Thread: Not again!

Originally Posted by Pengy

Who is that one aimed at ?

Hopefully a deer.

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Originally Posted by Nathan F

The poor bastard was shot whilst having a breather on the track!!! beggars belief. RIP

I have a feeling that the fact the poor guy was on a tramping track at the time, may prove to be a game changer for all of us.

I see some people calling for a hunters test, here's my opinion on that, I have taken clients out in the UK who have past hunting tests in France , Germany and the UK DSC , some were dangerous , the Germans who have the strictest test, felt the need to shoot at moving targets, what they all had in common, was they didn't, hunt often.
I have hunted in the USA , where 15 experienced hunters with .22 rifles, were hunting squirrels in a 50 acre block and never felt safer.

Originally Posted by Taff

I see some people calling for a hunters test, here's my opinion on that, I have taken clients out in the UK who have past hunting tests in France , Germany and the UK DSC , some were dangerous , the Germans who have the strictest test, felt the need to shoot at moving targets, what they all had in common, was they didn't, hunt often.
I have hunted in the USA , where 15 experienced hunters with .22 rifles, were hunting squirrels in a 50 acre block and never felt safer.

Can you help me out here and connect the dots in your statement. What's your bottom line?

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Originally Posted by Pengy

I have a feeling that the fact the poor guy was on a tramping track at the time, may prove to be a game changer for all of us.

That's dead right. Unbelievable. My wife and I did a 16 km loop on Wednesday on doc land. Just a fitness walk but it makes you wonder. If there are guys out there who are prepared to pull the trigger on the track at an unidentified target ......

Scary

Originally Posted by Feral

I'm dead fricken scared of ever being on the receiving or the sending end of the equation.

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Me too bro, and that's a healthy way to be I think.

Originally Posted by Tommy

Me too bro, and that's a healthy way to be I think.

The crux is in the decision making process. For me, I am fearful enough of the consequences that I question myself before squeezing the trigger. Almost to the point of being over the top. "Looks like a deer... Why is it looking at me and not moving... It might not be a deer. Body, colour, neck, head... Why isnt it moving...look away, look back. That's its face, eyes are blinking, it's eating... Four legs. It's a deer...

Frankly I'd far rather be shot myself than live with the burden of shooting an innocent man; a fellow hunter.

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It's been spoken about on tramping forums

Shot when resting on DOC track | The campfire | Forums

Hate to say it but it is right up there with shooting the women in the head who was brushing her teeth with a headlamp on at a doc campground. Whilst illegally spotlighting.

I've seen a few tramping-oriented threads regarding this, and they all seem to follow the same anti-hunting-in-OUR-forests and lock-him-up-throw-away-the-key attitudes.

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Yeah and they probably have some valid points with this sort of crap going on. The tragedy aside it's just fucking embarrassing.

In the meantime we try to put up our own sign in the most prominent place we can - just a reminder should someone else be passing through that on that day there is someone else (us) somewhere "out there". Any reduction in a negative outcome however small the possibility has to be a good thing.

Originally Posted by Puffin

In the meantime we try to put up our own sign in the most prominent place we can - just a reminder should someone else be passing through that on that day there is someone else (us) somewhere "out there". Any reduction in a negative outcome however small the possibility has to be a good thing.

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Good little reminder alright @Puffin. Surely that has got to make the next hunter up the track sharpen up.

Originally Posted by Puffin

In the meantime we try to put up our own sign in the most prominent place we can - just a reminder should someone else be passing through that on that day there is someone else (us) somewhere "out there". Any reduction in a negative outcome however small the possibility has to be a good thing.

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Thats my favourite rest stop at that tree.

@Puffin, cannot read it, what does your sign say there mate?

HUNTING
IN THIS AREA TODAY

LOOKS LIKE A DEER ?
COULD BE US !

NOISE ?
MAYBE US !

BE SURE. SEE THE WHOLE ANIMAL


.... as a reminder right there at the start of a hunt confirming things that should otherwise be assumed, so anything along these lines would serve the purpose.
I have reservations about bush stalking though and the compatibility with the 'see the whole animal' clause will mean opportunities regularly have to be passed up if used to try to combat cognitive bias.