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KansasGsp

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I know there's been threads in the past on boneheaded things we've done while hunting, I myself have a new one for you. Funny thing is that this stuff usually doesn't ever happen to me. Last week and buddy and I were hunting some walk-in and as we were driving around checking fields, a rooster walked from private ground onto walk-in. He pulled over and I let a dog out and we began to work the bird. My dog trailed him 200 yards and when it decided to hold, it sat tight. I kicked him up and pulled the trigger and nothing. The wind was blowing so he got caught in the wind and just hung there. I had time to break my gun, check for shells, close it, and pull the trigger again. The second pull was the same as the first. I watched the bird fly away and I invented a few cuss words. I got looking and the barrel selector was moved between the top and bottom barrels and therefore wouldn't fire. I walked back to the truck to show my buddy (who was laughing) what had happened.
We head out again a few days ago and about 15 minutes into the first field a rooster jumps up in front of me. I shoulder the gun, pull the trigger, NOTHING! I had forgot to fix the problem from the last time out. I just laughed along with my buddy this time. Two lucky Kansas roosters I'm sure are also laughing their rears off at me as well.
 
Kgsp,

yup, LOl. Sometime's your entertained, and Sometime's your the entertainment. :rolleyes: I've been known to show up In the feild without a gun or ammo. You'll get them next time.:)
 
Welcome to the club, here's your sign - I made my deer-hunting buddies spew food & milk all over the table at the local cafe EARLY one morning at breakfast be4 the hunt, when after driving all the way there I suddenly realized & blurted out, "Oh Shoot, I 4got my bullets!" :eek: :D :10sign:
 
Gosh you mean to tell me I aint the only guy who does things like this, gosh I feel so much better knowing I aint loosing it. Must be in the hunting genes :) right.
 
copheasanthunter said:
Gosh you mean to tell me I aint the only guy who does things like this, gosh I feel so much better knowing I aint loosing it. Must be in the hunting genes :) right.
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i did it today..took the pointers out to keep them sharp and shot a few planted birds. Brought them back and took a few beagles out and they ran one 20 minutes brought it around 3 times. Well third time I pulled up the 410 and click no shells. brought it around again safty on.. he will live another day..:confused::(
 
I can relate to your frustration.
My brother was driving deer and pushed a doe and fawn by me at 15 yards. I had a solid rest and put the crosshairs on her head and made a little noise to get her to stop. She looked straight at me and I pulled the trigger and immeidiately realized I forgot to pull the hammer back on my Encore. She didn't stay around long enough for me to get the hammer back.
 
thats alright, last year on opening day i pulled on 4 roosters to only realize i didnt have a shell in the chamber!!! lol it was the first day, i wasnt in the right state of mind yet
 
Confessional time, goodey! I hunted out west after a big ice storm that measured 4 inches of rain. In the first patch, we were hunting terraced CRP. Every terrace was full of water that's frozen over. I get to the first terrace. The dogs go around the road end of it and I go around the pool the other way only to look up and see both dogs on point in the road ditch. First step through the ice and the bird is up, no shot. We move along jumping flooded terraces. I look up and the male's pointing toward the road again. I walk in from the grass toward the road and flush the rooster right up the driveway across the road. The rooster banks between the house and barn, no shot. Winds blowing 50 mph all day. I get to the last patch, my favorite, a full section. We work 2 sides pushing scent all the way. Get to the third side and start playing pheasant golf. I collect 2 birds by the time we get to the last side. All the sudden I reallize my legs are weighing a ton. I'm working hard just to make it back to the truck. River crosses 70 yards in front and locks down facing me. I struggle to get to his point. A rooster flushes at 7 yards and flys right up my gun barrel. I start to raise gun and boom, boom, fire both barrels before I can get it shouldered. Had to laugh! Hollered at the dogs, "load up, we better head home while I can still make it". It happens!!!
 
KansasGsp said:
I know there's been threads in the past on boneheaded things we've done while hunting, I myself have a new one for you. Funny thing is that this stuff usually doesn't ever happen to me. Last week and buddy and I were hunting some walk-in and as we were driving around checking fields, a rooster walked from private ground onto walk-in. He pulled over and I let a dog out and we began to work the bird. My dog trailed him 200 yards and when it decided to hold, it sat tight. I kicked him up and pulled the trigger and nothing. The wind was blowing so he got caught in the wind and just hung there. I had time to break my gun, check for shells, close it, and pull the trigger again. The second pull was the same as the first. I watched the bird fly away and I invented a few cuss words. I got looking and the barrel selector was moved between the top and bottom barrels and therefore wouldn't fire. I walked back to the truck to show my buddy (who was laughing) what had happened.
We head out again a few days ago and about 15 minutes into the first field a rooster jumps up in front of me. I shoulder the gun, pull the trigger, NOTHING! I had forgot to fix the problem from the last time out. I just laughed along with my buddy this time. Two lucky Kansas roosters I'm sure are also laughing their rears off at me as well.
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I had a similar occurance several times this year. I bought a new benelli montefeltro. The gun was still tight and sometimes would not close all the way so when I pulled the trigger, the firing pin would not reach.
 
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I did it this year. My main gun is a Beretta semi, and I have an O/U as my secondary gun - I almost never shoot it. Quail hunting this year my buddy's son didn't have a gun, so I let him use my Beretta because it shoots so soft. On 2 different flushes I raised the O/U and *click* - I kept hitting barrel selector over instead of safety off.
 
That selector is a "noise control device." Failure to place it in the right position will prevent your gun from making noise . . .
 
nothing beats my bonehead move I had a new gun i shot good with it ok so i went to a field trial took the new gun no big deal right WRONG i am used to a pump gun not an auto loader first i forgot to put a shell in the chamber bird gets up click and right after the click i am trying to pump a shell into the chamber for the repeat shot nothin happening the judge actually says to me hey i think you have the wrong gun and after i looked at him like he was retarded I realized i was the retarded one and it was the wrong gun cost me first place that day and i still havent lived it down at that hunting club :o
 
We had driven a few hours and got out to hunt the first field of the day. As I'm pulling out my gun I realize something doesn't look right. I stare at it a couple seconds and then a flurry of words I can't repeat here start flowing. I had forgotten to put the chokes back in my O/U. We had to drive to Dick's in Topeka so I could get new choke tubes. I learned my lesson that day. And now I have plenty of chokes to choose from.
 
well at least all you had to buy was two chokes, you made mention to the fact that you now have many chokes to pick from now, are you saying you have done this before and now because of it you have many. :)
 
Barrel selector stuck

Hey KGsp, what type of gun? I just checked my Brownings and it did look like I could sometimes get the selector to stay in the middle, but then I could not push it forward to release the safety. To release the safety, the selector had to be all the way right or left.

From the confessional side, I've:
Forgot that I was carrying a pump instead of a semiA and went bang, pull, aargh
Forgot to release the trigger on my O/U so it went pull, bang, pull harder, aargh.
Forgot to put shell/shells in chamber
Forgot to release safety
Forgot to release magazine cutoff on semiA so I had a single shot gun

Luckily, I discovered some of these bonehead moves after getting back to the truck without having a bird flush.
PairOfLabs
 
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