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Errant Bullet Travels 1.5 Miles, Kills Amish Girl
WLWT ^ | 12:01 pm EST December 20, 2011 | WLWT

Posted on 12/20/2011 9:38:28 AM PST by TSgt

FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio -- An Ohio sheriff says a man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle accidentally shot and killed a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away.

Holmes County Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said Tuesday that the accident occurred Thursday night when a man fired his loaded rifle to clean it. He says the victim, Rachel Yoder of Fredericksburg, was nearly 1.5 miles away when she was shot in the head.

No charges have been filed.

Yoder was shot while traveling to her home in adjacent Wayne County, between Columbus and Akron. She was riding alone after attending a Christmas party for employees, most under 18 years old, who work at an Amish produce farm.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: amish; banglist; bullet; crime; ohio; rachelyoder; shooting; yoder
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To: Cicero

Usually muzzle loader season is very good to hunters. I’d try it out. Traditons has some nice ones that you might find useful. I have a .50 and I can shoot cloverleafs at 100 yards with ball and patch.


201 posted on 12/20/2011 4:21:18 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: buffaloguy

Wish I were close by. I’d love to join you.

Take care.


202 posted on 12/20/2011 4:29:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: buffaloguy

Cool...


203 posted on 12/20/2011 4:31:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: buffaloguy

I learned how to do that when talking to my first wife. LOL

Couldn’t resist...


204 posted on 12/20/2011 4:32:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: TSgt

Every time I see one of these stories, I think “you can’t clean a loaded gun”....he was either incompetent (where I wish he’d just shot himself), or he was playing around....either way, he wasn’t cleaning a gun.


205 posted on 12/20/2011 4:32:58 PM PST by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: buffaloguy

Wow, I didn’t know that. I thought you’d have to use a scope.


206 posted on 12/20/2011 4:33:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: DoughtyOne

The targets can be seen clearly by anyone with 20/20 vision. The difficult part is getting the bullet to the target accurately.

The apogee of the bullets flight ....200 feet, 4 and 1/3 inches. If I do that I am should be hitting center on a day with not too much wind.


207 posted on 12/20/2011 4:38:13 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: coolbreeze
And you unload a muzzle loader how again?
208 posted on 12/20/2011 4:41:34 PM PST by null and void (Day 1064 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Retired COB

As an aside, I’ve seen a lot of Amish people over the years, but have not ever seen a buggy being driven by one of their females....just sayin’.


Then you haven’t been around Shipshewana or Nappanee very much.


209 posted on 12/20/2011 4:51:24 PM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: buffaloguy

So you’re shooting two thirds of a football field high. Interesting.


210 posted on 12/20/2011 4:53:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: DoughtyOne

The math on this shooting is amazing and is a big draw for me. I love it.


211 posted on 12/20/2011 4:54:24 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: null and void

Not by shooting it in the air..uncap it or remove the frizzen powder...if need be, shoot it in the ground.


212 posted on 12/20/2011 4:54:49 PM PST by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: coolbreeze
Not by shooting it in the air

Yeah.

uncap it or remove the frizzen powder

And then you swab the barrel with the patch, ball and charge still in it?

213 posted on 12/20/2011 5:01:31 PM PST by null and void (Day 1064 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Don’t forget that buffalo hunter William Dixon killed a Comanche warrior at 1,500 yards with an aimed shot during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls while using a black powder Sharps buffalo rifle.

Several hundred feet short of a mile with an aimed shot. If it wasn’t made from a high perch over a canyon , I would doubt the validity of the story also


214 posted on 12/20/2011 5:06:17 PM PST by Figment
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To: buffaloguy

You’re hitting the points I’d enjoy about it. Stop it! ;^)


215 posted on 12/20/2011 5:09:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: mamelukesabre

look up Minie Ball.


216 posted on 12/20/2011 5:09:36 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: DesertRhino

And anything fired from around 45 degrees angle,, returns to earth at etreme range, very close to muzzle velocity.

Care to back that up with a source? Very close to muzzle velocity? that’s BS


217 posted on 12/20/2011 5:15:13 PM PST by Figment
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To: mamelukesabre

>> sorry, not buying it.

There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm<<<

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!


218 posted on 12/20/2011 5:19:04 PM PST by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: catfish1957

The live in the freekin desert. Once you get out of their ugly towns, it’s miles and miles of sand and rocks.


219 posted on 12/20/2011 5:26:11 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: mylife

Around here we go pickerel shooting and that bullet ricochet is something you always have to be concerned about.


220 posted on 12/20/2011 5:41:16 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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