I knew this guy in Montana who was driving one night, and saw a trophy buck by the side of the road. He stopped and got out his camera. As he prepared to take the picture, he hears a voice say “Don’t bother, it’s a fake.” He turns around to see a game warden stepping out of the brush by the side of the road.
He gets to talking to the GW and hears this story. They had the fake deer set up. A guy stops and gets out his rifle. He aims and shoots. The deer being Styrofoam does not fall over. They yell at the guy to cease fire and drop his weapon. Instead the guy runs about 10 feet closer to the deer, and takes a second shot. The GW yells again, and the guy runs another 10 feet and takes a third shot, yelling that it is his deer and he saw it first. Oh and BTW they video all of these cases. Can you the judges reaction when he saw that video? 
http://www.akmining.com/mine/minclass.htm
http://www.kentucky.com/306/story/238060.html
Home (North Carolina hunting accidents and fatalities from 1960-1995).
Stock Alert: Yoda To Take Over The Empire In $313 Billion Takeover (“In spite of last year’s 24 recorded hunting injuries and four deaths”)
http://www.caller.com/ccct/national_world_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_812_4465586,00.html
I had to mention this one! A few years back, a dairy farmer in upsate NY was painting “COW” on the sides of his cows, in fluorescent orange. Seems he had lost a few to hunters-how on earth can you mistake a cow for a deer?
My father told me the same story about a farmer in Kansas 50 years ago. So unless you have a cite, I think this just might be a urban legend. Or maybe a rural legend as the case may be.
That was also part of an old Disney cartoon. I think it was Donald Duck who bagged that “deer”.
It is important to note that not all hunting accident deaths are the results of being shot by morons. A former neighbor of mine died recently after falling out of his tree stand while hunting alone on his property. His wife got worried when he hadn’t come back by dark. She found him in a crumpled heap beneath his stand.
Anyways. Just trying to say that such incidents are counted as hunting accidents as well, so any statistics that get pulled might not contain just people who have been accidentally shot.
Less obviously, it is also perhaps a hunter who is not properly decked out in bright orange hat or vest, or a non-hunter (day hiker, camper, etc) who wanders into an area with a hunter in it.
In either case, it is the obligation of the person with the firearm to ensure that they have properly identified their target before pulling the trigger. I was always taught, by older family members/parents, as well as the NRA, that if there is any doubt about the situation, you do NOT pull the trigger. EVER.
The first few years they owned the place, they were still working and so only came over when their jobs allowed. They found the barbed-wire fence cut to allow 4-wheeler access for poachers.
-Lil
Of course. I cannot imagine anyone thinking otherwise, but they do.
Maybe the hunters thought they bagged a hybrid cow-deer? Hey, it could happen!
::d&r::
A local man disappeared while out hunting. He hasn’t been found even after a pretty intense search.
He is nearly seven feet tall and dressed in a fluorescent orange jumpsuit, how could he not be found?
When I was a kid and went hunting with my father we came accross a “hunter” dressed in a brown jacket and a white watchcap. This is white-tail country. :smack:
I took a hunter safety course many moons ago as a young lad in New Mexico. One part of the training was watching a short film, and deciding “safe to shoot” or “don’t shoot” for each situation depicted. I remember one that the whole class had said was “safe”, which showed a deer running lightly from right to left in an open clearing. On replay, as the deer ran past you could see a flicker of orange in the trees behind it at one point, which indicated another hunter behind the deer. The whole class had got it wrong. Lesson: be very sure not only of your target, but what is beyond it.
I’m sure that similar circumstances to those in the movie have led to quite a number of accidental shootings.
So, in what room is the head displayed?
That is correct for game like deer and elk. Turkey hunters, on the other hand, sit very still and use camo to blend in. I’ve walked within 20 ft of a turkey hunter, and only knew he was there after he said something.
Every year during deer season there is at least one story of a hunter having a heart attack out in the woods. Presumably these are men unaccustomed to the exertion inherent in marching through the woods, or worse, dragging out the deer carcas. Or perhaps they would have had one at home sitting in their recliner, instead. I just know it’s an annual report in western PA along with typically one accidental shooting.
Unfortunately, one can be without doubt but wrong…
Do turkey hunters and deer hunters hunt at the same time?
I grew up in Maine, and every now and then, you’d hear stories about some rural dude who died because his borther/dad/cousin/friend was “cleaning his gun”. I always wondered about those.
Anyway. . .
You all know the one about the hunter who shoots his hunting buddy by accident?
So, he calls 911 from the woods, and says to the operator, “I shot my friend, I think he may be dead.”
“Ok, can you make sure?”
He says, “ok, just a minute.”
BANG!
He gets back on the phone, “now what?”