Posted on 12/08/2004 8:07:05 AM PST by phasma proeliator
Horrible, horrible, unfortunate accident. Prayers for the poor victim and his family. It would appear that the farmer is very remorseful. Prayers for him that he may be able to live with his mistake.
Well, it would be one thing if he thought they were geese and he was shooting at them. Instead, the farmer states that he shot in the general direction - violating one of the prime rules of firing a gun that you know where your bullet is going to go.
Would that the pro-abort crowd would get that same message.
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Not an accident. Firing a weapon without determining the target or what is beyond it is negligence. Especially with a rifle. If he wants to scare birds he should use a shotgun with light shot or bird bombs.
Idiots with guns.
"Johnson was using an SKS 7.62x39-cal. rifle with open sights and no magnifying scope. The weapon is a popular rifle for target or varmint shooting and not generally used for big-game hunts."
Just last month the media told us that the SKS was an "assault rifle".
Kudos to this paper for getting it right.
Seems to me he didn't have a right to chase the geese away in the first place.
What a horrible tragedy. I feel for both of them.
The guy really shouldn't have been shooting into the flock, though. Geese are frightened by the noise of a firearm, not by seeing one of their buddies fall over.
Still, I'll bet he did that a thousand times with no problem. How awful.
This doesn't sound real smart. Disguising oneself as game on hunting grounds?
If you read the article you will learn that the state had rented the adjacent land from the farmer for use as a public hunting area.
Informing him or getting his permission was not required.
He had already sold his permission to the state.
where these guys trespassing on his property? I mean he was shooting into one of his fields... How would he know that there would be people there? especially if they were hidden in a duck decoy.
Welcome to FR, like the screen-name.
geezus
What??? I always thought his name was spelled "Jesus"?
smart or not - it's common practice.
It seems to me the landowner is clearly at fault - at least for negligence. The hunters did nothing wrong.
Although in his defense, he did check out the field with binoculars first. Nontheless, this was still an accident and therefor preventable.
it was his property - but he had given the hunting rights over to the public.
they were not trespassing or doing anything illegal (at least not from what this article says).
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