Posted on 12/18/2024 8:26:04 AM PST by Red Badger
Awful stuff out of the Old Dominion:
A beloved father died after he was seriously injured during a hunting accident while with his son in Virginia, officials said.
Lester Clayton Harvey Jr., 58, was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of a tree where his group of houndsmen had chased a bear in Lunenburg County on Dec. 9, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources told McClatchy News in an email. One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell.
Harvey was a hunting enthusiast and appeared to regularly go on excursions in the woods with family and friends:
His son Josh said in a Facebook post that his dad was "a hard working, kind, caring man" who " never missed a day of work," who "would give you the shirt off his back," and who "[loved] the outdoors and wouldn't miss a good hunt for nothing:"
His daughter echoed those remarks, writing that Harvey was the "hardest worker I know" and was always "either working or hunting:"
He put a roof on with vertigo, framed houses with sickness, he never missed work. Well unless there was a good hunt to be had.
Josh later wrote of his father: "I am so thankful for all the memories we made and all you taught me I wouldn't be the man I am now if it wasn't for you."
RIP.
Ping!..................
Shot a treed bear?
I’m no hunter so I’m speaking from a position of ignorance but is that an acceptable way to harvest a bear?
At the very least it sure doesn’t sound very sporting
Poetic justice?
One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell.
One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell.
I always heard that when shooting bears out of trees you should get out of the way.
Got it thanks......just doesn’t sound like the animal has much of a chance to me
Hope they stuff the bear.
That’s a pretty small bear!
Hatchet Jack:
“This is the gun that killed the bear that killed me.”
Well at 32ft/sec/sec it wouldn’t be................
Shooting a treed bear is not sporting. Standing under a treed bear while your hunting party shoots at it is worthy of a Darwin Award.
I hunt venison and pork. 0 desire to hunt bear. I shoot from trees, not up into them...
Seems archaic.
Besides bruised up meat is not harvestable.
“I shoot from trees”
Which as I understand it comes with it’s own set of unique hazzards.
I worked around a guy in the early 2000s that hunted from a tree stand.
Dude fell on two separate occasions, 2nd time fractured his pelvis, couldn’t walk and laid out in the woods two days.
One of his hunting buddies told me he told him he should give up hunting and take up knitting. 😁
I’m no hunter so I’m speaking from a position of ignorance but is that an acceptable way to harvest a bear?
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Hounds are used to track, chase, and tree the animal. His hunting buddy must have shot the animal without giving him any warning.
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