Not a good start to the deer season in Western NY

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Over many years hunting I've seen some pretty scary stuff. A few examples:

Fellow shot his horse: he'd tied the horse to a tree to do some still hunting for elk. Shot the horse when he mistook it for an elk on the way back to the horse.

Another sportsman took a shot at me as I rode a horse along the side of a draw. He mistook the horse and I for a deer.

Guy ground sloosing a pheasant as it ran down a corn row clipped a guy blocking at the end of the field. Forgot his buddy was right in front of him.

Over the years, I've gotten very picky about who I'll hunt with.
 
Nothing like getting up to go hunt in your own woods, only to find someone else in your tree stand, 200 yards or more from the nearest property line! Another time my brother went out to hunt deer, and the woods was full of Orange! Nobody had permission! I would find college kids camping in my woods all the time. Oh, they had permission from Doctor So-in-So. "But you crossed 2 or 3 fences to get to this spot! By the way, one of you came screaming down the hill right at my tent, you were about 10 feet from getting shot! Luckily you turned and ran back up the hill!" My two sons with me never questioned the basic stupidity of city people after that!

Ivan
 
I live in the country. Last year some idiot shot a buck 35 ft. from my mothers house (shes 93) out of a pick-up truck window.
I had said something about it in the coffee shop and hour later there was a conservation officer at my house.
Yes, I ratted the guy out. $2000. fine.
The guy was the local Hunter Safety course teacher :mad:
 
You know, reading all of these stories just gives me the chills.

It's all "just buck fever" until someone you know gets shot and killed.

The Ikes out in Iowa put together a public education video a number of years ago (c. 1992-1993) that featured interviews with hunters who had killed their own fathers, sons, brothers, friends, etc. as a result of shooting without positively identifying the target. I believe now as I did then that watching that video ought to be required when you apply for a hunting license or a renewal. Moreover, I believe that anyone found responsible for discharging his/her firearm without positively visually identifying the target ought to have his/her hunting rights revoked for life.
 
2152hq said:
A fatality (thought a woman walking a dog was a deer) and a near miss (thought a pickup truck was a deer).

..and they wonder why I don't hunt anymore.
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Exactly.

It doesn't matter how remorseful they are after they've killed someone or a domestic animal. Incompetent, unskilled, and just plain careless "hunters" give all real hunters a bad name.
 
Used to run with guys from south PA-where PA meets MD. and WV. That is supposed to be where folks started painting "COW" on their live stock because of city boys with buck fever. Scary deal.
 
Went for a walk in Rural NC....

Went for a walk down a nice road next to a fence line with forest on the other side on a beautiful Fall day which was the first day of deer season. There must be a lot of deer there because you hear shots coming from all around every few minutes. You can actually hear the bullets cracking twigs in the treetops. We got out of there.

It would be too much to ask people that just want to shoot their guns to go to a range. That way you don't get to fire them through the trees for 'distance'.

PS. The story about the lady walking her dogs really burned my up on very many levels.
 
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A very good friend...one of the 4 of us left alive that kept one of the oldest skeet clubs in the country going was killed 2 years ago by a kid on a game farm hunt. Never even got into the field. He was just there to work his young bird dog. May sound nasty...but I hope that kid NEVER forgets.
 
I too have heard both rifle bullets and rifled slugs pass close enough to hear them whine once they were upset by contact with intervening brush.

I don't hunt anymore and I don't miss it. I think that hunters who injure or kill another person should, at a minimum, suffer a lifetime ban on hunting.
 
The last ranch I was on was in NM . It had quite a bit of BLM and State Lease land . That part of NM is loaded with antelope . When the hunters showed up I would ask them to keep an eye open for anyone doing something stupid , " shooting one of our cows , stock tanks , windmills etc " . I had every hunter watching every hunter . It worked great . Never had a problem .
 
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