Thread: Another shooting

Seems some a quick to pass judgement with out having all the facts ,as pop shot said it may have been an Accident.

Wonder if there is anyone on this forum who has never had an accident ?

Originally Posted by Chris

Wonder if there is anyone on this forum who has never had an accident ?

I was a t a NZDA branch committee meeting last night. We had quite a discussion on the recent incidents. One thing we all agreed on was most people that end up making a horrible mistake all believed beforehand that it would never happen to them… I am guilty of this myself, I mean I think I would never be stupid enough to mistake a human for a deer. Most of those people that have done it though swear black and blue that they were shooting at a deer – signals in their brain though…

We discussed a mindset in a lot of NZ hunters… it shouldn’t be “it moved therefore it is a deer” it should be “it moved therefore it is a human until I can prove it’s a deer”. Someone mentioned that to get a firearm license should mean you have to join a hunting club… we thought this wouldn’t be very useful cause our own club wasn’t doing much to promote hunter safety within the branch. That is going to change though, just before the roar we are going to get the club together and discuss firearm safety and a few close calls we have all been through. Try and get it to the front of our members minds.

Originally Posted by Chris

Seems some a quick to pass judgement with out having all the facts ,as pop shot said it may have been an Accident.

Wonder if there is anyone on this forum who has never had an accident ?

I've never shot anyone. Nor had an AD, ever.

When there's an accident, you look at all the contributing factors that lead up to the event. Accidents by themselves are very, very rare. They're generally a combination of poor judgement, wrong decision making, wrong expectations on behaviour.

* Mears
* Dummer
* Worsp

were not accidents.

It's always going to be a provocative topic to discuss though.

I agree with you, sadly I new Cam McDonald and his hunting partner on that day!!. Dodzy was a very close friend also so two deaths that should not have happened have knocked me around a bit and now influence when and how I hunt.I have spoken to H Worsp he is aware of how I Feel. Incidents such as these should not be called accidents.