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Me thinks that maybe the editor isn't very friendly towards hunters. Lots of ammo there for the antis. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Maybe PETA wrote the article. OTOH, it's hard to picture a gillie suit bursting into flames, and not laugh. Hope the guy's ok, but if not we may have a "Darwin Award" candidate. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> 7mm
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7m/m it ain't funny but it is somehow ain't it. Talk about Moses and the burning bush! Don't you just know it was a war dance there for a few minutes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
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No ... it is funny ... gotta feel sorry for him though. Had second degree burns once on my right hand and forarm ... very painful. I still DO NOT understand how someone can mistake a person for a deer!! Was he shooting at a buck or doe?
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We had two hunters killed on opening day of gun season for deer in Yazoo county, Mississippi. The radio said that one hunter was tracking a wounded deer and had taken his orange vest and hunting coat off. This happens nearly every year. http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1536776Bob
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We lose one or so around Idaho every year or two also because someone mistakes another hunter for a game animal. We also don't have an color requiremrnts for coothing in Idaho and it never seems to fail, someone wearing camo gets shot by someone who thinks they saw game moving through the woods. Pretty sad. We need a blaze orange law in Idaho.
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We lose one or so around Idaho every year or two also because someone mistakes another hunter for a game animal. We also don't have an color requiremrnts for coothing in Idaho and it never seems to fail, someone wearing camo gets shot by someone who thinks they saw game moving through the woods. Pretty sad. We need a blaze orange law in Idaho. Pretty sad statement of hunters when even hunters think the only way you can safely hunt is to look like a traffic cone. I seldom wear it on my own property and only the bear mininum if required else where. Even sadder that many hunters would blame me if I got shot. Anyway I believe it makes you a better hunter if you hunt like your the hunted.
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Okay, am I missing something here? Who the heck shoots at a deer from 300 feet away with a shotgun?- Sheister
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An idiot with a gun. Face it- they are everywhere. I'd bet he was using a Mossberg he bought at Walmart.
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It is very sad that somebody didn't take the time or make the effort to identify his target. If he can't tell that it was his friend, how could he tell if he was shooting at a buck or a doe. Or here in the west a Mule Deer of an Elk.
It just defies all reason that there are hunters so caught up in killing an animal that they shoot at sounds in the bushes rather than wait until they know for sure what they are shooting at. And this was at Shotgun range. Not 400 yards across a canyon!
If this slob couldn't identify his target, How did he know what part of the body he was aiming at. Was he just hoping to hit some part.
Or did he just mix drinking with hunting?
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And this was at Shotgun range. Not 400 yards across a canyon!
100 yards without using a slug is not my idea of shotgun range, although apparently there's at least one guy who thinks it is.
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LeosRedFox,
I have a theory about why people shoot at 'deer', 'sounds', each other, et.al. My theory is this: It just might be that 40", 27 pt. perfectly symmetrical whitetail. Oh! and it weighs 350 lbs. (field-dressed) Never mind the fact that no one has ever seen it. Except, of course, in their dreams.
BTW, half the hunters in southern Michigan believe their shotguns are as accurate as rifles. (None that I hunt with, Thank the Lord!) ...the9.3Guy
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