Sadly this happens way too often and is often tragic.
Sadly this happens way too often and is often tragic.
If I hear a 'sound' in the middle of the nite in my house, it will get 'shot'. I did do a sound shot high in a tree line with a 12 ga - no, no dove around that day. Pack up and go home. And I knew where the other guys were.
Whatever!
Couple years ago, I'd gone through a gate where I had permission, and set up to shoot ground squirrels with my Hawkin rifle. I was having a great time, taking a shot every five or ten minutes, and with a pretty high kill rate.
All the sudden a bunch of shooting erupted behind my position, with bullets flying all around me. I realized that I was out of sight from a rig on the road where someone had stopped to shoot (from the road) in exactly my direction. I fired a "sound shot" well above their heads, to let them know where I was. I heard doors slam, and the vehicle take off down the road. It all scared the crap out of me. jd
Typical of city people coming upstate. Cows make pretty good deer too. Those get painted orange. Do you think it helps?
I had the same experience. Found a hunter that "had permission" trying to climb over my barbed wire fence. He wasn't very happy when I sent him back through the swamp he came from. At least he didn't shoot one of my Angus. Might have been interesting if he found the bull's pasture.
I've heard people say they "took a sound shot". They should be beaten to a pulp.
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Hey Mary B I'm glad you got that guy. Here in Georgia we call them Slob Hunters or White Trash.
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Back in the '80's my dad and my uncles told me about deer hunting in the late '60's early '70's.
They were on a ridge they had permission to be on waiting. One of them moved and it turned into a war zone. They yelled for a while before the other group ran off. Idiots are everywhere.
Seems the title resonates within the hunting community and for no good reason. Sorry 10-x. The rest of us have had our fill of "poor decisions" from folks taking "sound shots" at noise rather than visual confirmations.
My maternal grandfather saved my "tender aged" skin of 13 as we walked a cow track together through his overgrown field. A poacher shot at, and fortunately just ahead of us, undoubtedly due to "movement and sound", as we passed through.
At the shot Granddad shoved us both to the ground. The shotgun pellets had already sprayed through, above and just ahead. Neither of us was hit. Granddad was MAD then. Scary MAD. He could not locate the poacher and I am quite certain that was best for the poacher. I don't know but suspect that Granddad would have hurt that man.
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
I used to own 100 acres north of me. It was not posted. But walked in on opening day of gun deer season. I heard two shotgun blasts ... waited until the feller walked out. Asked if he got it. He said no, that he’d just made two sound shots. Told my neighbor about it who owned 250 acres butted up against my place. By dark that afternoon we had marked off his place and mine with “poacher paint”. That was the end of that.
Upon reflection I think that deer are probably about the only mammals safe from sound shots. I have deer hunted for 50 years or more, and I cannot recall ever actually hearing a deer going through the woods ... everything else is at risk: hunters, dogs, cattle, armadillos, but deer are probably safe.
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I have heard deer hunters in ILL-nois talk about "taking sound shots". My first time to hear that remark I said "You do what !"
How many hunters yearly get killed because some fool has done such .....
If you read this and have done so please stop !
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I have been a victim of this in upstate NY. I yelled loud and fired my rifle into the base of a tree. I was UNHURT but probably needed new drawers... As I got up I could hear the bugger running away... I have herd this speak in diners and gun shops. I always asked wherr thry hunted cause I wanted to be mountains away!
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I too could relate a few stories.
However,, I also teach Hunter Safety.
I STRESS to all new potential hunters the STUPIDITY, of such activities. I use all kinds of names for the types of people who do such stuff. I tell my classes; "A person like that would be the same type of person in the movie "Deliverance". Or, simple terms like; "Idiot, Stupid, Unethical, Moron, Poacher, In-bred, Coward," or any other derogatorily statement I can come up with.
I also stress that I'm a firearm instructor, and point out the (4) gun safety rules all over again.
Lastly, I use reports I get from the State about the previous accidents where someone was SHOT by another person to stress the point of NOT "sound shooting." And I often follow up with the CRIMINAL reports of some cases.
Hopefully, I make a difference.
When I was a child, 60 or 70 years ago, I heard the "old timers" talk about the folly and danger of "sound" shots. It was more prevalent then because most deer hunting was done with shotgun (no once could afford a rifle) ahead of dogs running them.
One of my dad's buddies still does this on a regular basis each fall. He's also the guy that aims for the white spot on the neck of whitetails for a "one shot kill" despite the fact that he has admittedly shot the jaw/muzzle off at least two deer that he was unable to recover.
When I used to teach hunter's safety, I was usually the guy who got to teach the hunting ethics section. I had a dad argue with me and storm out of the class with his two kids when I stated, in extremely clear terms, that they were NEVER to take exactly this kind of shot as it violates one of the fundamental rules of firearm safety and is one of the most unethical things you can do while hunting. He claimed that it must be safe because his grandad got the biggest buck he's ever seen doing that and proceeded to rant about our qualifications as instructors and the quality of the program in general! He had to be escorted out and his kids were not able to finish the course for that year.
Our conclusion as instructors was that hopefully their dad's embarrassing public meltdown was enough to prevent another couple of hunters from coming up with this unsafe practice.
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