Oh, sorry I killed you, I thought you were a deer ...

[dogtag]

Stupid sod didn't bother identifying his target.
He needs to be charged with manslaughter.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-shot-death-mistaken-deer-hunter/story?id=74478108

[Vern Humphrey]

Amen -- and the fact that his victim was not wearing orange is no excuse.

[clintonhater]

Amen -- and the fact that his victim was not wearing orange is no excuse.

ABSOLUTELY no excuse, & it was idiotic for the article to keep harping on it, as if the victim was "asking" to be shot. All hunters in my part of the state wear camo, & if you see orange, it's a tip-off they're outsiders. "Dusk" sounds like to me it was after legal shooting hours.

[togor]

Public hunting land next door, which we stay out of in the 9- day rifle/shotgun season. Locals around here don orange when walking the roads.

[Roadkingtrax]

Is this like giving an offering back to nature?

[lyman]

Public hunting land next door, which we stay out of in the 9- day rifle/shotgun season. Locals around here don orange when walking the roads.

only 9 days?


ours runs from Oct (muzzle loader) thru the first week of Jan,

firearm season starts the week before thanksgiving,

our local state park has zones for hunting, and even tho I am maybe 25 yrs from the border, it is in a no hunting zone,

[togor]

Is this like giving an offering back to nature?

Was anyone burning sage? If so then maybe.

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only 9 days?


ours runs from Oct (muzzle loader) thru the first week of Jan,

firearm season starts the week before thanksgiving,

our local state park has zones for hunting, and even tho I am maybe 25 yrs from the border, it is in a no hunting zone,

9 days rifle/shotgun.

Muzzleloader ongoing, sometimes extra antlerless, early youth hunts.

[Vern Humphrey]

Here's a shot from my deer stand -- unfortunately bear season wasn't open at the time. I should have shot the SOB -- he tore up the feeder as I watched him
(and ignore the time-date stamp - camera wasn't set right.)

[dogtag]

If you went into the woods today
you were in for a big surprise

you have to sing it

[Major Tom]

In our small town of 20,000 people we actually have an in city hunting season, bow only. We do have a large city park with lots of wooded areas and that is where the deer usually are. Of course there are many private homes bordering the park. Arrows are flying all over the area and into private homes. Needless to say, the public stays out of the park during this "deer season". Around our town are almost endless country side hunting areas, but the idiot bow hunters choose to hunt in town and put everyone at risk.

[dogtag]

I wonder how many "clean kills" bowhunters make compared
with having to follow a wounded animal which they may or
may not find ?

[clintonhater]

I wonder how many "clean kills" bowhunters make compared
with having to follow a wounded animal which they may or
may not find ?

Most wouldn't have the brains to track one they wounded. If some demonstration of minimal skill & competence were required for a bowhunting license or permit, there wouldn't be a great many issued, which is why there'll never be such a requirement--the state F&G Dept. would loose revenue.

[lyman]

I wonder how many "clean kills" bowhunters make compared
with having to follow a wounded animal which they may or
may not find ?

no different than Gun hunters,


I know a few guys that Bow hunt, and all are very ethical,

loosing one is not an option and shot placement is something they pride themselves one,


one guy was telling the other day he lost one bow hunting out west years ago, they looked well into the night but the deer kept moving, so they called it a night, marked the spot, and went back at daylight,

found the deer, dead, maybe 100 yrds away and it had been mauled and partially eaten by a bear,

[togor]

no different than Gun hunters,


I know a few guys that Bow hunt, and all are very ethical,

loosing one is not an option and shot placement is something they pride themselves one,


one guy was telling the other day he lost one bow hunting out west years ago, they looked well into the night but the deer kept moving, so they called it a night, marked the spot, and went back at daylight,

found the deer, dead, maybe 100 yrds away and it had been mauled and partially eaten by a bear,

The point being,

It wasn't a clean kill.

Bow hunting offers an expanded season,

Shares multi-use public lands better,

But the same thing that makes it safer for people makes it tougher on deer.

[clintonhater]

no different than Gun hunters,

It IS different--more practice, a LOT more practice, is required to become even minimally proficient. What has now caused everybody & his brother to become "bowhunters"--when they wouldn't have thought of taking up the longbow--is the profusion of gadgets like optical sights that make it look "easy."

The skilled & ethical bowhunters ought to be leading the charge to require proof of ability, because it would clear out the clowns they have to compete with.