Hunter Dies in Opening Weekend Accident

If you wish to be preyed upon by men got to Iraq or somewhere where they dislike Americans. Hunters and fishermen pay more into wildlife and nature preservation than any other group. Accidents happen in all walks of life. If you were a Christian, had Bible knowledge, you would know that God created animals to reproduce and provide mankind with food and clothing.

Although, I do feel sorry for your friend, I also feel very sorry for the animals that are hunted. What your friend felt (being shot) is what these animals feel. I understand if people are doing this to provide food for their family when needed, but to kill for the sport of it is just wrong. Those animals have no guns, they are defenseless. I am an animal rehabilatator. I take in injured wildlife and provide for them out of my own pocket until they are well enough to be released, and what I see is just horrible.

Very sorry people die hunting but we have to put up with hunters cutting our fences, running our cattle and horses off our land and into the national forest. Camping without permission on our land and shooting dogs, cows, and one poor neighbor lady who was hanging up her wash. All the ranches around us have stopped letting hunters on their land for just these reasons. If the fools can not tell a dog or cow, or human from a deer then they do not need to be in the forest hunting.

In the case where the weapon is a muzzle loader, the only way is to shoot the gun every time you move by vehicle or remove the 209 firing primer. I personally remove the primer and leave the powder and bullet in the gun until the end of the day then I remove the powder and bullet. Either by shooting it or removing it with the ram rod.

Let me say first off that I am not a hunter and don't think I could ever be one. I worked at an animal hospital for 4 years and developed a real love for animals, so the thought of going out with the expressed purpose of shooting them never appealed to me.

However, with that being said I would never condemn hunters as a group just because I don't choose to participate. I know quite a few hunters and they are very responsible people. They have a tremendous respect for nature and also for the animals they kill. They don't kill without harvesting the animal and using it to supplement their families' food supply.

A responsible hunter doesn't get trashed before he handles a gun and he obeys all safety rules to ensure not only his safety, but also the safety of other hunters in the area.

So....don't judge hunters because of a small group of irresponsible idiots and don't judge hunters because they kill animals. If they didn't shoot what they eat, they would buy the remains of slaughtered, penned-up, captive animals at the supermarket.....at least the animals hunters eat had a taste of freedom before they were killed.

That's not the case for that original owner of that rib eye steak you bought at Winn Dixie or Stop and Shop or that Quarter Pounder you scarfed down at McDonald's.

invariably when the subject of hunting and hunting accidents comes up, there will be those who say hunting should be abolished. how can anyone be so cruel to animals? well guess what? hunting is to murder, as buying beef/pork/chicken from your local grocer is to murder for hire. those meat eaters who look down on hunters need to get over yourself. y'all pay to have yours killed.

If everyone would just put their loaded guns down, no one would have to die -- not even the beautiful Rocking Chair buck, who deserves to live his life in the forest rather than meeting an untimely demise in the prime of his life and ending up with his head fastened to someone's wall. It's freakish! Humankind needs to march forward out of the dim, primitive, Neanderthal past, and into a loving, all-inclusive, more advanced consciousness.

Wow, just three comments in and I ran into the tired old "hunting is an unfair sport" adage - get off it! Cavemen used sharp, pointy objects - if hunters starting running through the woods with knives and slitting the throats if their prey you and every other moron who uses this argument would be horrified and screaming that it's barbaric! Get off it already!

10-23-2008 @ 1:22PM
m t said...
Maybe they should leave nature alone and stop shooting and then no one will get hurt??? It's not a sport when you have a gun and your prey has nothing now is it??? You want to hunt like your a cave man then do it the way they would have and make the playing field fair.
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Tell me, you're a committed vegetarian, and I'll try to reconsider listening to your story. Those burgers at Burger King, McAlisters, and Mickey Dees, don't come out of a box. Some critter grew those ribs, and pork chops. Kentucky Fried and Chick Fil-A don't grow those wings, and breasts, in a garden, someone has to kill them. I'd love to see you, facing your live, potential meal, on a "fair and equal basis." That would probably amount to a 60 pound black bear. Anything larger, or more dangerous, you'd be overmatched, and you'd wind up, being supper.

