Dumbest thing I've ever seen while hunting
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He never implied that the guy was a bad person. Maybe the reason why he didn't like seeing it happening is because if he walks up to that stand in the dark, he doesn't want to get hit with anything and isn't going to add an unknown risk. Marijuana affects all people differently which makes people even more unpredictable than they already are. Not a risk I would take either.
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I hope this this is tongue in cheek, no one who is drinking, smoking dope or otherwise impaired has any business handling a firearm in the field or anywhere else.
the dumbest thing I have seen happened to me on Friday evening at 445 pm. northern Ontario rifle deer hunt. watching a doe feeding in the field 120 yds she snapped her head up to look directly across from 6x6 wooden blind and bolts out of the field. a minute or 2 passes then it happens 75 yds away a camo clad hunter is standing on the field edge staring at my blind after he assumes the blind is empty he starts creeping along the edge of the field toward the food plot . a harsh yell and this moron takes flight into bush on a dead run. it takes a pretty daring person to roam private property but only a complete idiot roams the bush in rifle season wearing full body camo!!
I've hunted in Saskatchewan for 48 years and have never hunted with anyone who was drinking or toking, perhaps if your seeing this so often you need to phone TIPS on these goofs.
Maybe you need to find new hunting buddies.
My father had one of the hunters he was guiding for bear accidently discharge a .350 Mag. inside his vehicle, shooting a hole through the floor. Dad heard the guy screaming, so as soon as he got the vehicle stopped he jumped out and rushed over to his side of the vehicle, thinking the guy shot himself through the foot. It turns out, the shooter had the rifle between his legs, and the recoil popped him in the nuggets.
He never told me how it ended, but I am guessing, the hunt was short lived, lol.
He never told me how it ended, but I am guessing, the hunt was short lived, lol.
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My father and I once watched a fellow chase a covey of nine grouse into the woods about fifty yards, using a semi-auto .22 LR and shooting from the hip.
He drove a Volkswagen van, and wore an Elmer Fudd hat, flaps and everything. Dad looked at me, lifted an eyebrow, and said "Great White hunter".
He drove a Volkswagen van, and wore an Elmer Fudd hat, flaps and everything. Dad looked at me, lifted an eyebrow, and said "Great White hunter".
I have a buddy who is a police officer, they had a call, they found the guys. One man driving a beat up pickup truck, four guys standing in the box of the truck with rifles shooting into the tree lines. Driving along a provincial highway. They were new to Canada, as I was told.
My friend Doug and I were hunting a County bush in December muzzle loader hunt about 10 yrs ago. We got there the first day a bit too early and had to wait about 2 hrs for legal shooting time. at about -15 degrees.
We were about 200 yrds apart tucked into our blinds. about 50 yrds form a road where we had seen recent deer movement.
When it was still dark we heard a car come up the road stop , a door close and a car drive away up the hill.
About 5 mins later I heard a shot ? I thought holy crap Doug its a bit soon for that as the shoot came from his direction.
I thought I'd wait a while before I go to him.
About 20 mins later I heard a car come up the road, a door close and a car drive away up the road.
A couple hours after sun up I was bloody cold and thought I'd go get him and go to breakfast. When I got to him I asked him if he shot ?
He said no , but about 10 sec. after the shot he could smell the powder drift over to him on a stiff breeze that had came up.
We went to breakfast and did some chores at his place and went back out that evening.
Once in our stands again we heard a car come up the road stop , a door close and the car leave.
We didn't see anything that evening and met back at the road at my Jeep just before dark. We were standing there when a older Gent came out of the bush near us.
He gave us crap for not having muzzle loaders but we told him they were Remington 700 in-line guns and even showed him the ram rods but I don't think he believed us. He had a Hawkin style gun.
I asked him if he was there in the morning and he said yes. I asked if he fired a shot. He said well sort of.
He told us he was pulling up his gun into a tree stand when it went off !
I said you had a primer on it !
He said he loaded it at home because he had trouble seeing in the dark. He even put the primer on it at home !
I said its legal (in Ontario) to load it at home and transport it with no primer on it but that's all.
I said he should put the primer on it once in the stand.
Again he said its too dark to "fiddle" with the primers.
I asked how did it go of ?
He said the hammer must have pulled back part way on a branch and then struck the primer.
I said "how did it get pulled back if it was being pulled up butt first ?
He said that he was pulling it up muzzle first !!! as he didn't want to get snow in the barrel as that was not safe !!
I said holly F____ your lucky your not dead !
He said ya "the ball came up through the floor of the tree stand just in front of his feet !!
We were in disbelief and went home.
Well seeing is believing my buddy found the tree stand later that season and sure enough it has a hole in it !
