Dumbest thing I've ever seen while hunting

trebor2880 said:
Someone shooting at a man in a fur hat, because he thought it was a deer!:rolleyes:
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Why a smart ass reply to a thread of situation,, that's dumb me thinks lol

To answer your Thread on a proper term,

After reading some of these shooting accidents, The dumbest thing I have seen and I just Hate it ! is the way Tikka's safety works and you have to take off the safety to unload the gun. You learn to point the muzzle in a safe direction before unloading...
 
We had downed our moose so were taking it easy, closing up camp and preparing for the drive home. Heading out, we stopped for breakfast at a small restaurant in Saint-Honoré de Témiscouaga (QC). The locals were all laughing about a couple of big city hunters that made a mistake...

It seems that two hunters were out for moose and ended up mistaking a domesticated cow for a moose. They shot and killed it. They did however take responsibility for it and spoke with the rancher, who charged them 2500$ for the cow.
 
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Adrian J Hare said:
Why a smart ass reply to a thread of situation,, that's dumb me thinks lol
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There have been alot of posts, on other threads about injuries or deaths, because of shooters who didn't properly identify their target.
I was just trying to make a point. If you can't distinquish between a man with a fur hat, and a deer, don't shoot.
 
xeon said:
Personally buckshot works to my advantage when I'm gun hunting, in the unique situations I'm hunting in. I have a good killing pattern to 40 yards, great pattern to 35 yards, excellent pattern at 30, and devastating pattern below that. The max shot I can take on my stand is 40 yards which happens to be the rounds and my personal limit. I've patterned many brands of slugs at the exact same ranges and beyond out of my gun, and they shot no more accurately at 40 yards, and at that range they were no more consistent than buckshot. This is because of the shotgun I have (SX3) has a large front bead that makes an accurate shot with a single projectile difficult at any range over 30-35 yards. If I have a deer that comes in at a slow trot at 40 yards, I would never feel comfortable with this setup shooting slugs at that range, its just too high a risk for bad shot placement. Surprisingly I had that EXACT situation happen last year on the stand opening morning when I had my first buck and also buck of a lifetime come within 40 yards at a steady slow trot. ONE shot with buckshot and he hit the dirt and stayed there at 40 yards. If I were using slugs I would have let him walk as I wouldn't be comfortable with the shot and it would have been the greatest hunting regret of my life.

Thats just me personally though. I've done my due diligence and try to do my hunting as humane as I can. I've patterned many brands of loads with many chokes and have done the same with slugs. I would not take any shot no matter what I was using if I knew it wasn't going to end well. I'm only using it ethically, I can promise anyone that. In the right hands its a great load with great potential, in the wrong its a disaster and absolute embarrassment to ethical hunting.

I do understand both sides fully, and completely understand its terrible joke of a reputation. It does not belong in the hands of irresponsible hunters who can't judge distances correctly or cannot control their nerves when they see a deer. If you have the ability to take a breath and line up a shot at a known distance at a range thats acceptable with its pattern, its good. Otherwise slugs are the way to go, hands down.
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I don;t look down my nose at anyone for using buckshot if they are practiced and only take comfortable shots with it.... You seem to know your limits and are willing to let the big one pass and good on you for it.... I know all too many who don;t have your level of restraint....

I hear you on the SX3 sight as well... Great guns but if I owned one I would definitely be swapping the bead out....
 
One time while blocking on a deer drive, I watched 2 deer approaching across a field. I could have shot, but instead let them keep coming as they were angling towards a guy who had not shot a deer in a very long time. Sure enough a minute later he spotted them, and started shooting, problem was, the deer ran right between us, he just continued firing. I was standing next to a very large boulder, so I quickly retreated behind the rock. He finally did connect on the doe, when it was well past him. He apologized to several times over the years, but I have never hunted with him since.

The other crazy hunting related thing I have seen several times, is being at the gun club when guys come in to "sight in" or check their hunting rifles. Fire one, two or several rounds down range, spraying them into the dirt, onto the wrong target, etc. and them pack it up with a "that's good enough".

It's Mind boggling.
 
