What would you do??

[Scott]

As Texasrack said, i would have my .40 with me also. I dont leave home without it and NEVER hunt without having it in my possesion. Even on private property you will encounter tresspassers from time to time.

I think you handled it as well as could be done but i dont know if i could have been so nice to just leave. I am easy going and get along with everyone but i have ZERO tolerence for scumbags that break the law in any fashion especially game laws, and especially the idiots that aim their weapons at me.


BTW, good thing he had a "TM HUNTER" style arrow rest or you may not have heard it at all.

[Bukmastr]

BTW, good thing he had a "TM HUNTER" style arrow rest or you may not have heard it at all.

Thats what I have also... Must be what subconsiosly alerted me quick enough to respond. I can't imagine sitting in a tree shooting at shadows that "could" be a deer. Heck, its to easy to wound them in daylight.

[mrjbigfoot]

We had some older guy, down here in Ohio, shoot a horse with an x-bow, 2 years ago, and the wild part was that a girl was riding the horse through the woods in the early morning pre-dawn light. Man, if there's not enough light to tell the difference between a deer & a girl riding a horse... that's pretty friggin sad...

[loserchumpandfool]

due to a tresspassing problem on my friends land we have the CO,s cell number.he has already wrote these jerks numerous citations.he said dont confront them for they are very confrontational.you did the right thing by not confronting him.

[Bukmastr]

mrjbigfoot said:

We had some older guy, down here in Ohio, shoot a horse with an x-bow, 2 years ago, and the wild part was that a girl was riding the horse through the woods in the early morning pre-dawn light. Man, if there's not enough light to tell the difference between a deer & a girl riding a horse... that's pretty friggin sad...

Wow.. We had a very, very simalar experiance here in S.E. Wisc. about 7 years ago when a horse was shot out from underneith a a female rider at about 9PM as she rode on her own posted property, that animal was shot with a 30-30 fifle in a shotgun zone.
Now this year the DNR has lifted all restrictions on shooting deer here. There will be no limet and no size restrictions. They even opened rifles in some shotgun zones that were deamed shotgun zones for safety reasons and took the 1 week gun season and extended it to a month and 1/2. There insane plan will likly result in a few people getting shot.... I hope me and my boys are not the ones getting shot.

[mrjbigfoot]

Yea, that's pretty friggin sad... I guess the whole CWD thing has them coming pretty unglued about how to handle it... I hope we stay clean down here in Ohio but I figure it's probably only a matter of time. Our DNR has been doing mass testing based on samples taken at check in stations during our gun seasons for the last few years & so far we're ok. I can honestly say that I've never even aimed at anything that I wasn't sure it was a deer in the 1st place. I read a lot about that terrible shooting you guys had last year & how the poor hmong population goes out & poaches on a regular basis, I'm sure that adds complcations for folks livestock & horses to... If they'll go out & poach deer, what's to keep them from taking cows etc... It's a sad state of affairs.

[midrivers]

CWD is a big concern here in MO as well. WE have very dense populations of derinthe urban area. So much so that urban gun hunts have been set up for four major cities aorund the state. Doe only 2nd weekend in October. I really think one can intend to hunt safely in an urban area, but once you touch that trigger, it is out of your control. A bad ricochet can potentially endanger alot of people. An unsafe hunter really has a good chnace of hurting someone.

So far as the hmong population goes, I hope they do not acquire a taste for beef. What the rules for fair chase harvest on cattle?

[mrjbigfoot]

Hey MI, actually I think they prefer the taste of wild game animals to standard beef cattle. I donated some venison to a cambodian family one time & the wife, who could hardly speak any english, immediately wanted to know if we hunted monkeys to... it was a pretty good laugh. On the more serious side of things, they also have some strange witch doctor type medicine... I had a cambodian man, that lived in my neighborhood, ask me if I ever shot the deer when the velvet was on their antlers... I said no & obviously asked why... he proceeded to give me an explanation of how the velvet is considered like viagra, where he came from.... so, should we worry about folks poaching bucks in velvet for medicinal/viagra purposes... I guess it's just like all the legends about bear & tiger paws, gall bladders etc...

[midrivers]

Wow, hope the word doesnt spread on that one. Every middle age man in America with erectile disfuction problems will be out in the farm country at night with spotlights shooting at 'eyes"

[bbbh]

Its a sad thing when poachers just don't care and then get affended when they get caught. A few examples of things I have seen in the past few years.

In KY a man was found dead in his car shoot through the eye with a high powered rifle. A man turned himself in and said he was spot lighting and tht he thought the guy sitting in his car was a deer!

Morgan county Ohio at the local sporting good store they had a pic hanging up of a man sitting in the back of an ambulance with an arrow sticking out of the back of his head. He was a bow hunter leaving the woods after a MORNING hunt when he was shot in the back of the head!! As far as I know, no one has ever been prosacuted for this.