Shoot the Miner

Shoot the Miner is a basalt miner and a minor antagonist to Bun. He is known for harassing Bun with fake stories, pressuring him into questionable decisions, and dropping off rubble into Bun's backyard. It is implied that Shoot is in charge of the other miners, especially after the death of Shylo's former owner, the mine forman. 
== Harassment ==
Nearly all of Bun's encounters with Shoot involve some form of victimization of Bun. 
=== Basalt Blocks ===
Bun claims that the local mine has dropped off "hundreds" or "thousands" of tons of basalt into his backyard. 
=== Tall Tales ===
Shoot the Miner frequently pushes exaggerated stories onto Bun. He was the first encounter with Hard Leon that Bun heard about. Shoot the Miner claims that he was urinating in the woods when a "flat-faced fox" approached him and offered a pat on the head. He gave him a handful of Snickers Minis and the coyote returned to the woods. 
Other stories include being involved in an earthquake which split the ground beneath Bun's property, revealing a mole-people colony that he claims rummage through Bun's house while he sleeps. "He’s seen diamond lizards, heard ghosts and spirits, found mole people and alien evidence, and (this one I think is pretty damn far fetched and another bullshit lie of his) he claims that once he was using a drill and it went right through a dwarfs forehead on the other side of limestone and killed him instantly." -Bunyan Butler
=== Cherish ===
When tensions are tight with Bun, Shoot often threatens Cherish. After Shoot the Miner and other miners stole his breaker fluid, Bun locked himself inside his trailer. Attempting to draw him out, Shoot picked up Cherish and "air-humped" her. Bun retaliated by kicking his own door down and tackling Shoot into a pile of basalt. They were pulled apart by the other miners.