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From: HUDSON%EIVAX%UALR.BitNet@vms3.macc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Hunting "accidents"
Message-ID: <1991May17.071443.22809@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 12:14:43 GMT
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>.....number of hunters shot at....
>.....I always were red/orange.....
 
I wanted to comment on these.  As a hunter for the last 22 years,
mostly in Texas, lately in Missouri and now Arkansas, I have noticed
that there seems to be a difference in the perceived number of people
shot at during deer hunting.  I always hunted wearing camo, green,
etc... when out for deer, squirrel, rabbits, or whatever, in Texas.
The only time I had any problem was when hunting near Huntsville,
Texas in the national forest.  I was hidden in a clump of bushes on a
high-line and had been there since lunch time, when a van drives up on
the adjacent hill.  How these guys got that van through the timber I
don't know.  I don't think they did either, since they were drunk as
skunks at the time.  They got out of the van and got their cooler and
guns, got on top of the van and, I guess, had a deer hunting party?  I
crawled of down a ditch.  They probably would have shot me and asked
questions later.  Otherwise I hunted leased land and public land, and
really never heard of anyone getting shot.  Oh, once a guy shot
another fellow out of his tree stand, "thought he was a deer", the guy
was convicted.  Seems the jury felt he wanted to shoot the other
fellow, and a hunting accident was the best alibi.
 
In MO and AR, we are required to wear hunter orange.  I am told that
people get killed here hunting deer, and especially turkey.  I think
folks here may be a little less carefull when hunting??????
 
Deer Cleaning Tip: When you go deer hunting, take along a pair of the
surgical rubber gloves (cheap, disposable) and put them on before you
gut your kill.  I have been doing this for several years, and they
work great.  When your done you won't have to clean blood off of
everything you touch, like rifles, etc...
 
Keith Hudson
hudson%eivax@ualr.bitnet