Thread: Why do hunters continue to be accidentally shot?

Mike ,
I cannot believe that anybody or infact anything in this country is accidently shot [ except maybe when some dick puts a bullet through the roof or floor of his or his mate truck].
Everything I have ever shot at has been no accident. I have deliberately pulled the trigger.

People need to think about that, it is not an accident, it was done on purpose.

Forgive me if this has been over discussed already,

I would like to suggest a move away from the phrase Identify your target beyond all doubt.
The internal monolouge goes "is that a deer?, it looks like one, yep it's a deer/no it's not a deer."
The trouble is the whole time we're trying to confirm or exclude an underlying thought of deer. This leads us into a conifirmational bias - wether we think we know better and would never do that, or not.
A better question would be "is that a person, could it be a person, it could be a person/no way its a deer"
the confirmation bias then leads us to see more of reasons it could be a person.
It seems that the people involved in these tragedies did identify their target, but were unfortunately wrong.
Being wrong when thinking it's a person only leads to an escaped deer.

Only one part of a huge problem I realise, but it seems worthy of (thoughtful) discussion to me.

I brooded a bit on the deceased today as I went south and looked at the Ruahines. The sombre feeling was not dissipated when I came back.A family is no doubt grieving heavily at a loss at only 25 years.