Hunter mistakes girl's horse for a deer

Star Tribune ^ | Nov. 13, 2002 | Dennis Anderson

[wallcrawlr]

Twelve-year-old Lindsey Duffield of Browns Valley, Minn., loves horses, and Saturday morning -- the opening of deer season -- she was riding one of her favorites, a white 9-year-old mare named Princess.

Striding along the driveway of her grandfather's farm on the edge of town, Lindsey and Princess trailed behind them a dark bay gelding, its halter fixed to a lead rope that Lindsey was holding. Lindsey and the two horses were traveling toward her parents' farm a short distance away.

[wallcrawlr]

200 yards???
This armchair hunter probably barely sees his hands in front of his face.

Idiot.

[Dallas]

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[Dick Vomer]

He shot at the "deer"... with a small girl nearby. The father should kick his a#$ and stuff the 12g shot gun in there for storage over the winter. what a jerk off.

[Drango]

No charges have been filed.

huh?

[DainBramage]

How many white deer have you ever seen?

[Howie]

He may have been aiming at the horse in tow, hard to believe even a near-blind man mistaking a white horse for a deer. Pathetic story.

[Cuttnhorse]

Exactly right...what an idiot.

Irresponsible hunters are ruining the sport for the thoughtful few that are still out there. Where I used to live in Idaho, every season idiots kill cattle and horses...most of the time they're killed while grazing in a pasture!

The little girl was very lucky she wasn't hit.

[XJarhead]

Hey, for a few moments that geezer thought he was the luckiest man alive. Can imagine thinking you were getting a shot at a deer the size of a horse</>?

[tomakaze]

When I was a kid our pastor used to tell a story about getting a pack mule shot out from under him on an elk hunting trip.
 
You get these (mostly urbanite) twits that think that just because they got a scope they can fire at anything vaguely four legged.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

She hadn't been hit. But Princess had taken a 12-gauge slug in her front shoulder, Traverse County Sheriff Don Montonye said, fired by an 89-year-old neighbor sitting in a chair 200 yards away.

And they don't know if charges will be filed? Unbelievable!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Doe!

[Sonny M]

I would kick this guys ass without mercy, law be damned, and beat the ever living piss out of him.

[SlickWillard]

The father should kick his a#$ and stuff the 12g shot gun in there for storage over the winter. what a jerk off

If I had a daughter, and someone shot anything in her direction [not to mention a 12 gauge slug], I'd kill him plain and simple, no questions asked.

[300winmag]

This armchair hunter probably barely sees his hands in front of his face.

At 89, he probably shouldn't be hunting at all. And I doubt if sitting on your front porch and shooting is legally considered "hunting". At least not in Michigan, where you can't discharge a firearm anywhere near a dwelling during hunting season.

A friend braids strips of safety orange plastic into the manes of her horses during hunting season, and she doesn't leave the house herself without wearing safety orange. And this is in a shotgun-only area, where ranges are much shorter.

[Illbay]

Ban all hunting.

[Billy_bob_bob]

It sure was nice of this guy to give every gun grabbing nutcake in the country a juicy story to use to frighten everyone into giving up their guns. He just did more to help take away our Second Amendment rights than Clinton did.

Would someone be kind enough to take ol' Deadeye's guns away from him?

[Snuffington]

Irresponsible hunters are ruining the sport for the thoughtful few that are still out there.

I'm not sure an old guy sitting on his deck with a shotgun is technically a "hunter."

[SpinyNorman]

I seem to recall that some drunken sod mistook a schoolbus for a deer. I think it was in Maine.

[tacticalogic]

You get these (mostly urbanite) twits that think that just because they got a scope they can fire at anything vaguely four legged.

I know a conservation agent that was working a tag station during deer season, and witnessed one of these urbanite twits bring in, field dressed and tagged, some farmer's billy goat.

[nolaw0ady]

I guess they can take away that old stupid sumbitch's gun when they pry it from his cold dead hands. Right, NRA?