On 5/23/2016 6:33 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 13:44:49 -0500, "Ryan P."
wrote:

There is an average of less than one hundred cases per year across the
entire nation of hunting-related shootings of people. That's
intentional AND accidental incidents.

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That's a much smaller number than I would have guessed. An old high
school classmate of mine was killed in a hunting crossfire incident
back in the '60s or '70s.

Actually, I was a little surprised at the number myself when I heard
it during a Wisconsin DNR presentation on changes in some of the rules.
(It used to be that just leaning a loaded rifle against your truck
while you eat a sandwich on your tailgate could get you a citation for
transporting a loaded weapon...)

I know there are exceptions to the rule, but every hunter I've gone
out with has always been hyper-sensitive to where everyone else is. I
don't have a specific number to quote, but I would imagine that a lot of
the accidental shootings are caused by people not realizing how far a
shotgun slug or a rifle bullet can actually go.

On Tue, 24 May 2016 08:36:20 -0500, "Ryan P."
wrote:

I know there are exceptions to the rule, but every hunter I've gone
out with has always been hyper-sensitive to where everyone else is.

That was the way I was raised. Each hunter in a group will be in a
specified space and have a specified area of fire. We were always to
poor to hunt over dogs so when we worked a field each guy would be
behind the next guy's "weak" side. It is pretty hard for a right
handed shooter to shoot something off of his right shoulder. (station
6 low house is usually the hardest skeet shot if you line up for the
double) That is why I wondered exactly how Cheney shot that guy he was
hunting with.
Somebody was out of position and the way I heard it, the guy was the
one who got shot.

Ryan P. wrote:
On 5/23/2016 6:33 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 13:44:49 -0500, "Ryan P."
wrote:

There is an average of less than one hundred cases per year across the
entire nation of hunting-related shootings of people. That's
intentional AND accidental incidents.

===

That's a much smaller number than I would have guessed. An old high
school classmate of mine was killed in a hunting crossfire incident
back in the '60s or '70s.

Actually, I was a little surprised at the number myself when I heard
it during a Wisconsin DNR presentation on changes in some of the rules.
(It used to be that just leaning a loaded rifle against your truck
while you eat a sandwich on your tailgate could get you a citation for
transporting a loaded weapon...)

I know there are exceptions to the rule, but every hunter I've gone
out with has always been hyper-sensitive to where everyone else is. I
don't have a specific number to quote, but I would imagine that a lot of
the accidental shootings are caused by people not realizing how far a
shotgun slug or a rifle bullet can actually go.


I think most shotgun hunting accidents are more a hunter not paying
attention to the line of hunters on a drive. Years ago, a hunter in our
group nearly got shot on a pheasant drive. He dropped 10 yards back of the
line.