Posted on 11/15/2011 10:20:24 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
ALBION, Ind. (WANE) - A Fort Wayne man died Monday while participating in a reduction hunt at Chain O'Lakes State Park. Officials say he suffered an injury to his liver that possibly happened during an encounter he had with a deer he shot.
Indiana Conservation Officers have closed the investigation into the death of Paul J. Smith, 62, after the Noble County Coroner’s office ruled it was due to a lacerated liver.
According to the Department of Natural Resources, Smith called his son shortly after 9 a.m. and left a message that he'd shot a buck. When Smith’s son returned the called around 10:30 a.m., Smith told him that after coming down from his tree stand to field dress and tag the deer, he discovered it was still alive and that he scuffled with the animal before killing it with a knife.
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This place has attracted some antihunting fools of late.
Huh? Please read his post again. It’s the hunter’s comeuppance to die because he hunts?
Yeah, cause maybe we should cheer the death of a man who leaves a family behind. That’s a tuff choice to make. /s
Trying to buck the trend for scraping by, he died rooting out his issues which, sadly, his subscription to had lapsed for lack of air....
Freak...
“...about how that deer felt...”
*****
Buck lay still, shoving any feelings he might have as far into the recessess of his body as he could. Those feelings of fear, pain, of sadness of not seeing his beloved doe again — now was not the time for feelings. Those feelings he knew would betray him.
As the hunter approached, Buck drew on all of his experience - the quiet breathing through his open mouth, his body relaxed - at one with the leaves below him. He knew that he would soon draw his last breath, but his last breath would be his finest.
The hunter, now kneeling so close that Buck could smell his sweat mingled with that of damp wool. And his breath across his nostrils smelled of stale tobacco. It was THEN that Buck summoned all of his energy - and striked out against his assassin.
Buck did not have the pleasure of watching his nemisis die - but he knew that it would come as he watched him crawl for the insignificant refuge of a nearby tree. It would offer no protection from the agonizing, slow death that Buck knew that he had inflicted on him.
And so, on his final breath he allowed his feelings to come to the surface, and with it whispered - “revenge”.
Apparently so. I had,t realized. ‘Vegatarian’ is an ancient Shawnee name for ‘ bad hunter’.
There are some sick fks here.
PETA card carrying trolls.
I’m sure their vegans though..../s
Hey! That was pretty darn good. I enjoyed that.
Yeah, truly. I guess some think that Bambi was a documentary.
I’m not cheering his death, but I am finding it hard to be all heartbroken about it as well.
I feel the same way about it as I would when a guy goes parachuting and the chute doesn’t open. When you engage in dangerous sports, you accept that the dice may come up snake-eyes.
Now granted, getting killed by a deer that you have already shot is a heck of a way to go, but — oh well...
you are one twisted individual.
His wife will sue the deers family because...They got doe!
Because your food always comes wrapped in plastic wrap?
Most states allow for carrying a side arm while rifle hunting.
Too bad for his family. He should have waited longer if the buck was still alive. That or shoot it again.
Legal in PA.
The deer was feeling that Occupy Wall Street had been coopted and was no longer accomplishing the goals that he had been hoping for when it began.
Yea, I was shocked at the anti-hunting comments too. But even worse is when people mock the death of a human by an animal. I guess some conservatives can be Godless idiots like liberals.
Did you see this antelope attack? It's wild...
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