My cousin and I are tracking a buck that I shot around first dark one evening. He's got his 12 gauge shotgunin case a follow-up shot is needed. We cross a creek and around this time it's pitch black and both flashlights are dimming. All of a sudden we hear a gun go off right next to us. I jump on the ground and cover my head, he's looking around, I'm yelling HEY...HEY...HEY. He looks back at me on the ground and says, "Man you didn't see that big snake right there on the ground?" I'm like what snake, "its pitch black dark out here how could you possibly have seen a snake?" I thought somebody was shooting at us. About a month later he confessed. This idiot forgot to put his gun on safety and has one in the chamber. He accidentally pulled the trigger and the shotgun went off. Needless to say, I won't be hunting with him anymore, he could have killed one of us. It's funny now but man was I heated.