patrickt66, there are some folks out there wandering around with guns, that after watching them, I don't want 'em armed whether they're ridin' or walkin'!
The scariest thing in a deer camp is a 24-year old with his first rifle, on his first hunt. At a range, it's the same guy with his first handgun. You look at him and remember that all he knows comes from Hollywood...
But I knew a WW II vet, with another 25 years of handloading and hunting, who put a bullet through the hood of a car, just like the opening story of this thread...Or the LEO-turned-gunsmith, with excellent competitive skills with a pistol and many years of shooting--who shot the radio antenna off his front fender while aiming at Bambi.
So far, I've been lucky. I'll take luck over skill, any day.
Art