Arkansas Surveyor.....Duck and Cover

So shoot and ask questions later does happen.

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As Granny Moses would have said on The Beverly Hillbillies, "Goldurned Revenooer's".

Another day in paradise...
Once upon a time a warning shot was customary in Arkansas. Better to take the time to visit ALL the adjoiners before trespassing.
Arkansas' right of entry is only immunity from criminal trespass...AND IS NOT BULLET PROOF.
DDSM, Pulaski County, Arkansas
(Hello the cabin...)

After he gave the surveyor the thumbs-up, he should have said "my last shot was a bad one, I'll just delete it".

I don't think the aggravated assault will stick. 25 feet miss means he wasn't shooting AT him. That was a "Shot Across the Bow".

Willful negligent discharge of a firearm sounds about right.

Stephen Johnson, post: 438876, member: 53 wrote: I don't think the aggravated assault will stick. 25 feet miss means he wasn't shooting AT him. That was a "Shot Across the Bow".

Also says he was using a shotgun. Not so much "across the bow" when using the scatter gun.

Although it does say "... The round hit ..." which opens up all sorts of possibilities.

Well, to be honest, I'd have probably stopped right there. Wouldn't have drawn the pistol. I carry, but when it's hot, it's extra weight and chafes, so there is a good chance I wouldn't have had it on. What I would have had on was the machete. I wouldn't have pulled it either, but once I gathered my senses, had he approached, well it's damn hard to run with gear on.

Truth is, I'm horrible about knocking on folks doors instead of just running over there and doing what this guy did. The guy probably would have got the thumbs up first and never seen the gun.

Some folks wig out when a firearm comes out. If you're in the country surveying long enough, it happens enough you get used to it. The city boys may be a different story. I don't even think about it anymore. I assume everyone is carrying. The open carry folks worry me though. Something about "wearing it on the outside of his pants for all the world to feel" bothers me some.

Only time I've ever been shot at was by a meth chef with an AR- from an industrial park across a ditch. Guessing it was probably for the best I didn't knock. And doubt there'd be any kind of certified mail or document I could have nailed to his power pole that mighta changed his decision making matrix.

Back East - the shot gun is actually their deer rifle.
You would definitely know if a 1 oz. slug hit the dirt 25' away!

A friend did 5 of 7 years for firing his 12ga shotgun pointed skyward to run blackbirds out of this trees.
His neighbor charged my friend with trying to shoot him.
I do not remember all that the DA charged him with.
The only evidence was bird shot in the neighbors rain gutter.
This was outside any city limits on the NE side of Lake Fork and the neighbors house was nearly 100yards away from where he fired the shot.
I did a survey showing fence, buildings and general locations and distance circles from where he was standing.
[SARCASM]Be sure and have a place to hide the body before firing a shot.[/SARCASM]

Kris Morgan, post: 438914, member: 29 wrote: The city boys may be a different story.

There are parts of town that can get hairy. Watched a kid three lots down from where we were surveying walk out into his front yard with a shotgun and fire a round. Think we were in the wrong part of town, and the folks weren't to keen on watching the investors buy up their neighborhood. who knows ..

I had this same thing happen to be this past winter. The woman who shot at me called the cops. She said I had orange arrows (pole bipod sticking out of my lath bag). The sherif had a talk with her and that was it. Nothing happened.