*sigh* I'm loosing my touch. (Warning: Hi-jacked by Em)

[Bunnylady]

So I'm sitting on my back steps, putting my shoes on, when I hear 3 rapid gunshots from over near my barn. The horses came running out of the barn, and for one panicky moment. I thought someone was shooting at them. But there's nothing between the barn and the house, and anyone who could see the horses would also see me on the porch. I couldn't see the person(s) with the gun, but they were on the dirt road at the back of the property, about 30 feet from the barn; they couldn't really be so stupid as to shoot at someone's horses with them watching, right in the line of fire, could they?

I hurried toward the barn, and could hear the sound of the "action" of the gun. Moments later, I heard several more shots, and my horses stampeded toward the house. As loud as I could, I yelled, "Hey! Would you mind not doing that on my back step?!"

Crazy, I know, but I was about 20 feet from the shooter when I yelled, and neither of us could see the other. That's what woods are like around here! By the time I managed to work my way back to the road, they were nowhere to be seen.

I hope that they really had no clue how close they were to an occupied dwelling, though you'd think all my crowing roosters would have given them at least a clue, wouldn't you?

 

[Wisher1000]

You sound like me, Bunny.

I was walking around my coop one morning with my coffee when I saw a dog running through the woods about twenty feet from the coop. I then saw two guys (hunters) chasing the dog, presumably hunting squirrels. I high tailed it to the house threw on some sweats and grabbed my pistol. My DH saw me as I rushed in and back out and ran after me frantically asking what I was doing. I explained as I ran and he wanted to know why I grabbed my gun. He was of the opinion that it was fine that they were hunting there. While it was on the adjacent property, the dog could have diverted from it's squirrel trail and taken up chicken hunting. I was only going to warn them to take care not to accidently hunt chickens on my side of the line. DH wanted to know if I was okay to do that (he thought I was angry) and assured me the hunters were "fine" and I didn't need my gun. My comment was, "Good, we can all be fine together, they can be fine with their guns and I will be fine with mine." They had moved off to the next hill by the time I got back out there, but I hung around to make sure the dog didn't come back to chase chickens.

I didn't mind them being there, I didn't mind them shooting squirrels, what I didn't like was the fact that the dog was that close to the coop and the hunters were too far away to correct the dog if it forgot it's training. Sour, do your dogs ever forget what the are supposed to be tracking and chase something else?

 

[sourland]

Quote:
Only if they get the chance.

You were right to be concerned.

lady, whoever was shooting that close to your barn is the sort that gives hunters a bad name.

 

[Bunnylady]

Yeah. I believe North Carolina law requires a minimum distance of 100 yards from an occupied dwelling, and this was maybe 50. Besides, that road doesn't precisely follow the property lines, and technically, he was on my property without my permission. Perhaps because the county has put some wells back there, some folks assume that all the wooded area here is county-owned, but it's not. The county only purchased roughly two-acre parcels to put the wells on; everything else is still private land. Now, if somebody wants to go back there and blow away a few beer cans, I don't really care, but I think he should know where he is and what he's doing. I assume he was shooting along the same line as the road, facing west. I sure hope so, because to the east it's solid residential development, starting, oh, about 250 feet from where he stood. To the north was my house. About 150 feet to the south, on the other side of more dense woods, is a farm where they breed Arabian horses with 6-figure price tags. Where this guy was standing, he only had maybe a 20 degree arc where there wasn't something somebody would get really excited about him hitting within a few hundred feet of him.

 

[Bunnylady]

Anybody got any idea why I've had this song as an earworm for the last two weeks?!

It's getting ridiculous. I even risked "What Does the Fox Say," and even that couldn't shake it!

 

[Wisher1000]

Do you want another one? I know several.

 

[Alaskan]

Try "this is the house that jack built" by Aretha Franklin

 

[Wisher1000]

Muppets theme?

 

[Bunnylady]

BB2K has been trying to help with Owl City tunes, but they keep making me fall asleep . . .

 

[Alaskan]

Did you try my suggestion? Huh? Huh?