I'm not a golfer but 'You da man!', Phil.

PB,

15 seconds of fame...shoulda just left it at that.

Not many of us get that "second chance" at being a legend.

Ouch...

way to go bertie bee! oh and nice shoot phill

Becoming a shooting legend is not an easy task. You have much to learn young grasshopper...

This one made me laugh right out loud. You know you are really cool when you are alright with being uncool. Nice job.

Phil, got a question for'ya, if you straddled a 3 foot rattlesnake all coiled up, the head is in strike position and your rifle is on your shoulder, your 3 hours to the nearest pavement and you only had one choice was to fall straight bag and as your body obtained a 45 degree angle you quick draw your Ruger 44 Mag Super Blackhawk and from the hip shoot the snake at the base of its head and 3 other places on its body with no harm to yourself, what would you call it?

You can still be a legend in your own mind Phil, you definitely won't be lonely on this site;)

ClayCooper;

I'd call it bad luck. I'd say, "Man, too bad there was nobody here to see that shot, because nobody will believe me if I tell them about it."

To quote Malcolm, "Life is unfair."

My best shot ever was done in front of my (deceased) brother. From about 40 yards I shot out the nickle sized piece of blue stained glass that comprised the tail part of the arrow shaped weather vane on top our garage. Open sights, Daisy BB gun, one shot. I was eight at the time; I don't think my dad let me touch another gun until I was about fourteen. Sometimes its best not to have a crowd.

focusfront

I had witnesses! When they turned to see what and where the shot came from, I was on my back covered by one hell of a dust cloud. They asked if I was ok, I don't know, just straddled a snake. Before I knew it, they had my boots and pants off checking if I was hit!

Been shaken up before, but this is ranked up on the top 10 list!

good thing to teach your kid.

jamesti

Call it, The back firing go ahead and shoot and shut up kid scenario!

They both learned a lesson, not to try that again!

O'by the way, the Seagull survived and took back to the air 5 weeks later!

When I was a kid, around 12, We use to love shooting cottontails out of the garden. My older brother and I would take turns. The garden was about 150yds from the back door. One evening I went to check the garden and there was a rabbit in it. I ran back to the house and grabbed the .22. My brother, who is 5 yrs older started yelling that it was his turn to shoot. I knew he would take the gun from me so as soon as I got outside, I threw up the gun and fired at the rabbit which was a good 100yds away. I hit him right in the noggin! My brother looked at me and said "Holy $h!t". Then punched me for awhile.

That is just shameful. And having been taught so well just a week before... tsk tsk tsk.

Clay Cooper:

I bow.

what are you going to do. you have to be yourself. so what, you passed up a chance to be a fake. it is probably better that way anyway. because if you are a legend, and a point comes when you HAVE to make a great shot in front of witnesses, and you blow it. they will all know that you were a fake from the beginning. then you will find out what cold shoulders are all about!

Hehe, the talk of shooting rabbits reminded me about when I lived in Linwood NJ, now NJ is no friend to gun nuts to start with and Linwood even more so.
Where I lived was in one of those "developments" type areas, house after house all looking like it was from the same mold, with a patch of grass out front and and another out back with a narrow strip between the houses.
We had a strip of trees out back and a commercial development just beyond. Needless to say no one hunted the area, well, almost no one. ;-)

Picked off many rabbits and squirrels in the backyard there over the years, only shooting when a tree trunk was behind the target so I knew where the bullet stopped, snipering them from inside my house thru an open window to contain most of the sound from the 22.

I'd shoot then wait about 15 minutes and send Kelly, our Irish Setter, out back to retrieve it. Kelly was trained for directed retrieves, so it was easy to stand at the back door and tell her to "get it" pointing in the animal's direction, she would find it and bring it back in. God I miss that dog..........

Even got one rabbit with bow and arrow, was target practicing with the bow and an un-lucky bunny happened by. First and only small game I've taken by bow, and at about 30 yds. Have shot at a few squirrels during Deer season but never quite connected. However planting an arrow in the ground right under a squirrel's belly is a funny show in it's self!

Moishe

Bo Gritz is a renegade and a liar. About half the SF stuff published about him is his own fabrication and eith unverifiable or discredited. He was not a Colonel either. Lieutenant "Telephone" Colonel was his highest rank held. I don't think the boy is all there.

Lots of reports and contradictions of his alledged exploits out there.

Don't try that in Utah. Seagulls are protected. You can't shoot them. When I was in school out there they used to brazenly come right up to people on the quad and steal their sandwiches from them right out of their hands.

Clay Cooper wrote:

"A 7 year old kid wanted to bust at a seagull flying in orbit overhead with a 410. The Father looked up and it was way up there and knowing the kid was shooting 2 3/4 with 7 1/2 shot said go for it! BOOM! DAMN! Down came the Seagull! TIME TO LEAVE! Who would ever thought!!"

This happened to a friend of mine.

He was a new 2nd Lt, who had volunteered to go to Vietnam and was assigned to a medical unit.

Being a professional, he didn't have to go through basic training, but they were giving him and some others a run through on the M16. The whole 'what to do if you're overrun, so you don't get captured' thing.

He's a small guy, about five four and under one fifty. When they get to the shooting from a crouch part, he fires, the recoil knocks backward and over he goes, arse over teakettle, spraying an entire magazine on full auto as he went, waving the rifle around in the air on a rifle range full of people.

The noncom giving him the training just about had a shite hemorrhage. I guess it *did* make him a shooting legend though.

Not sure the point is to become a legend in your own mind or that of others. The point is to KNOW you can always hit your target without the benefit of a bench/shooting stick or audiance

@WA Mtnhunter

I doubt it. It's pretty damned embarrassing thing to have happen. Not the type of thing you make up to tell people about.

Now if it were a story about a 1000 yard snap shot with a .38 revolver that killed a ten point buck cold, I'd be the first one to be calling bulls*hit.