“Northeast Iowa authorities are investigating a shooting where a 27-year-old man injured himself,” m.lacrossetribune.com reports. “The Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office said the incident happened at about 4:30 am at a home near Lansing. Authorities say Logan Bunn fired a gun at a tree outside the home, but the bullet bounced back and hit him. Police were notified after Bunn showed up at a La Crosse hospital. Bunn is expected to survive. The Sheriff’s Office says no foul play is suspected.”
A rubber tree? The bullet bounced back and hit him? That tree don’t take sh!t from nobody.
I was about to comment the same… that’s one tough mudda of a tree.
In Soviet Russia, drunk tree shoots you!
Was he hunting in the Petrified Forest?
And they said that the tree’s bark was worse than its bite.
The story seems to be curiously thin on the specifics of the injury.
Do you suppose it has something to with what part(s) got shot?
Looks like another Military Arms Channel fan.
“The Sheriff’s Office says no foul play is suspected.”
Jack Daniels is being sought for questioning.
The tree has been detained. No word on the health of Bunn’s dogs…
That is a wicked tree, run before it kills you.
The police are stumped as to how this happened.
They suggested he leaf the area before a problem takes root.
Of course no foul play was suspected, the guy was a real sap.
It sounds like they may have found the root cause….
See, even trees use the second amendment!
So much is left out of this story–what caliber and type of weapon, what was the man aiming at, what type of tree, and so forth.
The first time i fired .45ACP was directed at my trusty back stop tree( A big Red pine). After the 10 or so shots I heard a distinct sound of a bullet hitting the garden fence, 45 degrees to my right. Sure enough the .45 FMJ was deflected out the side of the tree somehow.
That was the scariest learning experience I have had with a firearm.
Your trusty backstop tree had bullets lodged in it and your shot hit one of these and deflected. Most likely.
Sounds more like a freak accident than a IGO article. Accidents happen.
I shot some birdshot at the base of a cut down tree once and had a bunch of pellets come back at me with a few pelting my torso. Startled me. I was glad I had eye protection on.
My local paper makes the blog…Wohoo! Until it’s about a moron that shot a tree!
I have a friend that lost a lung as a child shooting a .22 at a tree. Bounced off a nail right back at him. Shit happens, think ahead.
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