Country Star Sundance Head Shot in Hunting Accident
Texas country star and the winner of “The Voice” Season 11 Sundance Head was shot Friday afternoon (11-15) in a hunting accident in east Texas. He is currently in the hospital with a gunshot wound that is not expected to be life threatening.
According to Sundance Head’s wife Misty, the singer was at a ranch hunting by himself when he was accidentally shot with a .22 round from a pistol. Mr. Head was outside of his vehicle reaching into the vehicle to grab the .22 when the gun slipped out of its holster, fell and hit the outside of his Jeep, and discharged into his abdomen.
Mr. Head then reached for his phone to call 911, but couldn’t find it. Instead his pocket was filled with blood. So he jumped into his vehicle and drove to the nearest main road to flag down help. After about 10 cars, someone stopped and called 911. Paramedics then called for a care flight helicopter who flew Mr. Head to a hospital in Tyler, TX.
According to doctors, the bullet went in just above Mr. Head’s belly button and lodged in his abdominal wall, luckily missing all vital organs. Doctors are not planning to remove the bullet at the moment. “Him being on the bigger side was a good thing. Bullet is in his fatty tissue,” wife Misty says.
Jason “Sundance” Head is the son of famous singer Roy Head, known for the 1965 hit “Treat Her Right” before becoming a country singer in the ’70s and ’80s. Sundance Head competed on the 2007 season of American Idol, becoming a semi-finalist. He then competed on The Voice in 2016, winning the competition.
Since winning The Voice, Sundance Head has become part of the Texas music scene, landing seven #1 songs on the Texas radio chart, including 2023’s “Bars and Churches.”
November 15, 2024 @ 11:17 pm
Dumbest headline ever!!! Not a hunting accident. It was a case of a dumb gun owner not handling a gun property. JFC
November 15, 2024 @ 11:30 pm
Sundance Head was shot while he was hunting. It appears he was also not practicing proper gun safety. That doesn’t mean he was not shot while he was hunting. Weird thing to get incensed over.
November 16, 2024 @ 8:43 am
Sorry, but have to agree with Shad Stanley on this one.
The headline is misleading and only serves to make hunters/hunting look bad. This is not a hunting accident at all. This is an idiot accident. His weapon was clearly not secured and he was not treating it with the respect it deserves.
I’d wager it was a drinking accident. Accidental Discharges like this are so exceedingly rare that it is clear user error when it happens and for you to disparage hunters by calling this a hunting accident is ridiculously disingenuous, Trigger.
Clickbait headlines are your groove these days, eh?
This is not a “HUNTING ACCIDENT” which literally tells people that he was shot by another hunter which is the definition of hunting accident. He wasn’t even in the woods so you make even more of a stretch with this headline than you need to.
You should hang your head in shame and apologize to hunters for this one.
November 16, 2024 @ 9:03 am
If you or anyone else who wants to insult my integrity as a journalist, please understand that reading Saving Country Music is optional. Sundance Head was shot while hunting. It’s a hunting accident. The article gives the full context of the incident. Though I understand how perhaps someone could use the title of the article to criticize hunting, I’m not seeing anyone doing that. All I am seeing hunters kvetching over semantics, and we’re all more dumb for even engaging in this conversation.
So no, I’m not going to “hang my head in shame.”
November 18, 2024 @ 4:13 pm
Integrity? You tossed integrity out the window with this headline.
He was shot on his way to hunt, not WHILE hunting. You clearly stated he reached into his vehicle to retrieve something and was shot by his inappropriately secured sidearm. If he were shot “while hunting” he would literally be in the woods stalking, tracking or in a stand. He was not.
Your integrity fades each and every time you post clickbait, liberal, anti-gun nonsense such as this.
You should be questioning your own integrity on this one. The rest of us can see it fading, riding off into the sunset of clickbait and ridiculous claims of “while hunting.”
I have been a hunter my entire life. Accidents like the one described in your clickbait article are user error. The fault of the person not respecting basic gun safety rules.
He was not in the woods. He was at his vehicle. If he was hunting from his vehicle, he is clearly breaking laws surrounding not shooting from a roadway or near dwellings.
Are you claiming that he was shooting from a roadway?
Your title is shit and the article is blatantly anti-gun at its heart.
Don’t like my critique of this mess you called an honest write-up? Then use an appropriate headline which describes what happened and not what you want to have happened.
That is disingenuous. You know it. Anyone reading this knows it.
If you are shooting from a vehicle then you are clearly not practicing safety.
November 18, 2024 @ 4:26 pm
Are we still harping about this?
