Hunter Safety

“R.I. man kills son in hunting accident

Minneapolis woman injured in hunting accident near Somerset

Hunting Accident

Beware of Careless Hunters

I try really hard to understand how anyone can point a gun at anything because 'it moves'. I was sitting, and grabbing some coffee one morning after hunting Natchez Trace, and I swear the conversation went like this:

"Get anything?"

"A few brush shots, but nothing I could see in the darkness."

Enough said.”

“It got so bad in South Carolina that there is no such thing as a hunting accident anymore there. The shooter gets tried for murder.”

“It should be involuntary manslaughter, just like in a car accident.”

“I'm only 16 and I've hunted for 4 years and I would never think of pointin my gun at anything unless I knew what it was. Course I don't much, I'm only 16.”

“Tea's got a peer here!”

“We didn't have a single fatality here in Ohio and them hills are like outer Kahndahar.”

“The term "hunt safely" is an oxymoron all too often.

This year we "lucked out" with only a few poacher signs in the horse paddocks(stray shell cases and an overlooked razor-tipped broadhead arrow) on the farm. Last year our neighbor lost a sheep to a bullet. A SHEEP!!

=:0”

“We've done a few hikes in Michigan, and have been glad someone had orange on. I definitly need to invest in some orange fleece, or a hat at least.”

“I grew up in the country and was hit by shotgun pellets fired across a ravine, through the woods. I'd be more forgiving if they hadn't continued firing after I started yelling.

We had to chase more than one group out of our horse pasture. How do you climb through a fence with NO HUNTING signs every 20 feet or so and not know you're trespassing. My favorite was the guys firing into the patch of woods from our pasture. I guess the house on the other side of the woods didn't bother them.”

“An 65 year old man killed his son in a hunting accident, in Quebec last week. I think he said he was "confused". Some of the old folks shouldn't be driving, much less hunting.”

“That sure was a mighty short deer. Fluffy, too...


Hey V., folks around here just shoot back.”

“Just thinning the herd...”

“Who's Tea??”

“That's Ice Tea...a kid that's about to enter college. Can't spell too good though.”

“Wisconsin lost five hunters on opening day of modern gun. 4 of them were shot and one guy fell out of his stand. One of those shot was killed by his younger brother.”

“The guy who was fatally injured while bow hunting. He was alone. Tripped and fell on his own arrow.”

“I met a dood in my undergrad who walked with a cane and limp because he was shot while hunting. He said he felt like someone punched him hard in the hip, hard enough to knock him to the ground...and then he realized someone blew OFF one side of his hip.

The person who fired never came forth to admit it.”

“A few years back, I read about a guy who was bow fishing (for those who doesn't know...a string from a reel attached to the bow is tied to the arrow) and his string somehow got tangled on a part of his bow. When he shot the arrow, it got yanked back towards himself...got him in the eye. He didn't die.”

“What AmyG said.....oxymoron!”

“to put this into perspective, how many hunters were in the woods for deer season?”

“what'd he call me? d'oh!

:p”

“~@%^P.......back atcha! AmyGoo

How many hunters in the woods?
Who cares?

The ones who are drinkin' and huntin'..........I wanna party with those guys!”

“I asked how many because it seemed the inference was that it is an unsafe sport with mostly irresponsible participants.

If there are millions of hunters (there are) a few accidents, statistically, hunting could be safer than Nintendo.

There are bad apples in ANY group of people.”

“I live in Kansas. A guy driving home from work was shot through his truck window by deer hunters. They were on the other side of a hill and didn't think to check what they might be shooting towards. I don't care if it only happens a few times a season, it's stupid and could be avoided.”

“Le Subtil-
I'm just jivin'.
Hunting is probably safer than shaving.”

“I'd hate to see you shave! How could you possibly kill yourself shaving?”

“Here in Quebec, all hunters must take a course before they are allowed to hunt. We used to be one of the worst places for hunting accidents; now we're like Vermont and Wyoming - 0 to 3 a year. Stanlee, the man who shot his 39 year-old con is a local. They had a wake for him in my village pub. It was pretty sad. I hike in the Adirondacks through hunting season and have never felt nervous. Most 'accidental' shootings of sheep wtc. aren't accidents at all. They're criminal behaviour by the small percentage of #&%!$ foung in every group (IMHO).”

“Thanks for the clarification, Tom. I'm still tryin to get a handle on when you're serious and when you're funnin.

I just can't help getting pi$$ed that it's considered OK to bash some "groups" and not others.

Believe me, I know my share of idiot hunters.”

“Rosey in South Carolina "hunting accident" became a euphamism(sp?) for murder.”

“Killed while shaving.......
Sh!t, I dunno.....
Maybe if her husband came home early and caught me shavin' her legs.

