September 17, 2005
AT LEAST THE SQUIRRELS ENJOYED THE SHOW:
Dog shoots man (Daily Telegraph, September 16, 2005)
A TUSSLE over prey between a Bulgarian hunter and his hound ended when the dog shot the man.Posted by Orrin Judd at September 17, 2005 8:30 PMThe man lost his temper and began beating his Deutsch-Drahthaar hunting dog with a rifle when the animal refused to release a killed bird it had brought back.
But the dog's paw caught the trigger and the hunter was blasted with buckshot.
There's the man's problem right there. He's hunting birds with a _rifle_, one that's apparently loaded with buckshot.
Or, thanks to gun control in the UK no reporter can be expected to know anything about guns.
Posted by: H.D. Miller at September 17, 2005 11:03 PMEverything's wrong with the gun part of this story.
Reporters aren't the only ones who no know very little about guns. In my experience, most lawyers were shockingly ignorant about guns and ammunition.
Interestingly enough, most judges were reasonable savvy in this regard. At the time of this observation, just post-Vietnam, it seemed to me to be a generational thing. The judges, being older, either had used guns or had had studied firearms and firearms forensics as a matter as professional responsibility. The younger guys, mostly having Clintonized themselves out of military service, seemed aggressively proud in their ignorance.
Needless to say, A lawyer who knew a great deal about guns had a big advantage in handling gun cases.
Posted by: Lou Gots at September 18, 2005 5:15 AMLou, H.D. Miller
check this Article Doesn't the fact that one has "rifled barrel" on a shotgun (even if stupidly loaded with buckshot) make the shotgun by definition a rifle. Also here
Posted by: h-man at September 18, 2005 6:40 AMh: that's for deer and turkeys, you don't hunt upland birds with that. And you wouldn't load up with buckshot even if you did. The giveaway is the breed of the dog. Drathaars are fancified pointers.
H.D.: That's probably why the dog shot him, for being such an idiot. Too bad he couldn't have got the reporter instead.
Posted by: joe shropshire at September 18, 2005 3:36 PM