“Your integrity fades each and every time you post clickbait, liberal, anti-gun nonsense such as this.”
So if the headline had said he was shot in a gun accident, would that have made it less “anti-gun” than saying it was a hunting accident?
My pen name is literally “The Triggerman.”
November 16, 2024 @ 9:08 am
If he was hunting and tripped on a vine, would it be okay to call that a hunting accident? If he fell out of a tree-stand, could he say it was a hunting accident? If he was headed to his stand and wrecked his ATV, would that qualify as a hunting accident? Or is hunting accident confined to very specific situations? I need it defined so I don’t use the term incorrectly and accidentally upset any of the folks who apparently are quite sensitive about it.
November 16, 2024 @ 10:16 am
Sounds like you were….triggered by this headline.
November 16, 2024 @ 2:54 pm
@J-t-B–
I totally agree with you.
Instead of “Country Star Sundance Head Shot in Hunting Accident,” Trig should have written “Country Star Sundance Head Shot in Disrespectful, Idiot Gun-Owner Accident,”
Trigger should hang his head in shamed of himself for his clickbait anti-gun headline.
Thank you for pointing that out. I hold my head high for being on your side.
November 17, 2024 @ 6:20 pm
When I read “Head” and “shot” it reminded me of that Office episode where Michael hit Merideth with his car and tell the office that doctors did everything that they could do and she is going to be fine. “Why did you word it that way Michael?!”
November 16, 2024 @ 12:40 am
Wishing him a quick recovery. I’ve played with a musician who had the same thing happen to him with a handgun. Idk if it was one of those single-action .22 revolvers but it is a good reminder with revolvers to never keep a round in the chamber that the hammer rests on because a good bump to the hammer will fire off the round. It doesn’t take much.
November 16, 2024 @ 4:22 am
“Treat Her Right” is such a banger. I had never heard it before until I saw “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
November 16, 2024 @ 9:02 am
This was not a “hunting accident” it was a careless firearm owner accident that happened while either coming or going hunting, could have just as easily been a “grocery store shopping accident” by the writers definition.
November 16, 2024 @ 9:54 am
Likely he wouldn’t have been carrying a
22 gping to the crocery store.
November 16, 2024 @ 4:16 pm
You clearly don’t know much about folks who carry for self defense if you think that.
November 16, 2024 @ 8:13 pm
Texas has one of the most permissive open carry laws in the country. It is still illegal to open carry in most grocery stores because they sell alcohol. The famous incident where Billy Joe Shaver shot a man at Papa Joe’s bar? He got off for the attempted murder. The carrying a weapon in a place that serves alcohol charge stuck.
November 17, 2024 @ 4:20 pm
It’s perfectly legal to carry a gun in a grocercy store in Texas–and in most states. .A grocery store is not a bar.
In Texas, you can’t carry a gun in a tavern–or a restaurant that makes more than 51% of its revenue from sales of alcoholic drinks. No, you’re not required to exmine the restaurant’s books. If they’re an over-51% establishment, they have to post a sign and inform patrons that it’s a no-gun zone.
November 17, 2024 @ 6:06 pm
Yeah I have never seen a law permitting anyone from carrying a gun (concealed or open) in stores that sell alcohol. It’s clear that you cannot carry in a bar. It’s common to see people carry in Walmart, and they sell alcohol.
November 17, 2024 @ 8:41 pm
” It’s common to see people carry in Walmart, and they sell alcohol.”
This is total bullshit. And the fact that some are so belaboring this point really speaks to the unhinged nature of people who feel they need to defend hunting, and now, firearms carry to the nth degree, despite nobody using this particular story to criticize either. There’s some weird proclivity to talk down to people, and act like everyone else is an idiot when it comes to this matter.
It is not common to see people carry firearms in Wal-Mart. Ever since the mass shooting in El Paso in 2019 every single Wal-Mart prohibits open carry their premises, and have installed metal entry gates in all stores so security can close them in the case of someone carries in a firearm.
From Wal-Mart’s policies:
https://corporate.walmart.com/policies#:~:text=Open%20Carry%20of%20Firearms%20Motivated%20by%20our,local%20laws%20regarding%20concealed%20carry%20permit%20holders.
You also cannot open carry in HEB:
https://x.com/HEB/status/1169701227812311040
Or Randalls, Safeway, Albertson’s, Kroger, or any other chain grocery store. Every single store is going to have that policy, which is enforceable by law.
I was born and raised in Texas, and live in Texas now. I have never seen anyone open carry in a grocery store. Ever. Not once.
