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On 4/22/13 10:43 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:26:02 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 4/22/2013 10:13 AM, wrote:

I have been shot at.

Ok, were you shooting back at the time or taking cover or both?

Shooting back. The over riding emotion was anger, not fear

Ok... how did your training work out for you. Without getting into
trouble, did you hit your target? Also wondering if you could elaborate
on your stance and cover at the time?

I am not sure if I hit the guy or not. He did stop shooting.
I didn't see anything in the paper.

That is what made me want to upgrade my equipment (a .22 SNS at the
time) and work on some better training.

The first time I was shot at was in the early 1960s. I had a small grant
to report on a group of college students who went south during spring
break to help rebuild a church that had been set on fire by the klan and
also to help register voters. One night after a day of taking photos and
doing interviews, we were heading back to where we were staying when the
car we were in came under attack. It was a white Oldsmobile driven by a
local official of the black Deacons for Defense and Justice.

The car doors were peppered with bullet holes, but no one was hurt. Our
driver returned fire and thought he had hit someone. The afternoon paper
the next day had an article about a local who had been hit by a "stray
bullet" while night hunting. Right where we were attacked.

I was the real hero in that shooting. I got behind the other side of the
car and stayed low.

A group of us were roughed up a bit the next day in town. We weren't
non-violent. I had the school's Nikon F with me, and it was on a wide
web strap. I swung it and smashed it against the side of the head of one
of the good old boys who was swinging at us with his fists. Put a small
dent in the camera.

Ahh, the good old days.