[mtbopfuyn]

What did the poor ground hog ever do that it needed to be killed? Good gawd, he was hanging out enjoying a nice spring day and gets two rounds in the head. Our kids brought in a baby bird yesterday. Here's hoping someone doesn't decide to shoot it when they release it back to the wild.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Why would your wife want to shoot a groundhog?

[Rebelbase]

My son's hamster just bit him through about 1/4" of the tip of his thumb back through to the underside of the nail.

We are contemplating the same thing.

[Eaker]

Groundhog ping!!

[Jasper]

Mmmmmm.......Groundhog

[lowbridge]

I was born on Feb 2, which is why they call it groundhog day.

If I dont stay out of your tree, will your wife come gunning for me too?

[Ghengis]

You and I live in the same neck of the woods. Between the groundhogs, racoons and the coyotes, I don't know which animals are swarming worse this spring.

[Squantos]

Good lord man are you insane ?!?!?!??! You gave the little woman the combo to yer gun safe ?????? That's like tellin the kids where yer secret stash of fig newtons are hidden !!.......what the heck were you thinkin......:o)

Great Story.......Stay Safe !

[bvw]

Is a wife's rifle a "wifle"?

[Bon mots]

I hope you live in a very, very remote area. As you well know, a 22 can travel for a mile or so before it hits the ground somewhere. You have to always think, not just what you are shooting at, but where will that bullet stop!

In Connecticut some years ago, a young boy was out shooting squirrels with his .22 rifle. He missed the squirrel, but on the other side of town a guy was stepping off his porch with his family to light the grill. The bullets stopped in his heart. Two lives ruined.

The bullet was traced to the boy shooting squirrels, so he got to find out that he killed a man in front of his family at a backyard picnic.

Ask yourself, "Where is that bullet going to stop?"

[Bon mots]

Not to be too much of a harping spoil-sport, but another true story from Connecticut...


Some good ole boys caught a shark in Long Island Sound one fine summer day. When you get a shark up close to the boat, he's trying to bite everything... like a psycho wood-chipper. So they pulled out their AR-15 and plugged him. Unfortunately, the bullet went right through the shark at an oblique angle, and began to ricochet and skip off the surface of the water. Just as you can skip rocks off of the water's surface, bullets can skip for great distances if the angle is right. Anyway, this particular bullet stopped after going through the windshield of a woman motorist on I-95 and lodging itself in her shoulder.

I like shooting as much as the next guy, but always ask yourself, "Where will that bullet stop?"

Correct me if I'm wrong but a 30.06 can go as far as 5 miles I believe, and a .22 can go a mile.