November 17, 2024 @ 9:41 pm
I can 100% attest to seeing people open carry in Walmart in Kroger in Tennessee. Yes the corporate store policy is that they ask customers not to open carry but it is also left up to the store managers discretion on how to handle it. Walmart’s corporate policy does not override state law. If someone is asked to leave by a manager and refuses to, that becomes a tresspassing charge.
You are referencing the people who were doing the 2nd amendment audits right after that mass shooting by carrying their AR rifles thru the stores. While not illegal, I strongly disagree with that action.
Just because you haven’t seen it in your area doesnt mean people aren’t open carrying elsewhere dude.
November 17, 2024 @ 9:44 pm
You fail to understand the difference between a store’s policy and state law. Stores are allowed to ask people not to carry, but again it’s not the same as ignoring the law and carrying a gun into a bar or post office. I am plainly stating what the law is and I don’t know why you are getting your panties in a bunch that I am some “gun nut” because I am doing so.
November 16, 2024 @ 11:20 am
At first glance, I thought he got shot in the Head. 🙂
November 16, 2024 @ 11:43 am
Oh,crud !! Get well soon,Sundance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 16, 2024 @ 5:39 pm
Speaking as an actual ” hunter” , I suppose you could call it a hunting accident as it occurred while out apparently to hunt on a ranch. I am only speculating why he was grabbing for a 22 pistol, perhaps just to have as a sidearm, not uncommon in some places. For me, if I was hunting in Texas I might choose a sidearm for wild boars, but honestly a 22 would only annoy a boar, you need stopping power. A 357 or 44 would be a better choice. But I’m only speculating. When I read the headline I too thought another hunter perhaps got him. So I see why others take issue with the headline.
Yet I can’t come up with a better one. Maybe, Country Singer Sundance Head accidently shoots himself, expected to survive. I won’t pronounce judgement on him, i wasn’t there and sometimes things happen despite all the caution you take.
Glad he’s gonna make it.His dad was a hoot to see live.
November 16, 2024 @ 6:06 pm
“For me, if I was hunting in Texas I might choose a sidearm for wild boars, but honestly a 22 would only annoy a boar, you need stopping power.”
There are guys on YouTube who make videos specifically about killing feral hogs with a .22. Coincidentally watched one this morning where the hog dropped in its tracks. Granted, it was a rifle and not a pistol. But a well placed shot of .22 on a hog can certainly be fatal.
November 17, 2024 @ 7:11 am
Yes a well placed 22 rifle shot can indeed work on a hog. Of course I’m talking about pistols as this is what Sundance was going to carry as a sidearm. Pistols, having a shorter barrel than a rifle , generate less velocity than rifles. If he was carrying a revolver in lieu of a more modern semi- auto pistol, figure even less velocity. Think about an adrenaline fueled charging hog coming at you, would you really want a 22 pistol as a backup? Personally, that’s a hard no for me. If my shot isn’t dead on, that hogs not going down immediately.
Anyhow, all speculation on my part. Maybe Sundance was gonna target shoot later with the pistol, who knows?
November 17, 2024 @ 6:16 pm
Shooting hogs with a .22 is inhumane because the liklihood of killing the animal is low and it’s just gonna run off with a bullet in it. Growing up my family would butcher hogs and a .38 special to the noggin’ didn’t drop some hogs right away.
A .22 is still a very dangerous round to get shot by for humans because the bullet will ricochet inside the body. A hog has a very thick skull that would be hard to penetrate with a .22
November 16, 2024 @ 8:17 pm
I appreciate if people think that the characterization of the headline was misleading. To call it the quote, “Dumbest headline ever!!!” and to say I should “hang my head in shame” seems quite hyperbolic. I’ve been operating Saving Country Music for 17 years now. I think I’ve very much established that I’m not in it for “clickbait.” And if I am, the joke’s on me.
November 16, 2024 @ 6:40 pm
Never heard of Sundance Head, and I am a native NE Texan. Must not be too big of a Texas
Music star. I thought a dude named Sundance was head shot looking at that headline 😉 glad he’s gonna make it.
November 17, 2024 @ 3:44 pm
How about “Guy named Head forgets to use his head and shoot’s himself, but not in the head.
November 18, 2024 @ 5:18 am
…kaitlin butts released “roadrunner” and sundance head staged a classic “looney tunes” scenario. priceless.
i hope mr. sundance has a swift recovery to write the first country song starting with “oops…” since maren morris has been performing “oops, whoops, wait, aha… trying to get it right…” with the wild life of “sesame street”.