the other crossed the fence…
Then the guns were handed over the fence with the muzzle always pointed in a safe direction.
We did not unload the guns too cross the fence, but they were always safely handled.

Doing this was one of the first things we were taught as kids. Hand the gun to someone and then cross the fence, or, lay the gun down under the fence, then cross it if you were alone.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

I watched this fool Laramie Miller a couple of times. Once he was supposedly hunting a grizzly bear with some kind of kit gun that looked unfinished. He carried it through the woods in a leather sleeve. When he "spotted a bear" he took it out to load it. Hurriedly got it charged with a Maxi Ball and went to put a cap on. He fished out a tin of caps from his pocket and holding the rifle, he tries to "unscrew" the lid of the tin (those factory tins are a bitch to get open) and the lid pops off, the primers go everywhere down in the grass. I guess he manages to find one and cap the rifle, fires, and misses, of course. Then he says something like "oh well, that's hunting." That was the last time I watched him. I didnt know he wound up shooting off a finger.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

That's another reason I don't like a fly in the tumbler. Without one if the hammer gets pulled back on a branch the sear should drop back into the half cock notch. It should but I still wouldn't bet my life on it.