“So, someone just took a shot at something that moved??”
Sadly, that happens several times each and every deer hunting season. If you CANNOT guarantee it is a deer, then you do not pull the trigger.
Everybody who we allowed into our deer hunting party had to have a pair of binoculars to use prior to touching their firearm.
I see way too many hunters in the woods without binoculars which means many of them probably pointed their weapon and used the scope. Not good.
Unfortunately all too many just aim and shoot at motion; it’s a practice that’s been going on for years. I say lock the guy up and send a message.
I live in Maine and I heard this story on the local news yesterday evening.
I assumed the woman was hunting, too...apparently this was not the case.
The reporter on the news said is was the first hunting fatality in Maine since 2012.
My late father lived in Michigan when he was in his teens and twenties. He used to go deer hunting with my grandfather.
My dad told me that one year....many decades ago....that 17 guys were killed the first day of the hunting season. No one wore blaze orange back then, but that is a lot of fatalities, and in a single day!
““So, someone just took a shot at something that moved??”
1. Make damn sure you know what you are shooting at.
2. Be damn sure you can make the shot.
3. Assume you may miss, you must know everything behind the target is clear.
4. If you make a non kill shot it is your obligation to hunt it down all day if necessary and kill it mercifully.
5. Know your weapon and its capabilities.
6. Obey the law, the game wardens are the good guys!
If you can not do the above do not go hunting.
Yep. Howie Carr has been on the story for decades.