What to do if you're scoped?
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eltorro said:
Ive seen many a moron not wearing even a spot of orange in the bush, i once spotted movement on a cut line across a gully, pulled out the binocs and sure enough no orange just head to toe in camo.
orange is a solution if people arent wearing it, and forgetting your binoc's (not directed as an attack on you torro just your statement ) to be able to check out a target safely is irresposible as a hunter. I have never used my scope to check a target.
...........its a very chilling reminder especially in its setting. Not the kind of thing you would expect to see while hunting on a cutline. Almost like seeing a wanted poster in the middle of nowhere. I was taken aback when i first saw it and made a point of visiting it every year for some strange and maybe morbid reason.
lupus said:
The gubmint dropped the orange thing in AB years ago because not only hunters are afield at the same time. Birders, anglers, hikers X-country skiers ad nauseum are as well and they wouldn't take too kindly to dressing up like a crossing guard either. Accidental shootings of innocent hunters did not sky-rocket as predicted by some.
lupus said:
I don't wear any blaze in the bush at all, just full camo. I checked in the mirror and I'm sure I don't look like a bighorn sheep.
The morons aren't the folks wearing what they want, they're the ones pointing rifles at other hunters. I ain't never seen a camo moose.
...................x2. Any pic on this forum of me with my game shows that i don't where any blaze orange, yellow, pink or tye dye. If you can't tell that i am human on a cutline be it 50-1000 yards please do me and yourself a favour and stay home on the couch.
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lupus said:
Never worn any orange etc. when in the bush. So I guess I am a moron
If memory serves me correctly, the last two hunters shot around here were wearing blaze orange and looking like popsicles
I dont want to announce where I am an the bush, I see most hunters and other folk long before they see me, and I like it that way. And yes, I use bino's when looking around, never a scoped rifle (read previous post on the subject).
Moron out
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lupus said:
So you saw movement on a cut line and used your binocs to double check, you did right.
Did that person wearing full camo look like a moose, elk, deer, or bear? I have never seen any animals that dress up in camo for hunting season. Have you? Maybe wholesale gives hunted animals a deal on good camo before hunting season starts
There is no reason to be pointing a rifle at anything other than a target, unless you intend to kill it. Anyone who does not know this needs more education on hunting. Please educate yourself before you kill someone.
Like Boo said earlier, point a rifle at me and find out.
lupus said:
Orange has never been a requiremnet in BC, and we don't seem to shoot each other that often...
It would be a waste of time, anyway, since -as pointed out- there are alolt of back country users that are not hunters....
You maybe ned to get out a bit and look around?
crazy_davey said:So you saw movement on a cut line and used your binocs to double check, you did right.
Did that person wearing full camo look like a moose, elk, deer, or bear? I have never seen any animals that dress up in camo for hunting season. Have you? Maybe wholesale gives hunted animals a deal on good camo before hunting season starts
There is no reason to be pointing a rifle at anything other than a target, unless you intend to kill it. Anyone who does not know this needs more education on hunting. Please educate yourself before you kill someone.
Like Boo said earlier, point a rifle at me and find out.
An incident that happened to me comes to mind.
We were returning to the boat after a day of moose hunting. The last guy shows up to the boat and begins unloading his firearm, whenit discharges over the heads of the people sitting in the boat. Thank God he remembered muzzle control. After a good barage from the people sitting in the boat, we calmed down enough for the guy t explain that he did nothing but take the safety off.
Having been safe in all the years of hunting with him we gave him the benefit of the doubt. Back at camp I proceeded to tare the rifle appart and try to duplicate events leading up to the incident. What I found out is that the gun ,from the previous owner, had been modified to the point where the sear could be released with the safety on. And the safety would hold back the firing pin till the point where the safety is switched off. This would release the firing pin.
Point of the whole story is that our friend had been sitting in his stand "pretend shooting" Scoping stuff out and pulling the trigger with the safety on. Mechanical things do fail. Had he pointed the rifle at something else and practiced going thru the motions. He probably would have shot what ever the rifle was pointing at when he released the safety. Legal or otherwise.
The barrel should not be pointed at anything until you are ready to shoot it.
Its just a common sence safety issue
crazy_davey said:So you saw movement on a cut line and used your binocs to double check, you did right.
Did that person wearing full camo look like a moose, elk, deer, or bear? I have never seen any animals that dress up in camo for hunting season. Have you? Maybe wholesale gives hunted animals a deal on good camo before hunting season starts
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I guess my eyesight is better than most, if i see movement in the bush 50 or 1000 m away im going to check it out, i mean im not there to sight see im there to hunt. you cant disinguish a deer from a guy in camo from super far away if all you saw was movement. Since there are people out there who use a scope to find out, i personally wear a bit of orange if its going to help save my life. Hell when i was a kid in the late 70's we used to hunt in jeans and a orange jacket. Nowadays guys sit in full camo covered in mule piss to get a deer
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338 fan said:
Pointing a rifle at someone should never be a mistake. This is how stupid accidents happen.
crazy_davey said:
What I'm saying is does he know for sure that he was scoping him or something in his vicinity. Does he know for sure that the other guy even knew he was there. In his original post he said he had to wave his arms to get his attention. If the other guy never knew he was there then he (Boo) was way off base for doing what he did.
lupus Hell when i was a kid in the late 70's we used to hunt in jeans and a orange jacket. Nowadays guys sit in full camo covered in mule piss to get a deer:eek: I guess either the deer are gettin smarter or people want to be rambo:D[/QUOTE said:
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338 fan said:
No one should be scoping anything with thier rifle unless they intend to shoot it, look with binos first, then raise rifle when you are sure of your target.
Pointing a rifle at something when not knowing what it is, is how dumb accidents happen.
I dont think Boo was out of line at all. He was there and I am sure he knew how serious the situation was at the time. Not for us to judge.
