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Lesson Learned on Todays Hike

It's a crying shame. We never had any of that horsechit when I was a kid.
Of course we had rifle and archery training in Jr high school and the cops would come with pistols to show all the kids how to check if it is loaded etc.
Coach used to have a warden come in every year and talk safety before season opened.
This was boys AND girls.:thumbup::)

Everyone I knew was a boy scout or girl scout at some point.
Now kids are, for the most part, nothing more than fat little oxygen thieves playing violent video games and they are the ones that will be in the woods soon !:eek:
Hopefully they choose videos over the woods. Keep it nice and quiet for us old farts.

Even the Appalachian trail crowd has changed. Now its a sporting event/race/mountain marathon. Heck. I did springer to Hanging Rock Va. with an 8 inch Griswold skillet in my pack ! LOL
Back in the day it was living like Daniel Boone for a bit. Fishing, shooting squirrels, jugging for turtles or cats at night, picking blackberries etc.

It's still like that on the trails here....actually there aren't hardly any marked trails.You blaze and they're covered in a week. River paths would be more accurate.
I can spend a week in the woods without seeing any human or even signs of humans.

Well. The clouds are lifting. Time to go catch some guapote.....or tilapia.
Pura Vida !
 
I got my bright orange attire from Goodwill, my dog wears his colors too. Just bought a new pack in "don't shoot me orange". All this just to walk on our own property which is posted.



The incident below happened a few years ago. :thumbdn: Sometimes the dairy cows get shot here too. :confused:

A teenager was charged with manslaughter Monday for fatally shooting a farmer who was sitting inside his tractor cab.

18-year-old Collin Viens of St. Albans and his lawyer declined comment as they arrived at the St. Albans District Courthouse.

Viens was there to be charged with manslaughter for allegedly gunning down a farmer who was sitting inside the cab of his tractor.

"Not knowing that Mr. Lussier was in the tractor is conduct that is very reckless and supports the charge," said Jim Hughes, Franklin County State's Attorney.

Rejean Lussier,60, was killed in a farm field at dusk on Thanksgiving eve by a rifle shot to the chest as he sat inside the cab of a tractor.

The next day Collin Viens told police he had been hunting in the area with three friends -- and he suspected he fired the fatal shot. The caliber of the fatal slug matched his rifle. But his story to police changed at least three times.

First he told them he fired two shots at a coyote and missed, according to police. Then he told them there actually was no coyote, but he did fire some shots but saw no tractor. Then he acknowledged he did see a tractor, he did fire some shots, but it was all a big mistake.

"Mr. Viens indicated he had taken his rifle off safety. It was loaded. He knew it was loaded. And he started pointing it at different objects,swinging it around. And his statement was that when the scope was on the tractor the rifle went off," said Hughes.

In court several members of Rejean Lussier's family wept as Viens denied the manslaughter charge. He was released on conditions: he must not handle guns, and have no contact with the Lussier family. The Lussier family declined comment as they left the courthouse. As for Viens -- he slipped out a door and was whisked away by his lawyer.
 
There are a lot of responsible people who hunt and then there are some real dipsticks. In PA I think it actually has something to do with the way the Game Commission sets the deer seasons. I grew up in the south and when deer season started it was exciting as a kid but I don't remember any of the adults getting too worked up about it. No one was in any hurry to kill a deer because the season was quite long. If you went enough times and stayed awake you will kill a deer or two. When I lived in PA deer season started with great anticipation and school is even closed in some counties for opening day. The question you would always hear was "Did you get your deer?". All the hunters were under a time constraint because of a short season and maybe perceived peer pressure to prove themselves as hunters. Mostly time constraint I think. I know there are some real idiots out there but I think the short season and the rushed mentality that it causes contributes to the problem. Unless you are hiding from someone it is a good idea to always wear something bright to aid rescuers should you need them. Gun season in PA is only two weeks and closed on Sundays, If I were you I would avoid the state lands like the shopping mall right before Christmas.
 
Theres a lot of dumbasses out there that can afford a gun and are stupid enough to shoot at SOUNDS, not to mention a dark shape moving thru the woods.
Several yrs ago right there in Pa there was a woman working in her garden, daylight, next to the house wearing white gloves. Some ahole shot her because he thought she was a deer (white gloves = white tail) He got off!
 
My cousins had a dairy farm just across the PA border from Binghampton NY.
They painted the word "COW" on their cows.
This is nothing new...
I remember them telling this story back in the middle 60's.

Stoopid people hunting is nothing new.
 
Sigh!

When I was 12 and in the Scouts, ten of us and two adults were walking along a well-used trail through some chest-high brush when a guy fired two at us from over 1/2 mile away. We held up a white T-shirt on a stick and waived it back and forth. The first one of us to risk a look saw the guy DT'g it over the ridge opposite us. We went over and found 2 empty 30-06 cases, lotsa' dead cig butts, and seven empty beer bottles.

We were all wearing orange hats or caps.

:rolleyes:
 
One More thing to keep in mind. If get to your hiking spot and you dont have an orange safetey vest, PA ranger stations and some other states will give them to you if you request them.

I learned this after my hike was over.:rolleyes:
 
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EmsRescueGuy said:
One More thing to keep in mind. If get to your hiking spot and you dont have a vest, PA ranger stations and some other states will give them to you if you request them.

I learned this after my hike was over.:rolleyes:
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Glad you made it home safe, I live in the scranton area, but I hunt out in the western part of the state where I am from. Now is a good time to wear orange, and even now when archery is in along with turkey and squirel is in, your supposed to wear orange or have it right by you..........When I was younger, I was in my tree stand and I had a metal ladder leading up to it. It was the 3rd week and squirel season had just came in. I was sitting in the tree, had orange wrapped around the tree and base of the ladder. I saw a hunter walking through the woods, all of a sudden, he just began shooting everywhere with his shotgun, he even shot at my metal ladder, you could hear the BB's hit it. I jumped up and began waving my arms and yelling. I climbed out of the treestand. My father got out of his also as we could see eachother from out spots. He spoke up so the guy could hear him, that we were getting out of here before this a**hole shoots someone. The guy was yelling and mad because he was called an a**hole...........We made it out of their safely, but its amazing how goofy some people are. The guy never apologized for shooting about 4 feet under me. Idiot. Talk about scaring the sh*t out of you.......lol. So far, I have taken 38 whitetail, I dont shoot at them running. I wait until they are walking or standing so I can get a clear shot and am aware of what is behind. Thats what I was taught since I was a kid and continue to practice it today and any day I am in the outdoors with a firearm.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Sigh!

When I was 12 and in the Scouts, ten of us and two adults were walking along a well-used trail through some chest-high brush when a guy fired two at us from over 1/2 mile away. We held up a white T-shirt on a stick and waived it back and forth. The first one of us to risk a look saw the guy DT'g it over the ridge opposite us. We went over and found 2 empty 30-06 cases, lotsa' dead cig butts, and seven empty beer bottles.

We were all wearing orange hats or caps.

:rolleyes:
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What does DT mean?
 
Toucan Oasis said:
Now kids are, for the most part, nothing more than fat little oxygen thieves
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Oxygen thief...:) You had to have been in the Military. I haven't heard anyone else but me use that term since I got out. I use it all the time, and everyone around here laughs like they've never heard a funnier derogatory comment.
 
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