| cooch |
| (.300 member) |
| 02/05/09 10:37 AM |
Re: Brittany Boddington Leopard Incident
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I must disagree. The shooter knew there was a dog handler, but fired a .300 win mag not knowing where the bullet would land. As it turned out, unfortunately, the bullet landed in a man's pelvis.
.500 Grains.
Permit me to suggest that you are being rather uncharitable.
Applying your logic - simply knowing that there are people present - would require that no-one ever fire a shot while in company. The issue is not whether there was a dog handleer (or PH, or trackers, or bearers, or video-cameramen) in the vicinity,,, but whether the shooter might reasonably have expected someone to be in the specific place in which she was aiming.
Further, the information that I've seen so far, is that the injury to the handler was a "glancing" hit to the hip area. It is speculation as to whether the bone was involved or not, but to claim that the hit was more solid than that seems something of an exaggeration. In reality, whether the hit was fatal, non-fatal, or a complete miss is irrelevant to the question of whether the shot was justifiable.