I posted this story on another thread, and after I did I got to thinking that maybe it would be better served in a thread by itself. I've worked in the medical field for the last 20 plus years, and have seen the results of stupid decisions people have made with firearms. Some are tragic, and some are funny. Thought a thread devoted to this would make for some interested reading. Here's one such story.
There are generally a lot of turkey shoots held around my area in the fall and this is when this incident took place. These two knuckle-heads were at a turkey shoot and at some point one of them bet the other that he could hold the target and not drop it while the other one shot it. So he gets behind a big pine tree and holds the 2 by 6 block of wood the target was mounted on out from behind the tree. The other genius shot it with a 12 gauge and #9 shot. Distance was about 60 feet. The victim, if you can call him that, had over 50 pellets in his hand and lower wrist. When this guy came to the hospital there was a universal feeling among us that he should have taped the target to his head.
There are generally a lot of turkey shoots held around my area in the fall and this is when this incident took place. These two knuckle-heads were at a turkey shoot and at some point one of them bet the other that he could hold the target and not drop it while the other one shot it. So he gets behind a big pine tree and holds the 2 by 6 block of wood the target was mounted on out from behind the tree. The other genius shot it with a 12 gauge and #9 shot. Distance was about 60 feet. The victim, if you can call him that, had over 50 pellets in his hand and lower wrist. When this guy came to the hospital there was a universal feeling among us that he should have taped the target to his head.
