Another shot bear

[mikedatiger]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

I just hope this was an honest mistake where the guy mistook it for a pig and not just a purposeful killing. Both of those areas have pigs so maybe it was an honest mistake, I doubt it but maybe

The incident where the LSU professor was on Red River and shot a mother and a cub was an honest mistake and the guy owned up to it, and that was quite a hefty fine. That took a LOT of integrity right there

Don't see how shooting a bear, AND a cub, is a mistake. If you can't tell the difference between a pig and a bear then you have no business in the woods with a gun in your hands. One of the top rules of hunter safety is target identification - looks like the professor needs to go back to school

On another note, turning himself in was the admirable thing to do.

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Don't see how shooting a bear, AND a cub, is a mistake. If you can't tell the difference between a pig and a bear then you have no business in the woods with a gun in your hands. One of the top rules of hunter safety is target identification - looks like the professor needs to go back to school

On another note, turning himself in was the admirable thing to do.

X2!!!!

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Don't see how shooting a bear, AND a cub, is a mistake. If you can't tell the difference between a pig and a bear then you have no business in the woods with a gun in your hands. One of the top rules of hunter safety is target identification - looks like the professor needs to go back to school

On another note, turning himself in was the admirable thing to do.

First let me say that you are right about target identification. But I could see how the mistake could be made. You've been hunting out there your whole life. You've never seen a bear. You always see hogs. It's very thick out there and you never have a clear shot. He saw the black animals and his mind automatically says hog. So, I can see how the mistake was made. But again, he broke a major safety rule and that is target ID. He paid dearly for it with his pocket book. Part of sentence was to tell his story of misidentification to the students at hunter safety courses. He ended up enjoying that experience so much he became a hunter safety instructor himself.

[Duck Butter]

I agree with both, but I do see how it could happen. I know a biologist that works around bears all the time. He was hunting for hogs, had a .22 and got on a group of hogs. He was on the ground in tall palmettos. He shot a black pig and piglet, the others ran off. He sat and a couple minutes later the palmettos were moving and all he could see was black hair above the palmettos moving and black hair in between the palmettos, safety is off ready to go, adrenaline pumping, etc. Turned out to be a bear, and was very close to being a shot bear. That is a bit of a rare occurence but they happen.
This is another reason we have a little more strict pig regulations is because of bears.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

First let me say that you are right about target identification. But I could see how the mistake could be made. You've been hunting out there your whole life. You've never seen a bear. You always see hogs. It's very thick out there and you never have a clear shot. He saw the black animals and his mind automatically says hog. So, I can see how the mistake was made. But again, he broke a major safety rule and that is target ID. He paid dearly for it with his pocket book. Part of sentence was to tell his story of misidentification to the students at hunter safety courses. He ended up enjoying that experience so much he became a hunter safety instructor himself.

Good story

Maybe the kids who shot the whooping cranes last year will do the same or at least learn from their mistakes

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Originally Posted by duck butter

good story

maybe the kids who shot the whooping cranes last year will do the same or at least learn from their mistakes

we could only hope, but sometimes you can't fix stupid.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by DUCKGOGETTER

we could only hope, but sometimes you can't fix stupid.

I'd bet that after their folks got done paying for those cranes, that their stupidity got fixed!

[Spunt Drag]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

I'd bet that after their folks got done paying for those cranes, that their stupidity got fixed!

I wish they woulda shot every last one of them whooping cranes. Biggest waste of tax dollars next to food stamps.