Bashing-
Don't tell anyone, but I'm not really a communist.
I just feel like someone(me) has got to piss back for all the pissin' on liberals and Democrats and peaceniks free-thinkers that goes on here.....and elsewhere.”

“That's kinda funny, Tom, 'cause I've done the same thing more than a few times. If I feel a certain angle to an argument is being under-represented I'll pick it up even if it's not necessarily my stance.
Reference the old religeous threads - I'm not really a very devout person.
I shouldn't be giving away all me secrets.”

“If we all agreed this would not be nearly as interesting.”

“LS: I may not have made myself clear.

If I sounded that way, I didn't mean it that way. My thread was driven primarily because of a news report I heard this week, regarding a dad who shot his son.

What is so bizarre about this accident, is that the son was laying down, on the ground, barking like a squirrel -- AND using a dead squirrel to pantomine. Literally, this idiot was holding up a dead squirrel in the middle of the woods - meanwhile he is completely hidden - and making out like it was 'live.'

I don't make light of this, and do not imply that "it is an unsafe sport with mostly irresponsible participants". I am SHOCKED by the number of times I hear every year about hunters who do not have a clear target. I have not, and will not ever pull the trigger on my rifle, until I have a clear target, a clear shot, and a high percentage of dropping that intended target to the ground.

My beef (or is that venison?) was aimed at the small percentage of hunters who think that blind 'brush shots' are a suitable means of increasing your take-home quota of deer.”

“Oooooooh sh!t......that IS bizzare!”

“I know dozens of very safety conscious and responsible hunters and have hunted extensively for years without incident. The problems are the ignorant and foolhardy and the previous post is right, there are some in every crowd. That said, I don't hunt land or with anyone I'm not confident in and I NEVER trespass. There are fools with rifles that shoot a mile like there are fools with cars or anything else. I've got to have my venison, my kids prefer it to beef hamburger. If I don't thin the herd where I live they eat the shrubs around the house in the winter anyway.”

“"If we all agreed this would not be nearly as interesting."
GIJill
01:40:08 PM
12/13/01


I just don't think that's true at all. Can you back that up somehow?

;-)”

“I love reading all the BS about hunting and hunter safety by people who know absolutely NOTHING about the sport. People who merely want to bash it because they don;t understand or like it.”

“"I have not, and will not ever pull the trigger on my rifle, until I have a clear target, a clear shot, and a high percentage of dropping that intended target to the ground."

And that is why I have never taken a deer. The only time I felt confident in the shot was when Birch had already filled my doe permit and his. The rat.”

“Sassafras: heh.. I don't know how many minutes I have sat absolutely still waiting first to identify what was moving, and second to get the shot I knew was going to drop it on the ground. You can only guess the percentage of my (less than 100') close shots. I even got rid of my 'semi'automatic' (remington woodsmaster) a years ago, in favor of a ruger bolt action to ENSURE I would make EVERY shot count.

(by the way, thanks for the quote.)”

“There's nothing better than bringing home a plump grain fed Canada Goose or Mallard. Yummm! Venison rocks, especially deer sausage. Rabbit stew is great too.

Ditto to there being idiots in any sport or activity.”

“"My beef (or is that venison?) was aimed at the small percentage of hunters who think that blind 'brush shots' are a suitable means of increasing your take-home quota of deer."

Do me a favor Towndog, please be carefull where ya aim that beef. Better yet, keep your meat to yourself! LOL!”

“Nigal: lol.. you go boy.. stand out of the way of the beef.. please step clear of the beef.”

“Don'y forget the 80's favorite Dog...


"Where's the beef?"”

“oh, I knew that was coming.. :)

I set myself up wide open for that.”

“STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A Swedish hunter spent two days in bed after being knocked unconscious by a Canada goose that landed on his head moments after his son shot it dead.

The goose had been flying about 60 feet in the air when it was shot by Carl Johan Ilback, who was hunting with his father, Ulf, along a stream in eastern Sweden.

When the goose dropped from the sky, it hit Ulf Ilback in the head and knocked him out, he said.

"It wanted to extract its revenge, I assume," Ulf Ilback told local newspaper Extra Ostergotland on Wednesday. "If it had gotten a better hit, it could have broken my neck."

http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/5066340/detail.html”

“How'd that Canada goose get in Sweden?”

“Darn Canadians.
:)”

“Fake passport, probably.”

“I once shot a duck that was flying directly at me....I was in a blind so I guess it didn't see me. After it was hit, the momentum still carried it towards me (started to drop abit)...I had just enough time to move my gun barrel to parry it away from me. It had quite abit of force....it would've hurt if it hit me.”