Some hometown friends of mine prefer to chase pigs with dogs, Polaris Rangers, shotguns, and lever action rifles. They do consistently kill quite a few pigs in this manner.
Well, evidently last weekend a shooter from one ranger shot at a group of pigs with a shotgun, and a buck shot pellet nailed a guy in the back of the head in the opposite Ranger......... The guy that got shot lived and evidently had a very quick recovery. In my opinion, they were EXTREMELY lucky.
Now here is where it gets interesting. They are joking about it and making Dick Cheney jokes about the shooter, and the shooter is just laughing and going along with it! They evidently are convinced that this was a freak accident that it happened in the first place, and the odds of it happening again are slim to none......I'm under the impression they will just go back to hunting like nothing happened......
If that happened in my hunting party, I would still be throwing up! Especially if I was the shooter! I'm curious what the landowners think about this??? And I've seen these guys make fun of guys hunting with expensive thermal and NV equipment (like how I normally hunt now). At least with my spotting and stalking method in the dark, no one has come close to being shot. Shoot we take extra time just to verify there are no livestock or deer in the bullet path.
Just curious what everyone's thought on this is about what happened and how they are reacting. Happy SAFE hunting to anybody that is going this weekend. I finally get to hunt by the Red River some and am anticipating some greater than normal results!
Well, evidently last weekend a shooter from one ranger shot at a group of pigs with a shotgun, and a buck shot pellet nailed a guy in the back of the head in the opposite Ranger......... The guy that got shot lived and evidently had a very quick recovery. In my opinion, they were EXTREMELY lucky.
Now here is where it gets interesting. They are joking about it and making Dick Cheney jokes about the shooter, and the shooter is just laughing and going along with it! They evidently are convinced that this was a freak accident that it happened in the first place, and the odds of it happening again are slim to none......I'm under the impression they will just go back to hunting like nothing happened......
If that happened in my hunting party, I would still be throwing up! Especially if I was the shooter! I'm curious what the landowners think about this??? And I've seen these guys make fun of guys hunting with expensive thermal and NV equipment (like how I normally hunt now). At least with my spotting and stalking method in the dark, no one has come close to being shot. Shoot we take extra time just to verify there are no livestock or deer in the bullet path.
Just curious what everyone's thought on this is about what happened and how they are reacting. Happy SAFE hunting to anybody that is going this weekend. I finally get to hunt by the Red River some and am anticipating some greater than normal results!