When I took my state’s required hunter safety course, one of the instructors was an older dude with grey hair and a ponytail who wouldn’t look out of place at a Dead & Company concert.
To point out the importance of wearing an orange hat during small game seasons, and also to “be sure of your target and what lies beyond it” he pointed out how much that grey hair and ponytail would look a lot like a squirrel if you only caught a glimpse of it through some brush.
Not saying that’s exactly what happened here, the kid doesn’t look like he was the grey ponytail type, but the article shook loose that memory in my head.
EDIT: not that I’m ungrateful, but somehow this is now my highest rated comment on Lemmy, and I’m just curious why this one in particular resonated to well.
Fair, I hadn’t thought of that but it makes sense. My first thought was that it was a very blatant murder cover up. But ive apparently fallen too deep into fiction if that’s what cane to mind first.
Aside from emphasizing the hat, that also seems like an opportunity to emphasize the importance of positively identifying one’s target and backstop. It’s reckless to shoot at something that might be a valid target.
Quickscope lmao /s
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Interesting word choice.
Yeah it was the craziest thing! Someone shouted, “Hey look, a squirrel” and the poor kid just keeled over.
Why the F do kids shoot squirrels? And who the F confuses a squirrel that fits in a shoe box with room to spare with a human of near-adult size?
The real question is why the fuck anyone would go hunting for squirrels with a large enough caliber weapon that it could kill a person.
You can drop a squirrel with a pellet air rifle im sure. Anything larger than that and youre not hunting a squirrel, youre just blowing it away.
Hunting squirrels is stupid enough on its own without doing it solely for the sake of shooting something thats alive. Thats not conservation, its blood sport
Squirrels are very frequently hunted with a .22. It works great for squirrels, but (like a pellet rifle) can be lethal to a human - especially if you shoot them in the head.
And there’s legitimate reasons to shoot squirrels. I used to do it for an exotic animal preserve because their population would explode and they’d eat everything in site.
their population would explode and they’d eat everything in site.
got a few friends who would go out to the family farm and hunt squirrel for a week for just this reason.
As a side-note, you can get air-powered pellet-rifles powerful enough to take down a deer.
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Sadly there’s a certain adorable resemblance
If only he was 1/16th the size, then i would believe the shooters. He probably got hate targeted and got brought out to “hunt”
Murder did occur to me, I watch a lot of detective shows.
But it’s just possible his body was concealed by brush and the back of his hair was seen against the branches.
Of course it would have to be a nearsighted trigger-happy idiot too “alpha male” to wear glasses, (or has a dad who’s not gonna let his son appear weak) but I’m pretty sure the situation self-selected for that.
Dude should have known better than to go hunting with Dick Cheney.
It was actually the fault of the guy who got shot. In the style of bird hunting they were practicing, someone flushes the prey. The shooter, holding their shotgun at low ready, swiftly brings it up and fires. Everyone knows who is shooting and it’s on the rest to the group to stay down. Dumbass stood up in Cheney’s line of fire.
Listen, I’ve been on Squirrel hunts. You use a dog to chase them up a tree, then shoot them down with a .22.
At no time should you be aiming at anything person level.
And then they came for furries
Nonsense
He died because someone didn’t identify their target and exercise muzzle control.
exercise muzzle control
I’m loving the expensive sounding wording here but if you get shot durit a hunting trip it is hard to not see that as karma
what do ya know, more irresponsible gun owners. If only something could be done to prevent idiots from getting guns, this whole country would be much better off.
Suggestion: instead of only preventing idiots from getting their hands in guns, why not prevent idiots? You know, with quality, accessible public education.
