And it was a close call (too close for comfort). Hopefully future hunters take note.
Posted on 11/21/2007 8:32:23 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A 13-year-old boy out deer hunting with his father had his hat shot off his head but wasn't injured. Jeffrey Trepanier, 32, called the sheriff's office Monday to report someone shot the hat off his son's head while they hunted on public lands just north of Theresa.
"That was way too close for comfort,'' said Dodge County Sheriff's Deputy Chief Blaine Lauersdorf. "We searched the area and where unable to determine where the shot came from.''
Lauersdorf said the incident only reinforces that hunters must make sure of their target before pulling the trigger.
He cited a case last weekend in Waushara County in which a man inadvertently shot and killed his 18-year-old grandson, mistaking him for a deer.
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Let's be careful, out there.
Ping.....
I don’t hunt anymore but I stay off the state land this time of year. Partly for my own safety but mostly because I don’t want to disturb those who do hunt. I’ll be able to get back out into the woods after Christmas.
People are not using safety when shooting anymore. Perhaps we need to have a safety standdown and reeducate folks on gun safety. We do that in the military and it works very effectively. Perhaps have a three day national safety days. Yes it will also cause no hunting for three days but in the long run will help this cause.
Maybe he was wearing those funny antler hats?
(Thank goodness no one hurt, and the dummy who took the shot should also be counting his blessings and maybe think about taking up fishing instead...)
Baloney. People are using gun safety all over the country.
The Drive-by's are extremely quick to point out the accidents. They will always happen. They have always happened. And they will continue to happen.
Yes, gun safety is important...if I had my way...it would be taught in Jr. High...if not sooner. But that's not gonna happen.
Yes, the irony is that the liberal folks who get most horrified about the accidents are the same folks who will fight any effort to teach responsible gun ownership in schools.
“...in which a man inadvertently shot and killed his 18-year-old grandson, mistaking him for a deer.”
The idiot kid wrapped himself in a BROWN BLANKET and laid down to take a nap in the woods!
What a stupid thing to do, and what a living hell for Grandpa for the rest of his life. Yeesh!
Wonder if there has been a report from the laundry yet on whether it scared him.. Wow. Was it Churchill that said: “Nothing is as exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Around my parts, hunters have to wear orange. 99% of the hunters wear an orange hat to meet this requirement. Wonder if this young hunter had an *orange* hat shot off his head? My dad taught me to not shoot unless I could see the head and the tail, and our whitetails had no orange on them anywhere..
Orange is the rule here in MN as it is in WI. The rule in MN is 2/3. Not sure what it is in WI. I don’t hunt with anything less than 100% blaze and the people that hunt with me are the same.
We’ve never had a close call.
That’s one lucky kid!
Nice name for the town, and withanh, too! I like it.
Bingo!!
Agreed....
'nuff said.....
A hat would not provide enough resistance for a projectile to transfer its energy if shot at a low trajectory.
A shotgun slug, arcing down from a high trajectory could be slow enough to transfer energy, but then he would have found it close by to where he was standing and maybe hit his head as well (lots of blood).
A few buckshot pellets (00 or 000)could do the job, but it would be expected that he would have a few embedded in his head and he would have seen the person standing nearby.
I think he jumped/flinched when he heard a shot and tree limb/bush knocked it off.
Bush's fault?
Big deal. I see this all the time on TV and in movies.
And it was a close call (too close for comfort). Hopefully future hunters take note.
I base this on the following quote, considering that WI law states you will have 50% blaze orange on..
"If you're out there during hunting season, make sure you are wearing something that stands out,'' he said.
That sounds like a guy who doesn't know the hunting laws.
FWIW
Thanks.
Something just doesn’t fit here, somehow.
“Trepanier” is the kid’s name who has his hat shot off his head. “Trepanning” is the act of drilling a hole in one’s skull. Coincidence?? And I know in the movies it’s so easy to shoot a hat off someone’s head, because it’s not real bullets and the hat isn’t actually being shot off. In real life, a bullet hitting almost anywhere on a hat, such as a hunting hat, would have to hit skull.
Maybe it happened as they said. Maybe it’s all a really odd coincidence. And it would be nice to have a “reporter” who could actually write a coherent paragraph or two and answer the old questions of “who, what, where, when, why and how”. Like what was the kid doing at the time of the gunshot, where did the shot come from and end up at and where did it hit the hat, what type of hat was it, etc. It’s getting that most snooze media stories are poorly thought out and written cliff notes synopses that leave out all the important parts.
Just sayin’...
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