January 25th, 2007

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Brian’s Been Shot at Three Times

You know, I don’t really go in for the bloggy memes very often–they just seem like tricks to generate content to me.

However, I did enjoy reading Brian’s recent ’5 things you didn’t know about me’ post. Apparently he’s been shot at in anger three times:

I’ve had a gun fired at me in anger on three occasions:

1) By racist skinheads as I waited outside the Saskatoon Arena for a Metallica concert December 15, 1986. (Like Jeremy, I’ve seen Metallica twice, though not since 1989.)

2) By the raving drunk foreman of my treeplanting crew at the culmination of a riotous day-long bush party.

3) In Hermosillo, two young women and I walked past a group of drunken hoodlums that made some lewd remarks and we responded with derision. A few minutes later a shot was fired from across a vacant lot and it took us a few seconds to figure out what that whistling sound above our heads really was.

I had no idea he had such a sordid past. I trimmed the second one, but you can read the whole story over on this site.

I don’t know that I’ve even been in the vicinity of three guns being fired, never mind being the target. Let’s see…

  1. At Camp Kawkawa when I was 12, when I won the second prize in riflery.
  2. Visiting old family friends in the Yukon, where I blew the crap out of a small tree with a shotgun.
  3. Nope, just the two times.

I’ve often thought I’d enjoy target shooting, and the odds are that I wouldn’t be terrible at it, giving all the hand-eye coordination practice I get via computer games.

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Andy K
January 25th, 2007
2:50 pm

I always thought target shooting was about relaxing, slowing down the heart (so you can pull the trigger between pulses), and not twitching.

In high school, I went to my friend’s house late at night and knocked at his window because he was supposed to still be up. I mistakenly knocked at his sister’s window, and his mother had a shotgun pointed at the window 20 seconds later, while I was still waiting outside.

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Hamish M
January 25th, 2007
6:11 pm

Pellet/BB guns are fun, and probably easier to use than “the real deal”. Last summer I had some fun with them at a friend’s cottage, trying to shoot ducks in the nearby lake.

Ok, so they weren’t real ducks. The neighbors had some of those fake wooden ones floating behind their house. They had “shoot me” written all over them ;)

I myself have never been shot at for real, thankfully.

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