On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:37:42 -0800, xray
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:46 GMT, "Dave Lyon"
wrote:

15 minutes later, he was telling me about the raccoon that he found in his
mother's attic. She lived in a very populated area. He took out his hand gun
and shot at it 5 times!

Reminds me of a story I read once about a lady who found a rattlesnake
in her kitchen. She killed it with a shotgun. As I recall, it took four
or five shots.
My W94 was sold to me at age 16 by the local conservation officer
after he inherited another rifle from a long time friend. His
statement at the time was "I know I will never have to seize it if you
have it." The worst horror story he had was about the chap in a row
boat on a choppy lake, shooting at the stove pipe of a small shack a
couple hundred yards away with a high powered rifle. When he asked the
chap what the H*** he was doing, the reply was "Oh I'm just giving my
kids a bit of a scare!"
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada