Posted on 11/17/2019 3:42:10 PM PST by BenLurkin
The incident occurred after the men went looking for a deer that one brother had shot earlier with a muzzle-loading rifle, reported the Ionia County Sheriff's Office on its Facebook page.
The shooter, a 29-year-old man from Saranac, told authorities that he believed he saw the deer moving and fired, but after firing realized he had struck his 28-year-old brother. He called 911 immediately for help and the two siblings walked out of the dense corn field where they were hunting and were met by first responders, reported ABC Grand Rapids affiliate, WZZM13.
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Brothers from different Mothers.
So sorry to hear that. There was a similar incident in the news some years ago. A father thought he was shooting at a deer, but he had shot his young son by mistake. His son died in his arms. When someone else ran for help, a second shot was heard. The father had taken his own life. Tragic, but sadly, not so uncommon.
I have been in places where it rained #7 and #7.5 shot during Dove and Quail season. lol
I'm just happy to be right about being wrong, that's all. :^).
If you strive to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Cervs no purpose to misspell.
I thought it was Corn Buck....
Difference between Horns and Antlers:
Now this is a true story...
“The Walmart Bighorn Sheep”
One day my wife and I parked in Walmart and were on our way up to the doors when I saw a bunch of very young Walmart employees pointing and staring into a van. against my wife’s objections I just had to go see what was up. I circled around behind them listening to what the conversation was about.
“That is illegal”, “No one has the right to keep a Bighorn sheep in a van like that, “did you call the cops yet?”, “yes they are on their way”. I walked past them up to the van and looked in just to make sure I was right, but it was a normal barnyard Goat. I laughed and headed back towards my wife and the cop pulled up on a motorcycle. He asked me to stop for a minute and asked me if that was my van.
I laughed and told him “no it is not, but I sure wish it was!”. he looked at me funny and went to check out the crime scene with the Walmart “Bighorn”, Now keep in mind this is a very rural agricultural area with folks who own livestock of all sorts. There is no law against loading a goat into a van and transporting it anywhere you like, it is NOT a pet, and it was NOT a “Bighorn Sheep”.
As we were shopping I heard them page for the person who owns the white van with the “Bighorn Sheep” in it. On the way out I found out the officer did indeed try to arrest the owner of the van for being in possession of an “endangered species”. Apparently a supervisor was called and he told him to go away before they get sued for this stupidity...
City people... So the ignorance of those kids could have caused some real problems if it had been allowed to proceed based on “their” expertise. And what the hell was wrong with that Cop to even believe it? lol
Probably something like seeing shapes in clouds. Really, really neat story, though, regardless!
And nothing like this, although this is also interesting:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Davis
That’s funny; but interesting that it happened in a ‘very rural agricultural area’ where you would think that people would know the difference.
We seem to be very ‘separated’ these days, even in our own local neighborhoods.
I would love to think this was indeed trolling but I will leave it in the undetermined category as I think back on the lady that came out years ago while we were flowing the hydrant in front of her house and asked if we could move it since she had lived there a long time and it was only fair for someone else to have to look at it.
That's what you get for driving a brown stationwagon.
With a roof rack.
And a white license plate."....
Jeff Foxworthy
City vs Country. This is what it has come down to in everything both logically and culturally. All of it comes down to this cultural divide concerning common sense and rationality. One has it, the other does not.
LOL...those are some great headlights and that deer is just frozen in them.
When I was coming of age in the late 1960s-early 70s, the hippies were all about ‘Nature’ and ‘going back to the land.’ It was to a great extent sincere - if somewhat naively so - and wasn’t really politicized, yet.
I guess some of them are conservatives, now; but most of them don’t seem to have really understood the distinction between truly living from the land, with all its exigencies - or just talking about it, in rebellion against the ‘order’ they perceived. Nor did they really pass any intelligent values on to their children.
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