It is crazy around here to just sit and listen in the mountains on the public areas for series of automatic fire and alot of single shots at probably nothing. I used to wonder why anyone would want to bow hunt or use a single shot muzzleloader when i was young but after the past couple hunting seasons i feel for the single shotters out there, this year i've taken up muzzleloading and will be bow hunting the 07 season. everyone i know that takes any good deer take them in bow/muz. anyways, by the time gun comes everything good is either dead or scared out of its mind from all the people runnin around. if i have someone shoot at me and i see them i'd be hard pressed to not return fire with my sidearm. not trying to hit them but just to scare the wiz out of them. now i was shot at once while fishing. we where in the marina bya cousins houseboat. he has a light over the water on at all times and we just eased up beside the houseboat to crappie fish a few minutes. guy comes out about 50 yards away on his boat and starts off "what the $@!! are you doin, stealin?!" i told him it belonged to family and we where fishing, we even waved our rods in the air to show the guy and we where under a light so he could see. next thing i know he starts sayin we better get our thievin' butts awayor he'll use his .38spl.then he fires a shot into the air(which probably woke up everyone in the marina) and started cussin. after we fired up the motor I hollered at him and told him if he's lucky tonight his houseboat wont be sitting at the bottom of the lake with some holes in the hull. needless to say after that he didnt stay in the marina much longer until he was involuntarily evactuated from the area. and that kids is why i take my XD-40 everywhere i go