I've had 2 close calls.

* I was walking out of the woods one night about 30 minutes after dark. I heard a gun go off fairly close and a slug hit the stock of my gun!![:@] Scared the living **** out of me. Evidentally someone took a poke at a deer afterhours. Go figure......... "those petty grey area laws". I yelled a few profanities that way, but never headed over there for obvious reasons. I had a pretty good idea who did it and I paid him a visit to have a "talk" with him. Let's just say I don't think he'll be firing away after light anymore.So .....yeah I have a little thing about shooting at night. Probably should be dead on that one.

* The other one was my last deer drive I've ever taken part in. Years ago we had a group of 8 or so doing some drives. I happened to be one of the standers on this drive. I was sitting at the edge of a pond tucked down in some catails overlooking an open field waiting for the deer to come busting out. Next thing I know I hear shots ripping away from where the drivers are pushing!![:@] It was known between us that who ever is doing the driving DOES NOT SHOOT PERIOD!! Most of the time they don't even carry a gun. Apparantely the group doing the driving ran into another hunter in a stand and the guy said he'd just join the drive and call it a day. They thoroughly explained not to shoot and pointed out there were standers ahead of them. I guess he didnt' get the picture because a buck jumped out and off went the parade of shots. I hit the dirt face first and could hear 5 shots ripping through the catails and the whistling of slugs going by me as the guy yelled "ITS A BUCK!!" I caught up with after the drive and had a "talk" with him too. Needless to say that's the last drive I have done and will ever do.