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Topic: A sobering reminder
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted August 02, 2008 08:30 PM
I apologize for cross posting this subject, but it is important enough for us to spend some time thinking about.
Look to the middle of the page at this link and watch the video.
http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/Other-Services/Education/Hunter
This was a tragic event that happened here in Kansas this past year, and which should serve as a sobering reminder to each of us that tragedies take only a momentary lapse of judgment, but can result in a lifetime of pain and regret.
Members of the Kansas hunting community are trying to disseminate this video to as many boards as we can so that others can hopefully reaffirm what they know to be the responsible and ethical way to hunt.
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Randy Roede
"It's Roede, like in Yotie
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posted August 03, 2008 06:39 AM
Well worth the cross post lance!!
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Krustyklimber
prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee
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posted August 03, 2008 07:01 AM
Lance,
For those who aren't able to download and watch the video... what the heck are you talking about?
Krusty 
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newbomb
Knows what it's all about
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posted August 03, 2008 07:32 AM
Krusty, its a short video about hunters safety and the story of the young man who was shot last year by a road "hunter" while goose hunting.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted August 03, 2008 08:16 AM
What Bomb said, K. Last December, a young college student here in Kansas was on an early birthday hunt, three days before his birthday, with two friends. They had a spread of Canada deeks out on a cut cornfield in SE Kansas and were hidden in reclining blinds. A pickup came down the road and the driver shot from the truck with a centerfire rifle at what he claimed to be a coyote. The shot struck and killed the young man and one of his buddies had to do CPR out there in that muddy field until EMS arrived. The Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks produced a 6-minute video about this incident, entitled "Tragedy at Wright's Creek" where the head of our Hunter Education and Law Enforcement divisions specifically noted the many and various violations of safe hunting that were committed. As a tribute to the young man, and in an effort to hopefully find some benefit from this tragedy, a lot of Kansas sportsmen are posting that link on boards across the internet as a reminder to hunters that you can never be too careful.
All too often, otherwise sensible people lose all common sense and good judgment as they join in the supposed war on coyotes by shooting from the road when they do not know for sure what lies beyond their target.
The man that took the shot, in this incident,. was arrested, charged and convicted of involuntary manslaughter, along with numerous other wildlife related violations. I, like most of you, cringe at the references to him as a hunter in the media, when in fact, he was a poacher trying to shoot a goose with an illegal firearm.
[ August 03, 2008, 08:17 AM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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Krustyklimber
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posted August 03, 2008 02:21 PM
We had a young boy, fatally shoot a hiker yesterday ("mistaking" her for a bear), miles from a road, so it's not just road hunters whom we have to fear.
Isn't one of the basic rules, "always, identify your target"?
Personally, I hope to never shoot at something I think is a target.
Krusty
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Southern Minneesota Know it all
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posted August 03, 2008 03:05 PM
Some hunters can't even trust there own fathers.. Had a father and son hunting this spring for turkeys.. Father mistook son for a turkey and shot him..
"always, identify your target"?
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