If you did not have hunters in the woods we would be over run with wildlife I dont know if you relize how many people get killed every year by wildlife but you would probaly change your attitude if it was your child or wife or family member that it happened to maybe you would look at it differently,
but the fact is the way the world is looking you better learn how to survive or you might be needing one of these hunters on your side

wow you must be one of those peta morons.im not a fan of hunting an animal if your not going to eat it.we hunt because its food for our table.we eat what we kill.if you had any brains you would see that in most places deer are overpopulated.so i guess you would prefer the animals to starve to death and rot away instead of being shot(quick kill) and used to feed a family.i guess you would prefer to have a person hit them with a car (which is what happens when the deer are overpopulated) which can cause harm to not only the animal but the people behind the wheel.maybe if fathers and grandfathers would take their children hunting and spend that quality time with them the youth of america wouldnt be totally screwed up.i would rather eat a deer then eat a cow that is pumped with steroids and god knows what else.at least there is no recalls on the venison i feed my kids!

we're at the top of the food chain for a reason...
i know hunting can be sad, but look at all the dogs killing cats and cats killing mice etc. they do the same thing we do, we just use our advanced brains to make weapons
plus, the guns usually make a faster, less painful death.

To m t Do you know which animal in the U.S.A. kills most humans, causes the most damage, and if not controlled, starve in the winter? It's Bambi and his relatives. Deer are a wild animal. Their senses are many times greater than humans'. If their numbers weren't controlled, the whole herd would die off due to starvation and diseases. Would you rather hit a deer with your car and injure your family, or wished some hunter would have harvester the deer? Maybe your family member was killed in the accident. (Caused by overpopulation of deer). How would you feel? People pays big companies to kill animals for them. And the animals die a more horrible death than any I've taken. Breed cattle, raise the calf feed the calf, everytime the calf sees you, he comes running to get something to eat. no fear of humans. Then one day, he runs to the wrong person at the slaughter house. Beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish,. Tell me that they are humanely killed. If you eat anything but plants, you are a hippocrit, and you pay people to kill the animals for you. Venison has no fat in it. How much fat does your steak, hamburger, hotdog, or anything else you pay someone else to kill for you have. You buy your turkey, that you paid someone to kill for you, for Thanksgiving, with all the growth chemicals in it. I'll harvest mine in the harvest forest. I pay to help the wildlife through my license fees. How much do you pay to feed the animals in the winter, or to fight disease in the wildlife? You live your life, I'll live mine.

Ok Mt.

Fair enough.

You can go to Africa, and hunt maneaters, where even with
a rifle you sometimes have a 50/50 chance of making it out
alive, ie, the Leopard; you have one shot, if you miss you
die a horrible death. That's fair; right?

Refer: Death in the Long Grass, by Peter Capstick.

Denis Berte

Man hunted for food, not because it was something to do. I'm not against eating meat but I am against killing animals for no reason other than to stroke some hunters ego ego which is one of the main reasons people hunt. How is it a sport to put on some camouflage, hide in some bushes and wait quietly for some poor unsuspecting animal to come along so you can ambush it? That's the same thing as if you were walking out to your car and someone jumped out and shot you when you weren't looking. Not so impressive is it?

AMEN....Maybe all those who so strongly oppose hunting should provide a home for the over-population of wildlife & clean up the abundance of "roadkill" there would be if not for those of us who legaly & morally "thin the herd"!

Exactly how many hunters do you know, Shay? Every hunter I have ever met would hunt for more than just their ego. I would always go out to hunt with the intention of bringing home food, not a trophy, and certainly not an ego trip. The only time I never ate what I hunted, was went the meat spoiled. So maybe you should try to not generalize on something you don’t have experience or knowledge about!