Sound Shots

[moosehunt]

Many years ago I lived back east, going to grad school at the Univ. of KY. At that time, about the only chance of getting a deer in KY was to hunt on the Ft. Knox military base--that was a drawing situation that if you were lucky you got about every other year. The season was one weekend. Everyone had to meet at a gate in the morning and a GI Joe would come let us in--had to be out by dark. I didn't have any luck the first day (saw does, which were legal, but was waiting for a buck), so was back the second morning. While waiting on GI Joe, guys were standing around BSing about yesterday. A couple guys voluteered that they'd gotten a couple "sound shots" the day before, but no luck. I couldn't believe what I thought they meant, so asked them. Sure enough, they were shooting at sound! I got in there and found a tree and sat down and never moved! Barely breathed! Pretty poor way to hunt, but I wasn't about to get up and actually hunt. Well, as luck would have it, a really dumb deer walked by, so I shot him. (The whole deal was pretty sad, as you had to hunt with a shotgun!). Anyway, now I have a deer that needs to be dressed, but I'm afraid to move! I finally got up and hollered and sang (that would scare most folks away) all the way to the deer. I continued the racket till I was done, then packed the whole damn thing out in one trip, just a singing and hollering. Like to died packing that whole deer, but I wasn't making a second trip! I never applied there again--course I never killed another deer in KY either, but at least I wasn't in fear of "sound shots" while I hunted. I came to find out about a month later that a guy I knew at school had been shot 5--yes, 5 times by a guy taking sound shots. The guy lived, though barely, because luckily, the idiot was using military solids in an M1 rifle!

 

[BADUNAME37]

moosehunt

That is an excellent story!

I'm glad you got your deer, but too bad you had to be scared to death the whole time.

Other hunters were probably wondering why the heck "this other guy is making so much frigging racket!"

LOL!

I hear ya!

 

[Geno]

Husker1911:

No urban legend...I saw it with my own eyes, as a fool out of Detroit was hunting the state land that borders our family farm. He fired several shots into the brush where "something" was running through. As he fired the third shot, a doe drops dead in the opening.

He spent the next 30 minutes seeking doe permit holders to tag the deer for him so he wouldn't get in trouble. If any of us did have a permit, we didn't admit it. When we all tried to explain to him that the noise could just have easily have been some person running to get help, he was completely non-emotional. He didn't see anything wrong with what he did, save for it being a doe.

Doc2005

 

[d2wing]

About a year ago a turkey hunter took a "sound shot" in Southern Minnesota.
He killed his own 5 year old son who was supposed to be waiting in the truck.
it turned out he didn't have a lic and may have been drinking as well. A deer hunter was also killed by a sound shot. Idiots. I am at a loss for words.

 

[Olympus]

Here's a good story about "sound shots". I was hunting a few years ago on some public ground. I usually hate hunting public ground, but because it was close to drive to and I had a limited amount of time, I decided to tough it out. I usually always try to be the first one in the woods and the last one out. Hunting on public ground, I'll get up in the stand 30 to 45 minutes before first light and when it gets light enough to see, I always see 3 or 4 spots of orange within the area I'm hunting. It just burns me up. But once, I was hunting in the afternoon on public and some guy comes stomping through the woods around 4:00, the best time for deer to start moving before it gets too dark to shoot. He absolutely ruined my hunting by walking by. He noticed me and nodded to me. He goes about 50 yards to the side of me and sits down behind a dead try. The guy is practically on top of me! When it got dark, I started climbing down and the guy walked up and was going to walk out with me. He says something like "Did you see anything today?" I'd been thinking about the best way to get rid of the guy so I replied with the most dead serious face I could, "No, I haven't seen anything. But I took a couple of good sound shots before you walked up. Don't think I hit anything though." I wished I could have had a camera for the look on the guys face. It took about 2 seconds for it to sink in that I said I took a "sound shot" and the fact that he realized he walked up on me. PRICELESS! Needless to say, he didn't hunt right underneath me the next day. I never saw him again!

 

[BADUNAME37]

I try to never kid or joke around when it comes to guns.

Just think how many people that guy may have told, then those people tell others, ad nauseum, until there are several thousand people that are now completely ANTI-GUN and ANTI-HUNTING, just from a little joke (that did get the guy away from you).

 

[Olympus]

Just think how many people that guy may have told, then those people tell others, ad nauseum, until there are several thousand people that are now completely ANTI-GUN and ANTI-HUNTING, just from a little joke (that did get the guy away from you).

I seriously doubt it went that far. The guy I was talking to was obviously hunting and carrying a gun so I highly doubt my comment turned him into someone who is anti-gun and anti-hunting. And if he did happen to tell other people, it would likely be other hunters or shooters. And they'd be pretty naive to sell their guns and stop hunting just because of a story. It's also just as likely that he didn't tell single person and forgot the instance completely. It was all in good fun and I seriously doubt it affected a single person in the way you're suggesting.

 

[BADUNAME37]

I never heard of the term "sound shots" until the day I posted this thread.

Before, I carefully deer hunted on private property with very little orange.

Now I wear an orange vest, hat and gloves.

I was affected by someone sharing it with ME.

 

[monkyboy1975]

I've heard stories of "sound shots" producing returned fire! what ever happened to identifying your target first?

 

[BADUNAME37]

Update!

The local hunter that had his leg amputated is still in critical condition at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Please be praying for him and his family.

From what I hear, they had no health insurance, although the hunter that shot him I'm sure will have to pay, through his homeowner's insurance, or whatever.

The region held a benefit auction for the hunter who was shot. The place was jam-packed full with a full parking lot and cars up and down the entire road!

People are being REAL GENEROUS to this hunter and his family! In this small rural community, everyone is helping each other out!

 

[sniper7369]

I've heard stories of "sound shots" producing returned fire! what ever happened to identifying your target first?

No kidding. Taking cover and returning fire would be my first reaction to being shot at. People who take "sound shots" have no place hunting or owning a firearm period. I can't even begin to put into words my disgust for those pukes.

 

[cerberus65]

Taking a sound shot should cost a person their hunting license for life - no ifs ands or buts.

And they should be charged with reckless endangerment or some such and thrown in jail.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Taking a sound shot should cost a person their hunting license for life - no ifs ands or buts.

And they should be charged with reckless endangerment or some such and thrown in jail.

Never mind the person they maim or kill!

 

[Dksimon]

Wow, how do people that stupid survive to adulthood?

I only hunt pheasant on public land. and around here you could see my orange for a mile away. Im not nearly trusting enough to hunt turkey or deer on public land.