Sound Shots

[rlehman]

Just wanted to pass on an experience from years ago. I was invited to go on a hunt with three friends to Wyoming. From Ohio, that's a chance of a lifetime. They made a big deal about getting together to sightin our guns. So one cold and wet day,we met at the range and I seemed to feel that they were watching me more then paying much attention to sighting in. As we left, I found out that I had passed the safety test and was welcomed in the group. It seems that I had replaced a fellow from the previous year, who returned to camp each night,and when asked if he saw anything, he reported how many 'sound shots' he had taken. :: I also felt better knowing that they took safety seriously.

 

[Rat]

Me still not understand what "sound shot" is...???

:hmm:

Sorry. Please explain...talk SLOWLY!!!

:huh:

Rat

 

[Rebel]

Shooting at a sound and not identifying your target by visual means

 

[cayugad]

I can remember a new fellow who joined our group to make drives in little patches of woods trying to jump deer. At the end of the first drive he had fired twice. We asked if he had hit one and he said, no.. only sound shots. We about :: :: our pants... He did not seem to think it was a big deal after all he was not shooting to the side where the other drivers might be.

Needless to say we were one less driver for the rest of the day & season and word spread real fast on him and his hunting practices. Besides, he shot more deer in the local tavern then he ever did in the woods...

 

[tg]

I know of a fella who took a guys 30-30 who had just made a sound shot(the dude was a guest on private property where the fella had permission to hunt and bring friends) and buried it up to the forestock in the dirt, then told him to never set foot on that property again at the risk of having the barrel stuck somewhere else.... that fellas temper has calmed some with age but someone making a sound shot might just light that fire again.

 

[Rat]

Wow...I'd never heard of "sound shots" before. I knew that some people shoot at movement...which I think should be a hanging offense.

Anyone who does that ("sound shot") deserves to be beat within an inch of thier life with the barrel of that .30-30. NO hunter should tolerate that..."fighting" words for sure...we should all catch on fire anytime we meet anyone who admits to doing that.

Wow...I'm fired up right now! Learn something new every day I guess.

Rat

 

[olgriz]

This brings up a story. Somewhere in Montana or Wyoming there is a guy that is probably still mad at me, and this happened at least 20 years ago. I was at a rendezvous on the Flat Head, camping by myself. I met some guys from up in that country and we was in the course of passin' the jug and telling stories when I came up with this one. Seeing as how I come from Oregon where if it aint raining it's so foggy we have a problem hunting. Most of the time you can't see, so we have to practice making our sound shots. About this point this guy got mad as all get out and got right in my face about it. I'm still trying to tell the story, on account of he's going to be part of the punch line, but he gets so mad he storms off. The story goes on about what we do, which is blind fold the shooter and have someone take a hammer and tap on a gong about 50 yards out, and the blind folded guy shoots at the sound, and seeing as how we got nobody left to tap on the gong, maybe he'd be willing to volunteer to do it for me. Except he got so mad and stomped off before I got to that part, and I'm sure he's still telling stories about them stupid Oregonians making sound shots. I reckon there are some things a guy shouldn't joke about with strangers. :nono:

 

[Rat]

Ha ha that is funny. But the poor guy is probably afraid to go out in the woods now.

:crackup:

Rat

 

[BrownBear]

I only know of one sound shot first hand. It was aimed in my direction by a stranger. When I started yelling and running in his direction, it spooked him pretty good and he started running. Can't tell whether it was the supersonic crack of a bullet passing a couple of feet over his head, or if he believed me when I said I was going to kill him. Either way, I could still see him running when he passed into a clearing over half a mile away. Good to see a fat guy run that hard. Good to think it's the last sound shot he ever took, too.

Nuff sed.

 

[Rat]

Should have laid low, or snuck up on him, taken his rifle, and then give it back in about ten pieces. !!!

Rat.

 

[BrownBear]

I didn't say anything about him packing a rifle as he crossed the clearing. A little searching turned it up, barrel first in the dirt where he dropped it.

There are now signs in local sporting good stores: "Found Rifle. Identify and Claim."

Here fishy. Here fishy, fishy, fishy.

Man, I love trolling!

 

[sniper68]

I was on the receiving of a sound shot. While walking down an old road, killing time and folowing a set of fresh (small) deer tracks one Dec afternoon, as I approached a small rise in the road, I looked up from the tracks in the snow just in time to see a hunter raise his shotgun point at me (I think) and fire!!! He was about 60 to 75 yards away. This was in pre blaze orange days and in a buckshot only county. I commenced yelling bad things at him and fired back before I realized what I was doing. He vanished. I checked to see if I had hit him or not. Clean miss, never did have much faith in buckshot. What amazed me is that I could do all that with no heart beat. There is no excuse to ever let a bullet or arrow fly without knowing exactly where it is going. ::