Five Dead, Three Injured in Wisconsin After Confrontation Between Hunters

[Darkside]

I know there are some hunters on here who might be offended, but I think this is what happens when you let morons (most people) carry guns. Though I guess them shooting each other is positively controlling the gene pool.

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[AltaPowderDaze]

i'm not offended by it and i used to carry regularly. i have little need to in utah though.

with hunting i usually see a few accidental shootings back home every season. this shit takes the cake though. what do hunters in minnesota have in their diet that makes them a few prozacs short of a prescription? i'd say that dude needs to up his thorazine.

[crashnburn'd]

Good rule of thumb for anyone who comes to MN or WI around Thanksgiving is to not drive country roads.... Also, as soon as hunting season starts, the biking season is over. Never heard of anything quite like this, but a few years ago someone shot a horse a young little girl was riding in Norther MN.

[Darkside]

i'm not offended by it and i used to carry regularly. i have little need to in utah though.

with hunting i usually see a few accidental shootings back home every season. this shit takes the cake though. what do hunters in minnesota have in their diet that makes them a few prozacs short of a prescription? i'd say that dude needs to up his thorazine.

I'm glad I didn't offend. I do think that you have no need to carry a gun in this country, ever.

[cj001f]

My first thought was "How much had they had to drink?"

[FNG]

The guy wasn't wearing orange. The news lead-in was about "A hunter hunting hunters" - holy alliteration! I think I might go rent Surviving the Game with Ice-T tonight so I can get a better handle on this unfortunate situation.

[Sublime]

Deer season always seems to bring out a "odd lot" to say the least. A few years back there was reports of cows getting shot left and right. How drunk you have to be to shoot a cow is beyond me. I think that for most hunters it's just an excuse to get away from the wife for a weekend or two.

Honestly if I was going to hunt in state land I would drive far far far far away from everyone. I wouldn't want some hick shooting at me because he heard some rustling in the brush.

[Mountainman]

I'm glad I didn't offend. I do think that you have no need to carry a gun in this country, ever.

Get out of your hole and live somewhere else if you really think that.

and once again, one stupid hunter gives a bad name to the rest.

[FNG]

Just as many guns in Canada without the murder rate. It's not the guns; it's us.

[cj001f]

Get out of your hole and live somewhere else if you really think that.

All depends on how you want to live your life. Most situations where you'd want a firearm are easy to avoid.

[AltaPowderDaze]

I'm glad I didn't offend. I do think that you have no need to carry a gun in this country, ever.

please elaborate. do you mean no guns anywhere? as in not even in a private home? just not on the streets? in the woods?

[Mountainman]

All depends on how you want to live your life. Most situations where you'd want a firearm are easy to avoid.

I live in MT, i'm not talking about having some guy start shit with me on the street, i'm talking about hunting, farmers/ranchers and other situations.

[Blizzard7763]

I heard somewhere that innocent people carrying guns are more likely to be shot in a confrontation than people without a gun, regardless of the situation.

Also...tree stands and guns? That's like butter knives and electrical sockets...bad idea.

[cj001f]

I live in MT, i'm not talking about having some guy start shit with me on the street, i'm talking about hunting, farmers/ranchers and other situations.

You are talking about hunting, varmint control, etc., correct? Plenty of use for firearms as a tool in those situations.

I was referring to concealed weapons permits and packing a pistol. I would guess Darkside as well. Unless your in law enforcement, or live a lifestyle that would probably preclude you from obtaining a CCP I don't see much use.

[Trackhead]

Get out of your hole and live somewhere else if you really think that.

and once again, one stupid hunter gives a bad name to the rest.

Thanks Mountainman, my thoughts exactly.

[Mountainman]

You are talking about hunting, varmint control, etc., correct? Plenty of use for firearms as a tool in those situations.

I was referring to concealed weapons permits and packing a pistol. I would guess Darkside as well. Unless your in law enforcement, or live a lifestyle that would probably preclude you from obtaining a CCP I don't see much use.

