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Hunter shoots at 1 caribou, hits 2 and is cited for being over limit
Alasja Dispatch News ^
| September 2, 2015
| Michelle Theriault Boots|
Posted on 09/03/2015 11:04:42 AM PDT by skeptoid
A hunter from Minnesota was cited for taking a caribou over bag limit in the Northwest Arctic after a bullet from his gun passed through the caribou that was his intended target and hit another caribou, killing it.
Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Kotzebue cited Nathan Olson, 38, on Sept. 1, Alaska State Troopers wrote in an online dispatch Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
TOPICS: Government; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: alaska; caribou; wildlifetroopers
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To: DannyTN
A moose once bit my sisters. All of them?
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:05:45 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: skeptoid
"Too much gun"
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:06:28 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: grobdriver
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:08:23 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Pearls Before Swine
Worth repeating:
Rule #4: Know your target and what is behind it.
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:26:21 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: skeptoid
Did that deer hunting one time. Killed the first one and knocked the one behind down. Went over and capped the one that was down and filled both tags at one time.
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:30:11 PM PDT
by
crz
To: shotgun; W.
See #11.
Col. Cooper also noted that “enough gun” _must_ be capable of full penetration to assure a clean kill. That would leave enough energy to likely take down another, as happened.
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:30:14 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: skeptoid
My suggestion is that a hunter gets a get out of jail free card for the first time, but on probation for the next 10 or 15 years.
Should cover accidents, but not allow ‘gaming’.
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:33:46 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
To: skeptoid
Good argument for 6.5mm or 7mm match bullets.
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posted on
09/03/2015 12:54:23 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: ctdonath2
Optimal results would be driving the projectile to the mid-animal to disrupt the vitals and drop the critter. I don’t recall reading Cooper say much different, as driving the round clean through both sides of the critter will leave a pelt with an extra hole! ;) Perhaps it depends on the game at hand and its dangerosity.
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posted on
09/03/2015 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
W.
(Get a rope. Now.)
To: skeptoid
Hunter shoots at 1 caribou, hits 2 and is cited for being over limit Damn!
And here I thought that for a crime charge to be valid there must be the element of intent!
Wanna be a bureaucrat?
I.Q. over 60?
F A I L !
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posted on
09/03/2015 1:25:09 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
To: EternalVigilance
More often than not you don't see the second animal. You can always buy one of those reality "freeze" devices that stops everything, and then run over there and check...
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posted on
09/03/2015 1:28:20 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
To: ctdonath2
Rule #4: Know your target and what is behind it. Full disclosure... I am NOT and have never been a hunter...
Nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit nit...
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posted on
09/03/2015 1:32:14 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
To: publius911
To: publius911
Not getting your point.
Bullets tend to go thru things. If it does, you’d darned well better know what it’s likely to hit next.
And yes, while hunting you can know, and know when you don’t know.
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posted on
09/03/2015 1:58:21 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: EternalVigilance
“More often than not you don’t see the second animal. “
Animals don’t understand the cover vs. concealment thing.
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posted on
09/03/2015 2:01:56 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
To: W.
Col. Cooper always said, Use enough gun!
Perhaps, too much gun, or maybe a really thin first caribou?
Maxim 34: If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun.
To: Svartalfiar
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posted on
09/03/2015 4:57:44 PM PDT
by
W.
(Get a rope. Now.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Know what is behind your target. About 47 OTHER caribou, and they are usually running.
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posted on
09/03/2015 9:51:35 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(I'm a sucker for pulchritude)
To: BobinIL
I would like to know how this is a story worthy of being reported?? It was a headline article in Alaska's largest (by a few orders of magnitude) newspaper.
And it sounds like you may already know the political leanings of the Alaska Dispatch News.
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posted on
09/03/2015 9:59:53 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(I'm a sucker for pulchritude)
To: skeptoid
Like Chris Carter said, “have a fall guy.”
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posted on
09/04/2015 1:25:22 PM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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