Hunter shot by another Hunter near Calgary

catnthehatt said:
Shooster, the point I ws trying to make was that sometimes there are circumstances that we as readers are not aware of.
However, if I was going to set up a decoy you can bet that I would be weraing a bunch of orange!
The guy may have been down below the shooters line of sight or something like that, but I still think it goes back to being completely certain of your target before firing.....
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Agreed in full.
 
no kidding.

Cammo is used to HIDE in the woods.

couple that with hanging on to an object that is designed to look JUST LIKE something that people are SUPPOSED TO be shooting at is just Darwin at its best!
 
One of our guys had a man walk up to him in the bush wearing a complete black outfit, with the hood up.
He was a city fella, (Ottawa) just out for a walk.
It really points out the old "Know your target".
Be carefull out there.
 
irish said:
I never did hear what happened to the hunter that was shot, did the media say if the guy is going to be OK.

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He's ok. At his request, his name was not released. Can't say I blame him.
As I said in a previous post, we were less then 5kms away. There were quite a few hunters in the area that day. We had already filled our tags so we were just camping/4x4ing. We still wore orange.

Members from the Calgary area know how crazy it can get out there. I can't believe he would even consider bow hunting, let alone with a decoy.

Storms right. Darwin award candidate.
 
I can see this totally happening when someone is wearing camo. So much camo today is totally realistic and it's hard to see. As for the decoy, some are pretty good. Here in Ont. the MNR places decoys to catch poachers, even during the acutally gun hunt. I was hunting a property, that has a small field, with a bush backstop. Just inside the treeline are some nice clearnings with nice deer runs. This maybe 30-40 yards in the bush. Fews years back i went to a clearing i like to sit on (i travel to it from inside the bush) The MNR came along sometime that morning and set up a decoy in the field. I hunted until lunch and headed out to my truck. One of the guys i hunt with is passing the field on his way back to camp to and can see me getting into my truck. He pulls over, gets out and Jumps the fence, loads his guns and starts shooting. Then there are all kinds of lights and trucks coming from everywere.
I stand there and watch as the MNR try to charge him for shooting the stuffed deer (mechanical too). Since we had the only permission for the property nothing could be done. We walked over to the stuffed deer, It was an real deer hide (so he thought he was shooting a real deer) stuffed and it was only 50-60 yards to were i was sitting. I could have easily been shot in the back depending on were someone had shot from. I was in full hunter orange and was still not visible from the field due to the undergrowth. This year we had major problems with guys not having permission hunting properties we hunt. We came across 4 guys all in camo (not allowed in Ont.) during the gun hunt that were very hard to see cause of were they were in thick bush. If any of us had been shooting at a deer, we could have easily shot them and not known about it. As far as i'm concerned there is no need to hunt in camo during the deer hunt, i have seen no evidence from my experiences hunting deer that they can see orange, so that's all i wear.
 
If you shoot something without KNOWING what it is , you are %100 at fault! That said, as a hunter you have to realize that there are guys behind the trigger that tend to find out what they are looking at by shooting it, so carrying a decoy on public land on a holiday might not be advisable. As for Camo, there have been plenty of guys wearing blaze orange who have been shot. This was a sad comedy or errors.
 
And that is why I look like a blaze orange tennis ball when I'm hunting. Way too many inexperienced hunters throwing lead.
 
agilent_one said:
Who cares?!? I "rifle-hunt" in camo all the time. Of course, I also know what a real, live deer looks like.

The idiot that shot him should be hung.
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I've been in alberta hunting. To be quite honest fellas a little mandatory orange wouldnt hurt !!!!!!!
 
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