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Offline bubba

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a disgrace
« on: April 25, 2011, 01:48:31 PM »
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Re: a disgrace
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 02:35:29 PM »
Ya got that right Bubba,there is no explanation for mistaking a human for a deer or any other animal. All said and done to bad the guy would'nt have made it long enough to return the shot.

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Re: a disgrace
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 05:35:50 PM »
Some hunting "partner" !!   >:(


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Re: a disgrace
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2011, 06:24:57 AM »
I'm always amazed at the number of ways people can find to shoot their hunting partners.

About 8 years ago a good friend went hunting on his own property on the last day of the season with a guy who hadn't seen a deer all year.  They decide that the land owner will do a small one person drive of some isolated cover.  The second guy says  "If it's brown-it's down!"  An hour later my buddy, who was wearing-you guessed it-brown camo-is dead from a side to side heart shot from a 12 ga. slug.  The shooter's statement?  "I saw brown and shot at it."

The two previous local fatalities involved an uncle shooting a nephew and, this year, a nephew shooting an uncle.

I'd bet that if I went back and looked at the hunting fatalities over the last ten years that a good 80+% of them were either self inflicted or they involve people from the same hunting party who got shot while doing what the shooter knew that they were doing.  I can only remember two fatalities in the last several years that didn't.  One involved a person shot by someone from another party.  One involved a shooter, illegally within 500 feet of a dwelling, who was shooting at a running deer.  A bullet passed through the wall of a home, struck a toddler in the chest and killed the child.

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Re: a disgrace
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 10:38:17 AM »
you got that right, there isnt any excuse.  Mike

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Re: a disgrace
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2011, 08:53:56 AM »
Wow...He could serve as little as one year?  That seems weak at best...What a shame.
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