Thread: Not again!

It is a tragedy people, but if there are more hunters, just as when there are high traffic volumes, there is more likelihood of a serious human or mechanical error. The old adages, "No meat is better than no mate" and "Identify your target beyond all doubt" have been around for years and years. The issues of human error, carelessness, panic and hallucination need to be drummed into all firearms owners, and hunters heads. This is done remorselessly in magazines, hunter training courses, gun clubs, etc, but people do forget discipline at critical times, especially under stress / excitement / fatigue and related moods. I really don't know what else can be done except perhaps to ensure the reminders are placed in front of most hunters at entry points. Such points would be at helipads, sports shops, ranges, road entrances to hunting grounds and possibly even on billboards on highways so that the reminders are always visible, and more so in proximity to hunting ground access points. Such signs could be large and obvious, and funding could be shared by several groups including government, police, hunting associations , sports retailers and wholesalers, and especially hunting access services such as aircraft and boat operators. Perhaps a levy to partially finance these reminder signposts and billboards could be applied to every firearms sold by shops or trademe. Marketing relies up[on repeated and repeated and follow up after follow up of advertising in order to be effective; and it may just be that the hunting safety issue is lacking in these necessary constant and prominent advertising reminders.
My 2 cents worth

Originally Posted by Woody

It is a tragedy people, but if there are more hunters, just as when there are high traffic volumes, there is more likelihood of a serious human or mechanical error. The old adages, "No meat is better than no mate" and "Identify your target beyond all doubt" have been around for years and years. The issues of human error, carelessness, panic and hallucination need to be drummed into all firearms owners, and hunters heads. This is done remorselessly in magazines, hunter training courses, gun clubs, etc, but people do forget discipline at critical times, especially under stress / excitement / fatigue and related moods. I really don't know what else can be done except perhaps to ensure the reminders are placed in front of most hunters at entry points. Such points would be at helipads, sports shops, ranges, road entrances to hunting grounds and possibly even on billboards on highways so that the reminders are always visible, and more so in proximity to hunting ground access points. Such signs could be large and obvious, and funding could be shared by several groups including government, police, hunting associations , sports retailers and wholesalers, and especially hunting access services such as aircraft and boat operators. Perhaps a levy to partially finance these reminder signposts and billboards could be applied to every firearms sold by shops or trademe. Marketing relies up[on repeated and repeated and follow up after follow up of advertising in order to be effective; and it may just be that the hunting safety issue is lacking in these necessary constant and prominent advertising reminders.
My 2 cents worth

Woody I think that you hit the nail on the head here.
In relation to the stress of the situation.
Also could put those signs up in huts as well.
Not sure if you said that.

For the rest of us. Just think of having to tell someone's family that YOU have just taken there loved one from them because you did not identify you target or firing zone. Put your self in those shoes before you pick up a gun every time!