A Reddit user said one of the closest calls of his life happened when he was about 10 years old and hunting with his grandpa. According to his comment in the thread, the two of them were sitting together in a box stand on a gas line. It should have been a pretty controlled setup. They were elevated, watching the open line, and the kind of danger most people think about in that spot is a missed opportunity on a deer, not a bullet coming back at the stand.
He wrote that there was another hunter in a tree stand about 500 yards down the line. At some point, that hunter took a shot at a doe that was between the two stands. The problem was what happened after the shot. According to the comment, the bullet ricocheted and came screaming back toward the box stand where the kid and his grandpa were sitting. This was not one of those stories where a shot sounded too close and everybody just got uneasy afterward. He said the bullet actually hit the stand.
The first impact was only a few inches away from him.
Then it got worse.
He wrote that after hitting the stand, the bullet struck the tree the box stand was attached to. After that, it finally came to a stop under his seat. So the full path, as he told it, was bullet fired by another hunter at a doe, ricochet, impact on the box stand only inches from a 10-year-old kid, then impact on the tree, and finally the round coming to rest directly under where he was sitting.
That was the whole story he shared in the thread. He and his grandpa were in a box stand on a gas line when another hunter, around 500 yards away, shot at a doe positioned between them. The bullet ricocheted, hit the stand a few inches from him, hit the tree, and ended up under his seat.
What do you think — if you found the bullet under your seat after it hit the stand inches from you, would you ever feel comfortable hunting that same line again?
Original Reddit post: What was your closest to death experience while hunting?
