New training technique - ever been shot at before?

[alecstilleyedye]

I've been shot at as a beater when the gun lost track of where the line was and went for a fox running towards it. We weren't expecting to have a load of shot falling around us!
I also got shot at by kids with BB guns last summer whilst climbing a hill...seems a lycra clad cyclist constitutes a bit of target practice - 2 small bruises on my arse and side! Not much you can do when you're already out of the saddle, but I told the local PCSO the next day who knew exactly who they were. A week later they gave an 8 year old stitches to the face so clearly nothing was done.

you are greg lemond aicmfp

 

[Arch]

It's a bit like that in the Languedoc when the hunters are on the trail of a sanglier (wild boar). My father in law has been shot at, we have had hunting dogs accompany us twice - they wear a bell and it can seem like a high speed cow running alongside! Men in orange caps sitting by the roadside cradling rifles is a bit wierd for a naive brit on a bike...

I suspect you'd come off worst if you met an angry sanglier too! Being hit by (or hitting) one of them would be like being hit by a bus, I think...

 

[Aperitif]

I suspect you'd come off worst if you met an angry sanglier too! Being hit by (or hitting) one of them would be like being hit by a bus, I think...

You haven't seen me Arch - they'd run a mile and jump into the hunters van!

 

[bobg]

Not exactly shot at but had a 12 bore jammed in my chest along with the comment " get outa my f....... house" Contrary to what you see on the TV I "got out" pdq and didnt stop till I got to the nearest pub!!

 

[Aperitif]

They are rather careful round Nexon area and always post someone in high-vis on the road.

I did get nipped by a hunting dog and complained to the owner when I found him. He was clearly embarrassed and apologised profusely.

I'm thinking of producing a range of sanglier-sized hi-viz! Should go down well with the chasseurs!
Poor little piggy wiggies!

Agreed - hunters are a careful bunch - and mostly friendly. (Note to self: don't wear Foska 'Bovril' shirt in the forest - just in case...)

 

[Ranger]

I suspect you'd come off worst if you met an angry sanglier too! Being hit by (or hitting) one of them would be like being hit by a bus, I think...

You aren't wrong. My Dad hit one in his car and wrote the car off, the thing that pissed him off the most was the boar got up and ran off

 

[Mr Pig]

When I was a kid there was a guy building a house over the park from us. When we used to walk through the lane next to it he'd yell at us and wave his shotgun! We used to be terrified to go through the lane!

It's funny to look back on that. If he'd done that these days he'd get jailed! Back then he was just the nutter with the shotgun.

 

[Fab Foodie]

It's a bit like that in the Languedoc when the hunters are on the trail of a sanglier (wild boar). My father in law has been shot at, we have had hunting dogs accompany us twice - they wear a bell and it can seem like a high speed cow running alongside! Men in orange caps sitting by the roadside cradling rifles is a bit wierd for a naive brit on a bike...

I had exactly that happen in The Languedoc 2 years ago, loud close-range rifle shot... I almost soiled my Brooks!

 

[Arch]

You aren't wrong. My Dad hit one in his car and wrote the car off, the thing that pissed him off the most was the boar got up and ran off

When I was a kid, I rode into a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog that ran out of a neighbour's house into the road. I was knocked clean off, and the dog just stood there and looked down at me lying on the tarmac...

Hmm, how many homophones of 'rode' can you get in one story?