Should have stated that earlier in your comments when they are in a thread that started with hunting as the topic.

[AltaPowderDaze]

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I was referring to concealed weapons permits and packing a pistol. I would guess Darkside as well. Unless your in law enforcement, or live a lifestyle that would probably preclude you from obtaining a CCP I don't see much use.

my best friends fiance lost a roommate to a serial killer a few years back. she was inside of her own house and on her lunch break when she was raped mutalated and eventually decapitated. the man that killed her was about 230lbs and had atleast 100lbs on her. as long as there are people like this in the good old usa i feel that concealed weapons have a place here. people with hot heads and itchy trigger fingers do not.

[Big Blue]

Is it just me or one that one of the most poorly written articles you've ever read. Nearly every "paragraph" was a single sentence. Do they not teach writing in journalism school or just not require journalism degrees for internet news agencies?

[warthog]

Is it just me or one that one of the most poorly written articles you've ever read. Nearly every "paragraph" was a single sentence. Do they not teach writing in journalism school or just not require journalism degrees for internet news agencies?

Slooooowest of sloooow pitches...

Edit... JONG

Wow that does feel good

[Castro's]

Is it just me or one that one of the most poorly written articles you've ever read. Nearly every "paragraph" was a single sentence. Do they not teach writing in journalism school or just not require journalism degrees for internet news agencies?

5 people get killed and you have the nerve to bitch about how well an article is written? WTF.

Anyway, with the increasing number of hunters and decreasing amount of hunting land I can't say that I'm all that suprised that this took place. Horrible incident. I'm suprised the shooter came out unscathed. He is going to be one hated man on trail and rightfully so.

[Plakespear]

I wouldn't want some hick shooting at me because he heard some rustling in the brush.

Growing up in Upstate NY, I know plenty of people who hunt. And there are occasional accidents, although shooting deaths are quite rare (heart attacks in the woods are much more common). Anyway, it seems like the shoot anything that moves mentality is more common amongst the Joeys from LI and NJ that come up. Us country folk know the difference between a deer, a rabbit, and a person.

[fez]

My brother was telling me about a incident a couple years ago where some drunk guys from NYC went up to a farmers house in rural maine asking him if they could hunt on his land. when he decided he didnt want drunk guys from nyc hunting on his property and said no they shot him.

my brother says its real hard to get permission to hunt on peoples land in Maine anymore.

I think more drunk guys from nyc are going to end up buried in the back 40.

[crashnburn'd]

Us country folk know the difference between a deer, a rabbit, and a person.

I know plenty of country folk from MN, WI, and Upstate NY for that matter who I wouldn't want to meet during hunting season. Ask gravitylover about the NY folk....

Seriously though, deer season in MN and WI scares me as an outdoor person.

[AltaPowderDaze]

I know plenty of country folk from MN, WI, and Upstate NY for that matter who I wouldn't want to meet during hunting season. Ask gravitylover about the NY folk....

Seriously though, deer season in MN and WI scares me as an outdoor person.

and i thought we had it bad in the south. i'm glad that most of the red necks down there know not to shoot at the first thing moving. i think that part of the northern problem is that your rifle seasons are very short, hense the jumpy trigger fingers of most hunters. our seasons are a few months so there is limited pressure on both hunters and animals. i feel sorry for the poor suckers shooting cows and horses up there. i don't think i could mistake one of those for a deer at even 1,000 yards.

[fez]

few years back a kid shot a llama in montana. From the Snopes.com article about an urban legend of farmers painting 'COW' on the sides of cows to keep them from getting shot:

Yet in 1999 an exotic beast apparently confused a hunter in Montana who brought down an unusual critter on the Cascade Hutterite Colony near Fort Shaw. Only after he and his partner tagged and field dressed their 300 pound trophy and presented it at the local meat processor's did they begin to suspect all was not as it should have been. The processor refused to handle the carcass, so the befuddled hunters next took the animal to the state-run game check station where they were informed that their "deer" was in fact a llama.

(btw, this was in the part where they tell true stories related to the legend)