Cow slaughter backfires for man Wed Oct 26,12:50 PM ET SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man who twice missed while trying to shoot a friend's cow only to accidentally shoot a passer-by in the leg was fined Wednesday for what an Australian court described as a freak accident. Rudolf Stadler, 61, agreed in April last year to shoot the troublesome cow which belonged to a friend who owns a hobby farm at Caboolture in tropical Queensland state. Stadler lured the cow to a shed, and then took aim with his rifle. He missed. He took aim a second time, fired and missed again. The second shot went through the back of the shed, a fence across a paddock and then through the door of a car being driven along a road behind the farm. The bullet hit 46-year-old Carrie Tunning in the leg, the Brisbane District Court heard. Tunning, a passenger in the car, made a full recovery but Stadler was so distressed by the incident that he handed in his firearms license. The court fined Stadler A$1,000 and banned him from obtaining another gun license for five years. The cow was not so lucky, with Stadler eventually finding his mark.
How do you miss a cow with a rifle at the ranges inside a shed TWICE?!?!? Icould see the freak chance of once with a stumble or the cow lurching or maybe that its a small cal and rickochets off the skull or just dosnt penetrate or get a clean kill, but to miss the cow and especialy TWICE at that kind of range is just sad!
I suppose it would be possible but I mean a grown cows head is almost the size of a mans torso, I would figure even shooting from the hip a reasonably unskilled person should hit somewhere in the head at that range even if its not through the brain.