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Superbrad said:
You take 200m shots with buckshot?.... Are you serious?
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The way I'm reading TheCoachZed's post is that he is saying the place to use buckshot is when you are hunting within close proximity to houses, etc. Buckshot would reduce the range of possible ricochet's etc.
That's what I got from it anyways.
 
Fire306 said:
The way I'm reading TheCoachZed's post is that he is saying the place to use buckshot is when you are hunting within close proximity to houses, etc. Buckshot would reduce the range of possible ricochet's etc.
That's what I got from it anyways.
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Went back and reread.... apologies to coachzed.... I don't do much of my hunting around houses....
 
The stupidest thing I've ever seen occured when I was pushing a patch of bush for a buddy. I emerged from the bush only to find an idiot pointing his rifle at me form about 30 yards away, thinking I was a deer. Him and his mouth breathing pals did not have permission to hunt on this patch of land. Needless to say, I went up one side and down the other at least twice on this clown. He didn't apologize or even speak.
 
when I was a kid we had a boarder who had accidentally shot himself in the neck with a 308 that was loaded and leaned up against a tree with the safety off,the gun slipped off the tree and shot him,he was half paralyzed with a nasty scar on his neck,I learned from a young age about the result of stupidity and gun safety.
 
In NB you have to be a minimum of 100m with a bow, 200m with a shotgun or 400m with a rifle (or shotgun with a single projectile) from any dwelling or place of business in order to discharge a firearm.

I assume this is what CoachZed is referring to.
 
JonMtl said:
Was moose hunting a few weeks ago and a new hunter in our camp was unloading his rifle before entering his pickup. When he removed the safety, the gun went off. He claims his finger was not on the trigger and it appears his rifle's bolt could not be retracted without removing the safety first. Well, he had a nice surprise when he tried starting his pickup, the 30 cal bullet had been shot into his transmission. The mechanic found the bullet lodged in his starter. Some components of the transmission were replaced along with the starter, a 600$ lesson in firearms safety.
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What kind of rifle?..
 
JonMtl said:
Was moose hunting a few weeks ago and a new hunter in our camp was unloading his rifle before entering his pickup. When he removed the safety, the gun went off. He claims his finger was not on the trigger and it appears his rifle's bolt could not be retracted without removing the safety first. Well, he had a nice surprise when he tried starting his pickup, the 30 cal bullet had been shot into his transmission. The mechanic found the bullet lodged in his starter. Some components of the transmission were replaced along with the starter, a 600$ lesson in firearms safety.
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Cheap lesson. Coulda been expensive
 
Years ago I had hunted birds with this fellow a few times(husband of a woman I worked with) and he seemed OK. Next year he asked me to take him deer hunting. So I set him up in one of my tree stands and went to my other one which was about a hundred yards away and set myself up. A few hours later I decided to see if he was alright and checked him out through my binos. There he was sitting in the stand happily smoking a joint. I called it an early day and have never hunted with him since. This was almost 20 years ago.

DF
 
DragonFire said:
Years ago I had hunted birds with this fellow a few times(husband of a woman I worked with) and he seemed OK. Next year he asked me to take him deer hunting. So I set him up in one of my tree stands and went to my other one which was about a hundred yards away and set myself up. A few hours later I decided to see if he was alright and checked him out through my binos. There he was sitting in the stand happily smoking a joint. I called it an early day and have never hunted with him since. This was almost 20 years ago.

DF
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I bet soon as you seen that you threw down your beer can in disgust eh? Anyone who says they dont have a few beers hunting is either a lier or from Ontario/Quebec... could of been worse if you seen him slugging on a 40oz
 
Skip4Play said:
I bet soon as you seen that you threw down your beer can in disgust eh? Anyone who says they dont have a few beers hunting is either a lier or from Ontario/Quebec... could of been worse if you seen him slugging on a 40oz
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I guess I am a liar. Alcohol comes out AFTER the hunt and the firearms are put away.

DF
 
DragonFire said:
I guess I am a liar. Alcohol comes out AFTER the hunt and the firearms are put away.

DF
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Sorry, it just gets my goat when people treat marijuana users as bad people, its ignorant and selfish. True you should wait till after the hunt for your safety and others, but getting stoned and getting drunk are two very very different things.
 
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