Bobby, glad ya'll had good shoots, too. I'll bet that 32" Elsie is a sweetie. You know how much I love those long barrels. Congratulations on your 62 years!!
Your getting shot was unfortunate, but those early birds are bad about flying low, aren't they? Reminds me of the time I was hit at forty yards with a 1 1/4 oz. load, dead on. Our host and his son, who shot me, always used pigeon loads. I knew it was stupid even at that young age. I was about 13 years old, and we were shooting a waterhole under some huge old pines. We each backed up to one and all the birds were incomers. A low bird flew between two of us and the other guy swung on him and touched it off directly towards me. One hit me in the cheek and had to be dug out at the doctor, one pierced my earlobe completely, several penetrated the skin on my left hand where I instinctively covered my eyes an instant before he shot and many more "patterned on me" down to about my thigh. A nausea came over me and I nearly retched, but held it back in the face of the older men there, most importantly Grandaddy. Then, after feeling a bit better, got back up and resumed shooting. Certainly glad you were not hurt any worse than you were. That is a dead-on reason for always wearing shooting glasses on a bird field, eh?
Stan
