Posted By: Double Naught Spy
Thermal Hunter Mistakes Another Hunter For Hog, Kills Him - 09/15/17 02:58 PM
...and it was recorded on video.
http://www.wyff4.com/article/shot-that-k...rs-say/12239667
There are a lot of ways to critique this. I have already seen comments about how the victim should not have been on all fours. I find that rather preposterous. There may be all sorts of reasons for being down on the ground, be it going through a fence, trying to find something dropped in the dark, stalking, going through brush where the only way through is by going low, etc.
People get mistaken for other game with alarming regularity by hunters NOT using thermal and who weren't on all fours. So I have trouble thinking this is the cause of the incident.
More than ever, the cause would appear to be what is typical. The shooter failed to identify the target properly and pulled the trigger. From the brief description of the video in the article, investigators could not identify the victim in the video either, describing him as being an outline of something on all fours.
NOTE: The scope in the article is NOT the scope used by the shooter, same brand, but not even a thermal scope.
http://www.wyff4.com/article/shot-that-k...rs-say/12239667
There are a lot of ways to critique this. I have already seen comments about how the victim should not have been on all fours. I find that rather preposterous. There may be all sorts of reasons for being down on the ground, be it going through a fence, trying to find something dropped in the dark, stalking, going through brush where the only way through is by going low, etc.
People get mistaken for other game with alarming regularity by hunters NOT using thermal and who weren't on all fours. So I have trouble thinking this is the cause of the incident.
More than ever, the cause would appear to be what is typical. The shooter failed to identify the target properly and pulled the trigger. From the brief description of the video in the article, investigators could not identify the victim in the video either, describing him as being an outline of something on all fours.
NOTE: The scope in the article is NOT the scope used by the shooter, same brand, but not even a thermal scope.