10-19-2010, 05:35 AM
This guy happens to be my friend and almost family (long story). Pray for him as he is not in the clear yet. He has a lot of internal damage. I won't go into details for his privacy.
Anyway like I said, he needs our prayers.
Belasko is correct when he said, that two of the main rules for safe hunting were not followed. From what I have been told my friend was hunting the river bottoms from his tree stand. He was heading back to his truck and not wearing orange when he was shot by another hunter who obviously did not clarify his target before pulling the trigger.
The thing that made me mad when watching the news was that they made a huge deal about wearing orange, but didn't say a thing about being sure of your target and background before aiming and pulling the trigger.
I guess the moral of this story is follow the rules that we all know and learned in hunters ed.
Be safe out there.
Windriver
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Anyway like I said, he needs our prayers.
Belasko is correct when he said, that two of the main rules for safe hunting were not followed. From what I have been told my friend was hunting the river bottoms from his tree stand. He was heading back to his truck and not wearing orange when he was shot by another hunter who obviously did not clarify his target before pulling the trigger.
The thing that made me mad when watching the news was that they made a huge deal about wearing orange, but didn't say a thing about being sure of your target and background before aiming and pulling the trigger.
I guess the moral of this story is follow the rules that we all know and learned in hunters ed.
Be safe out there.
Windriver
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