Posted on 12/20/2011 9:38:28 AM PST by TSgt
FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio -- An Ohio sheriff says a man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle accidentally shot and killed a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away.
Holmes County Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said Tuesday that the accident occurred Thursday night when a man fired his loaded rifle to clean it. He says the victim, Rachel Yoder of Fredericksburg, was nearly 1.5 miles away when she was shot in the head.
No charges have been filed.
Yoder was shot while traveling to her home in adjacent Wayne County, between Columbus and Akron. She was riding alone after attending a Christmas party for employees, most under 18 years old, who work at an Amish produce farm.
Usually muzzle loader season is very good to hunters. I’d try it out. Traditons has some nice ones that you might find useful. I have a .50 and I can shoot cloverleafs at 100 yards with ball and patch.
Wish I were close by. I’d love to join you.
Take care.
Cool...
I learned how to do that when talking to my first wife. LOL
Couldn’t resist...
Every time I see one of these stories, I think “you can’t clean a loaded gun”....he was either incompetent (where I wish he’d just shot himself), or he was playing around....either way, he wasn’t cleaning a gun.
Wow, I didn’t know that. I thought you’d have to use a scope.
The targets can be seen clearly by anyone with 20/20 vision. The difficult part is getting the bullet to the target accurately.
The apogee of the bullets flight ....200 feet, 4 and 1/3 inches. If I do that I am should be hitting center on a day with not too much wind.
As an aside, I’ve seen a lot of Amish people over the years, but have not ever seen a buggy being driven by one of their females....just sayin’.
Then you haven’t been around Shipshewana or Nappanee very much.
So you’re shooting two thirds of a football field high. Interesting.
The math on this shooting is amazing and is a big draw for me. I love it.
Not by shooting it in the air..uncap it or remove the frizzen powder...if need be, shoot it in the ground.
Yeah.
uncap it or remove the frizzen powder
And then you swab the barrel with the patch, ball and charge still in it?
Don’t forget that buffalo hunter William Dixon killed a Comanche warrior at 1,500 yards with an aimed shot during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls while using a black powder Sharps buffalo rifle.
Several hundred feet short of a mile with an aimed shot. If it wasn’t made from a high perch over a canyon , I would doubt the validity of the story also
You’re hitting the points I’d enjoy about it. Stop it! ;^)
look up Minie Ball.
And anything fired from around 45 degrees angle,, returns to earth at etreme range, very close to muzzle velocity.
Care to back that up with a source? Very close to muzzle velocity? that’s BS
>> sorry, not buying it.
There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm<<<
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!
The live in the freekin desert. Once you get out of their ugly towns, it’s miles and miles of sand and rocks.
Around here we go pickerel shooting and that bullet ricochet is something you always have to be concerned about.
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