Indian Lakes (AP). Larry Beaumont, President of the National .22 Shooting Association, was interviewed today regarding the 3-year old boy who shot his grandmother through both arms with a .22-caliber rifle near Orange, Texas yesterday. “The incident was the most remarkable display of gunmanship since the exploits of the brothers Aim and Fire Shellachumm over forty years ago,” Beaumont said.
“The entire event was just astounding. For a young man to have the sangfroid to fire a gun at his grandmother was in itself amazing enough, but for this 3-year old to have the skill to shoot her in both arms with a single shot was incredible. We have already offered him an honorary membership in our association and have scheduled him to begin snake-shooting training on Monday. After a few days shelling water moccasins in Slide Creek, he will be ready for blasting rear windows of moving vehicles,” Beaumont commented.
“He reminds me of my cousins Aim and Fire who through a series of unfortunate events are no longer members of the N-.22SA,” Beaumont said.
Fire was killed when an automobile ran over him near Kountze, Texas 45-years ago. Aim remains on death row after killing the driver with a shot to the eye with a .22 caliber rifle from a distance of 5281 feet. Aim’s case is on appeal. He claims he was shooting at the man’s ear “just to scare him” but failed to take into account the humidity and air temperature when he fired his gun, thus causing the bullet to drift 2-inches to the left penetrating the man’s eye. The man, Chug Houndlicker, a notorious ditch-dog killer, had been suspected of running over Fire.
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The seat of Hardin County, Kountze describes itself as: "The Big Light in The Big Thicket." The thicket, a vast area of tangled, often impenetrable woods, streams and marshes, is a 50- mile circle of moccasin-infested swampland about 30 miles north of Beaumont. Claustrophobically dark and dank, dripping with vines and Spanish moss, Kountze boasts of hunters who bring their best dogs here trailing razorback hogs, wildcats, and wolves. And if they veer off the trails, the sheriff keeps a pack of bloodhounds to rescue lost souls.
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