That stinks. Nov. 26 to Dec. 8 - avoid woods or wear orange? I've never hunted - wanna try it. Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?
1 posted on
12/06/2007 5:45:01 AM PST by
jstassis
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
To: jstassis
Read headline and thought Duncan Hunter killed his dog!
2 posted on
12/06/2007 5:46:16 AM PST by
jdm
To: jstassis
“State Environmental Police?”
i’ve never heard of that department.
3 posted on
12/06/2007 5:46:33 AM PST by
robomatik
To: jstassis
Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer? No. Res ipsa loquitur.
4 posted on
12/06/2007 5:47:44 AM PST by
1rudeboy
To: jstassis
We have idiots here that shoot at blaze orange -”it must be a deer/bear/etc!”
We have idiots that could be one foot away and still shoot -”It must be a deer/bear/etc!”
And we have idiots who hunt within 500 yards of farms and residences, blasting farm animals and pets because, you guessed it, -”It must be a deer/bear/etc!”
Gives hunters a bad name, and makes some people want to hunt the L.L. Bean ‘hunters’ instead.
(L.L. Bean ‘hunter’: someone who buys their gear out of L.L. Bean and thinks that this makes them super uber elite hunters.)
7 posted on
12/06/2007 5:50:19 AM PST by
Darksheare
(Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
To: jstassis
I bet it was a stray shot. Once in Montana someone shot my red pickup by mistake.
8 posted on
12/06/2007 5:50:40 AM PST by
CholeraJoe
(Vote for Mike Huckabee or Chuck Norris will give you a wedgie!)
To: jstassis
Sounds like she was with the dog when it was shot so mistaking it for a deer wouldn’t be a viable excuse.
9 posted on
12/06/2007 5:51:06 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: jstassis
In many states, it is legal to shoot dogs running loose if they are suspected of chasing deer. This dog should have been on a leash, especially during winter when deer are at the mercy of the weather.
Dog packs will form up and run a deer to near death in deep snow but since they lack the killer instinct, they don’t know how to quickly dispatch the deer so it suffers for hours.
10 posted on
12/06/2007 5:51:30 AM PST by
HD1200
To: jstassis
I am an avid hunter. I never shoot unless I know what I am shooting at. That hunter gives all hunters a bad rap, also I am smart enough to know not to walk around in a national forest or state park during an open hunting season.
11 posted on
12/06/2007 5:52:03 AM PST by
JRP0322
To: jstassis
Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?
If there is any doubt, don't pull the trigger. This guy is a jackass, and efforts should be made to find this poacher.
12 posted on
12/06/2007 5:52:06 AM PST by
SoldierMedic
(Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
To: jstassis
Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?
if you can't tell the difference, you're too far away to be shooting at it.
13 posted on
12/06/2007 5:52:49 AM PST by
absolootezer0
(white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
To: jstassis
Is there a certain distance that someone can mistake a dog for a deer?Hunter safety rule: KNOW your target and what is beyond your target.
Aside from that, it is plain stupid to be out in the woods when the deer hunters are out there.
15 posted on
12/06/2007 5:52:58 AM PST by
elli1
To: jstassis
I live in the country. We have a goat farmer who loses goats almost every year. We’ve had local cows shot. And cement yard deer ornaments. I don’t hunt but know a hunter. He says the problem is hunters shoot without a clear view of what they’re shooting at. Sounds right to me.
16 posted on
12/06/2007 5:53:48 AM PST by
DJ MacWoW
(Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
To: jstassis
If this idiot shot a dog, because he thought it was a deer, then he needs to have his rights taken away. Because he is too dumb to be allowed to be free. Like the idiots who shot cattle and said they thought they were deer.
17 posted on
12/06/2007 5:54:05 AM PST by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: jstassis
I HATE DEER HUNTERS !
When I had a farm in Tennessee, I was always plagued by redneck lowlifes out of Memphis that would poach on my property.
There style is to shoot anything that moves and ask questions later.
18 posted on
12/06/2007 5:54:21 AM PST by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: jstassis
I’d suggest just avoiding the woods. Too many idiots with rifles out there - I won’t call them hunters because a real hunter knows what he’s shooting at, and doesn’t acidentally shoot cows, horses, dogs, etc.
19 posted on
12/06/2007 5:54:43 AM PST by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: jstassis
Well, we know it wasn’t Fred Thompson........
20 posted on
12/06/2007 5:55:52 AM PST by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: jstassis
Oh. So it's okay because he hit the dog and not the dog walker? Not by me it isn't. At least some places have a crime called reckless endangerment. I would see this guy spend at least six months in prison.
ML/NJ
22 posted on
12/06/2007 5:56:22 AM PST by
ml/nj
To: jstassis
Heartbreaking!
I love all dogs, especially labs.
We had an incident here a few years ago in which hunters were regularly trespassing and hunting on another family’s land despite the posted signs on almost every tree on the property border. To add insult to injury, one trespassing hunter shot and killed the family dog, a beautiful blonde lab, whenever it came to investigate the hunter at the edge of the woods and started barking.
26 posted on
12/06/2007 5:58:58 AM PST by
a real Sheila
(stop hillary NOW!)
To: jstassis
I avoid the woods *and* wear blaze orange. We usually have quite a few hunters in this area, although I haven't heard many gunshots this season. We have five acres, which is heavily wooded and when running our dogs near the back of the property, I put them in this:
There are acres and acres of open land behind us, which is posted, but the signs are ignored. I am pro-hunting, but careful.
28 posted on
12/06/2007 5:59:33 AM PST by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: jstassis
Why would Duncan Hunter do such a thing?
Oh, not that Hunter....
/ONLY KIDDING
31 posted on
12/06/2007 6:01:54 AM PST by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson