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Video: Shooting mishaps compiled

SHOOTING -- Someone has gone to the effort of compiling video clips of shooting mishaps, including a lot of people getting thumped by high-powered guns.

Some incidents are humorous, some sad, some downright scary for the lack of thought and muzzle control.

It includes the the well publicized indicent of a firearms instructor discharging a handgun in class and several richochet near misses.

The clips also indicate that a lot of women are the butt of firearms shooting jokes, and they have the bruises and black eyes to prove it.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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