Some hunters are stupid. Don’t hunt unless you know what your doing with a gun/bow.
Sounds like he’s a basically responsible guy who has learned his lesson about gun safety the hard way. I don’t really see any point to locking him up, if he’s willing to pay the family a big chunk of his future earnings. The only effect would be to waste tax dollars keeping him locked up, and prevent him from doing anything to help the family for however long he’s locked up. And he already saved taxpayers a bundle by pleading guilty.
We’ve got such a huge number of people either not being locked up in the first place, or being let out after obscenely short times, despite a history of repeated criminal acts and no evidence of intention to stop committing crimes, that I just can’t see the point of locking this guy up. Revoke his 2A rights, leave the manslaughter conviction on his record, and let him go do the best he can to set things right.
378 feet from an occupied dwelling that isn’t yours or someone you know is close. Close enough that a hunter needs to be more careful as people, pets and livestock might be wandering about.
If he was from Queens, he was a city boy hunting in what we in the West would consider to be somewhat like a suburb. ...scary (treed and populated). He didn’t find out where the local homes were. He also used a western cartridge in an eastern area. .300 Win Mags are not needed in the east, even for defense against black bears. Bear diets and terrain are different there (much smaller bear except for the rare fatso). In much of the west, one can see for many miles without trees blocking views of homes, and winds are often high (reasons for .300 and .338 Win. Mags.).