Post by: wmenorr67 on July 09, 2008, 06:40:28 AM
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Woman Shoots Herself While Trying to Kill Mice
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POTTER VALLEY, Calif. A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person.
The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's officials said.
But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up in his coin pocket.
Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.
The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.
The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's officials said.
But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up in his coin pocket.
Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.
The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378142,00.html
Post by: Manedwolf on July 09, 2008, 06:42:09 AM
And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?
Post by: MechAg94 on July 09, 2008, 06:46:28 AM
Use the right tool for the job. A cheap straw broom would have been better.
Post by: wmenorr67 on July 09, 2008, 06:47:31 AM
Post by: charby on July 09, 2008, 06:48:52 AM
Post by: Tallpine on July 09, 2008, 06:51:35 AM
Post by: The Annoyed Man on July 09, 2008, 07:53:07 AM
Also, there's always 6mm Flobert. I'd like one of those
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Post by: HankB on July 09, 2008, 09:15:53 AM
Camera panned back, and there's Slim Pickins holding a smoking Peacemaker and saying something along the lines of "Now that I'm gettin' along in years, I have a harder time hittin' them varmints like I used to . . . that's why I use D-CON Mouse Poison."
Funny thing is, at the time we saw the commercial, my Dad, some of our buddies, and I were in a hunting cabin that DID have a mouse problem!
.22 handguns with #12 birdshot worked . . .
Post by: The Annoyed Man on July 09, 2008, 09:48:11 AM
And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?
Post by: MechAg94 on July 09, 2008, 11:01:41 AM
Post by: Standing Wolf on July 09, 2008, 12:08:36 PM
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And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?
A pre-lock S&W.
A pre-lock S&W.
Wrong. Smith & Wesson revolvers have had transfer bars for decades. They don't go bang when dropped, unless, of course, Bubba has been doing a little kitchen table gunsmithing.
99.999% of the time, "I dropped it and it went bang" is a lie.
Post by: RaspberrySurprise on July 09, 2008, 02:10:00 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 09, 2008, 02:42:59 PM
Remember a time my uncle pop an mouse in the house with a bb gun.
My daddy kilt one that-a-way.
Post by: Tallpine on July 09, 2008, 03:48:27 PM
As nature would have it, mice found the space between the ceiling and the floor to be a comfortable habitat.
There were bullet holes in the ceiling. One of the cowboys told me that some sojourners at the cabin would shoot at the mice with their pistols, aiming at the sound of little feet scurrying on the top of the ceiling.
It was hard to get to sleep upstairs while that was going on
Post by: LadySmith on July 09, 2008, 11:42:13 PM
I prefer a quieter and more ecologically sound method to solving my mice problems...
Snakes.
Post by: Tallpine on July 10, 2008, 07:27:58 AM
What a comedy/tragedy of errors.
I prefer a quieter and more ecologically sound method to solving my mice problems...
Snakes.
I prefer a quieter and more ecologically sound method to solving my mice problems...
Snakes.
Do your snakes sleep at the foot of your bed, and purr when you pet them ?