Dallas Co. Gunshot Accident

[blake]

From the Iowa DNR

Dallas County Man Injured from Gunshot Wounds

A rural Redfield man was injured by self-inflicted gunshot wounds Saturday morning.

Larry Godwin, 68, shot a .22 caliber handgun at a raccoon he had caught in a live trap when the bullet ricocheted from the cage striking him in the upper right thigh, lower abdomen area. When he dropped the gun, it fired again striking him in approximately the same spot shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday at his rural Dallas County farm.

Godwin was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines by a private vehicle where he was being treated for what were believed to be non-life threatening injuries.

The incident is under investigation by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

 

[Skully]

Wonder if he was charged for killing a coon out of season. Something seems fishy here.

 

[THA4]

This was on a private residence in a barn where the animals are a nuisance, so it is legal to trap and kill them.

Unfortunate situation, sounds like he is doing fine and pretty lucky the results weren't worse.

 

[kampiowa]

Funny but not

I'm glad the wounds were not life threatening. Talk about a bad day. I bet he was thinking you have got to be kidding me when the second one went off. Laughing on the inside.

 

[James315]

Explain how the trigger got pulled the second time? I have 2 of these exact guns and to be honest, the trigger is no warm butter.