Dumbest , luckiest , idiot I've ever met
We were about 200 yrds apart tucked into our blinds. about 50 yrds form a road where we had seen recent deer movement.
When it was still dark we heard a car come up the road stop , a door close and a car drive away up the hill.
About 5 mins later I heard a shot ? I thought holy crap Doug its a bit soon for that as the shoot came from his direction.
I thought I'd wait a while before I go to him.
About 20 mins later I heard a car come up the road, a door close and a car drive away up the road.
A couple hours after sun up I was bloody cold and thought I'd go get him and go to breakfast. When I got to him I asked him if he shot ?
He said no , but about 10 sec. after the shot he could smell the powder drift over to him on a stiff breeze that had came up.
We went to breakfast and did some chores at his place and went back out that evening.
Once in our stands again we heard a car come up the road stop , a door close and the car leave.
We didn't see anything that evening and met back at the road at my Jeep just before dark. We were standing there when a older Gent came out of the bush near us.
He gave us crap for not having muzzle loaders but we told him they were Remington 700 in-line guns and even showed him the ram rods but I don't think he believed us. He had a Hawkin style gun.
I asked him if he was there in the morning and he said yes. I asked if he fired a shot. He said well sort of.
He told us he was pulling up his gun into a tree stand when it went off !
I said you had a primer on it !
He said he loaded it at home because he had trouble seeing in the dark. He even put the primer on it at home !
I said its legal (in Ontario) to load it at home and transport it with no primer on it but that's all.
I said he should put the primer on it once in the stand.
Again he said its too dark to "fiddle" with the primers.
I asked how did it go of ?
He said the hammer must have pulled back part way on a branch and then struck the primer.
I said "how did it get pulled back if it was being pulled up butt first ?
He said that he was pulling it up muzzle first !!! as he didn't want to get snow in the barrel as that was not safe !!
I said holly F____ your lucky your not dead !
He said ya "the ball came up through the floor of the tree stand just in front of his feet !!
We were in disbelief and went home.
Well seeing is believing my buddy found the tree stand later that season and sure enough it has a hole in it !
Dumbest , luckiest , idiot I've ever met
A few years ago west of Manning we were hunting moose west of manning there was another group of huntings there running quads at very or very early hour so we tried to avoid them. One evening just after legal shooting hours I was on my quad at a well defined intersection of pipe lines. and cut lines. One of these other guys cruises up with his lights off, sees me and jumps ff his quad with the rifle resting over the seat. He must have practiced that maneuver many times. As soon as this started I shouted I,m not a moose and turned my headlights on. He said don't worry my scope is bright after dark and I would have seen it was not a moose. I explained that I get nervous when a rifle is pointing at me from close range and might be tempted to defend myself. By the way I never heard a round chambers so maybe he loads when he identifies the target or more likely it was carried hot.
I stayed further from those guys to the point of changing our trips timing We used to call them the coyotes from Lac La Biche because you often saw them heading out after dark with pick spotlights. They may have been going in set up a spike camp so they could be there in the morning (I doubt it)
neil
I stayed further from those guys to the point of changing our trips timing We used to call them the coyotes from Lac La Biche because you often saw them heading out after dark with pick spotlights. They may have been going in set up a spike camp so they could be there in the morning (I doubt it)
neil
TheCoachZed
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Just saw this. You misunderstood me. I take 10m shots with buckshot ... 200m away from people's houses. Actually, 300m away - we can't use rifles or slugs within 400m of a house.
TheCoachZed
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Yup no worries.
I have a buddy who lets me use his stand after he's done with it. It's inside a city limits, but in a pretty decent woods section. I had me and two buddies all tag out there with buckshot this year. Mine dropped where I shot it (as per usual), as did my brother-in-law's. My cousin's ran 70 yards approx., with a busted shoulder ... he only managed to put one pellet in the lungs (not sure how he missed a 10 yard shot) and I smashed the other shoulder as it ran away. There was no blood trail, but when we found it, the deer had puked it's entire circulatory system out when it fell over, or at least that's what it looked like - and that was from only one pellet.
It's impressive stuff up close. I have never shot over about 25 yards with it, though, and really wouldn't trust it much further than that.
TheCoachZed
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
+1. I bought a crossbow this year to even further expand my hunting grounds. The amount of deer living in the cities of NB is unreal; very few rural areas can even come close these days.
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We used to have a lawyer from Toronto hunt with us...after pushing a small bush we were all standing on the road and a doe runs across about 50 yards in front of us...well this dumbassed lawyer starts shooting at the doe as she ran across the road into a horse farm and he took one last shot into the horse farm..the lawyer said not to worry he'd beat any charge in court... as the CO there was always on our asses we got the hell out of there real quick and once back at camp told the lawyer to pack up and head out and not come back! What a phucking jerk!
