Another shot bear

[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.