Turkey Hunters - careful out there

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Woman shot while hunting Unless this woman has a beard, I'm pretty certain this hunter did not positively identify his target. Makes a bad name for all of us when I heard this on the radio this morning. (ammo for antis - hunting is safer than golf if you read the statistics)

Woman shot while hunting
Tue, May 22, 2007
By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA

A 41-year-old London woman was hit by a shotgun blast yesterday morning while hunting wild turkeys with a 52-year-old London man.

Norfolk Ontario Provincial Police said the woman suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to her upper body and was taken by paramedics to Tillonsburg and District Memorial Hospital for treatment.

The shooting occurred about 8 a.m when the two were in a bush lot in Norfolk in former Houghton Township, police said.

After setting up a turkey decoy, the pair then waited in separate areas of the bush. The woman decided to move to a different spot in the bush, putting her closer to the decoy.

Police said the man saw movement near the turkey decoy and fired his shotgun.

A conservation officer from the Natural Resources Ministry is assisting OPP with the investigation.
 
Police said the man saw movement near the turkey decoy and fired his shotgun.
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The only positive I can see (besides the injuries not being too serious) is that the woods should be safer for everyone going forward. Lets hope this idiot never picks up a gun again.
 
Police said the man saw movement near the turkey decoy and fired his shotgun.
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Aw, the sure sign of a true hunter and professional outdoorsman. Shooting at glimpses of movement should be in every hunters bag of tricks.

This weekend will be the last of the season, any bets on another incident before the season closes.
 
Geezuz I get pissed everytime I read this nonsense... sounds like this ass-hat shot his wife or girlfriend. Who the hell is gonna do the dishes now?
Seriously... what does this say about the mandatory Turkey Hunting Safety Course that everyone in Ontario has to take?
I think this course needs another look to... maybe it needs to be ####-canned and a new program adopted.
 
I hope the idiot who shot her gos to jail and they take away all his hunting privledges and rights to bare arms!!!! Morons like that we don't need or want in our fraternity. This is nothing to do with the course it is simply a unsafe hunter period there is no way you can mistake a person for a turkey soon we will have to wear blaze orange turkey hunting.
 
Most once a year hunters who are dangerous/unsafe when they have a gun in their hands used to only have one chance per year to accidentally shoot some one. That chance would usually come in the remote depths of the northern Ontario bush during a moose hunt. When there is no one around, no one was likely to be hurt by these kind of fools.

Now the morons have another season to be dangerous/unsafe in closer proximity to other hunters and also in hunt that is usually done in pairs. This is just the law of probability.
 
BIGREDD said:
Geezuz I get pissed everytime I read this nonsense... sounds like this ass-hat shot his wife or girlfriend. Who the hell is gonna do the dishes now?
Seriously... what does this say about the mandatory Turkey Hunting Safety Course that everyone in Ontario has to take?
I think this course needs another look to... maybe it needs to be s**t-canned and a new program adopted.
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+2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 here. The course in an absolute joke. They only want people to pass, no matter what. When I took my course they already had the "Certificates" filled out, before they even started in the morning. What a joke. Like someone else already mentioned, at least there is one less asshat out there while I am hunting, and I hope he loses his hunting privledges forever.

I feel sorry for the person/girlfriend/spouse that he shot. Lucky for him though, there are those that might have felt it nesecary to return fire.

7.62mm
 
I agree idiots like that need to go to jail & be passed around like a pack of cigarettes. There is no place in hunting for idiots who don't identify what they are shooting at. I also don't blame the Turkey Hunting Seminar. The seminar I attended was well run by 2 retired CO's who stressed safety throughout the course.
Thankfully people that cause problems like this are a very small part of the hunting fraternity. It's a real shame that someone has to suffer because of these a**hats.

George

George
 
I thought my course was good too. Run by Rocky Crawford of OFAH and another guy I cannot remember the name of that was an equally good speaker.
 
hunt365 said:
....rights to bare arms!!!! QUOTE]

Wrong side of the border buddy ;)

The worst part of this story is how one of the few women who actually condone hunting is probably turned off of it now.
Way to go jackass.
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First and FOREMOST in every hunters or for that matter anyone operating a firearm should be safety! There are NO second chances and you can't call it back once its down the tube. Common sense isn't so common I guess. These so called accidents should be made more public and use them as an example to those who practice unsafe handling of firearms. Here's a honest question....why can't people stay where they are put when hunting?
 
MauserMike said:
I thought my course was good too. Run by Rocky Crawford of OFAH and another guy I cannot remember the name of that was an equally good speaker.
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He's one of the best fishermen I know of, but didnt know he turkey hunts... Hmmmm
 
i wouldnt blame the turkey hunting course over this. Thats like blaming the driving instructor that gave the licence to the chick that rear-ended me a couple days ago, dumb b*tch should of just paid attention!!


hopefully this guy is stripped of his firearms licence and isnt EVER aloud to hunt again, not in canada anyways.
 
DVXDUDE said:
i wouldnt blame the turkey hunting course over this. Thats like blaming the driving instructor that gave the licence to the chick that rear-ended me a couple days ago, dumb b*tch should of just paid attention!!


hopefully this guy is stripped of his firearms licence and isnt EVER aloud to hunt again, not in canada anyways.
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two wrongs do not make it right
she moved without telling her partner
he shot at a sound
its a wonder how either of them passed anything
 
These type of hunters are dangerous in any season, luckily it wasn't deer season, she'd have taken some serious lead.
 
There is something we can all learn from this.

No matter how good you are, think you are, or might be, know, or dont know your hunting partner, Its never safe to let safety slide.
2 people making 2 potentially fatal mistakes and likely thought things were fine until the shot...

Sad, but common... except for the shot part...
some people become too comfortable with they're guns, and sport. This is a recipe for disaster. IMHO
 
Chilly Willy said:
Here's a stupid question....why can't people stay where they are put when hunting?
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There, I fixed it for you.

You've never been in the field on any occasion in which you've felt that moving to a different position would offer you a better shot, wind advantage, field of fire, comfort etc. etc?

Unless you've got a mile of flat ground in every direction around you, moving around is part of successful hunting.

Not that I'm defending this idiot for shooting at a sound, or her for not communicating her intentions, but to suggest that it's her fault just for moving it a pretty asinine statement.
 
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