Dog shoots its master

[y2blade]

found on another forum

Unbelievable but true.


A hunter trying to retrieve duck decoys got a surprise when he was accidentally shot by his own dog.

The accident occurred Saturday when the female Labrador retriever stepped on her owner's loaded shotgun, causing the safety to disengage and the weapon to fire, according to the Merced County Sheriff's Department.

The 53-year-old victim was hit in the upper left back with No. 2 shot.

http://www.fresnobee.com/updates/story/1804155.htm...

All that Merced County Sheriff’s spokesman Tom MacKenzie would say is that the 53-year-old man was hit in the upper back with No. 2 birdshot from a 15-yard distance.

A typical one-ounce load of No. 2 birdshot contains 125 steel pellets that exit the muzzle at up to 1,500 feet per second. At 15 yards and full choke, the spread pattern would be 16 inches in diameter, Turner said.

That’s about the size of a large pizza.

“It boggles my mind that he’s even alive,” Turner said. “He’s lucky the pellets didn’t cut him in half.”

http://www.fresnobee.com/1100/story/1807839.html

[Sixpackpert]

y2blade said:

...would be 16 inches in diameter, Turner said.

That’s about the size of a large pizza.

That's not fair, the largest I can get delivered locally is only 13 inches.

[soad]

Never lay down a loaded gun - it's stupidity darwinism at it's best.

Guy lucky not to get killed.

[juice]

Proper Gun Dog that..

[theironduke]

Deserves it, leaving a loaded shotgun (any firearm) lying around is just asking for trouble. Tit.

[jeff m]

If he made me repeatedly jump into icy water I'd have shot him too.