I came across this video which appears to be from 2013- I have NO RECOLLECTION of having taken it, but this is the kind of thing I would shoot all the time when I was driving around the country. Too bad I didn't have this site back then, huh?
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The Armed Citizen, The NRA ‘American Rifleman’ Magazine, Nov 2025.
An armed mother in Mississippi used her firearm to shoot an allegedly diseased monkey that had escaped from an overturned truck, according to police.
The mother of five armed herself after her 16-year-old son reported that he thought he had seen a monkey running around outside of the family's Heidelberg, Miss., home. After getting out of bed and arming herself, she stepped outside and saw the monkey approximately 60 feet away. She and other residents had been warned that the monkey was allegedly carrying diseases, so she fired.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” the woman told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
The encounter occurred after a widely reported October 14 incident on a Mississippi highway, when a truck carrying a number of Rhesus monkeys ...
Thanks for the awesome gift print 87/100! Reminded us of our In Their Shoes exhibit.
https://www.air.ngo/programs/in-their-shoes/
We look forward to seeing you again on 12/6!