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He ran 200 yards to her? He honestly thought he would hit a deer at 200 yards with a pistol in the dark? I call BS. I would make it my life's work to ruin this guys life.
The authorities said Ms. Billquist, 43, was walking when one of her neighbors, Thomas B. Jadlowski, believed he saw a deer in a field and fired a single-shot pistol.
Mr. Jadlowski heard a scream, and then ran about 200 yards to where he found Ms. Billquist with a gunshot wound, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. He called 911 and applied pressure to her wound until medical help arrived. She was pronounced dead at a hospital in Erie, Pa.
Mr. Jadlowski, 34, had fired his pistol after sunset, and it is illegal to hunt deer after the sun goes down, the statement said.
Who hunts with a pistol? If this is accurate - it's not impossible to hit a deer at 200 yards with a handgun, but even for an expert it still entails a fair amount of luck at that distance - then it was grossly irresponsible to take the shot even had it been in full daylight with an accurate identification of the target. Shooting a maximum range is unacceptable. No hunter should ever take a shot without a high degree of confidence of inflicting a shot that immediately brings down the animal. Hunt responsibly with a rifle, you clown.
But I once had a coworker explain to me that on the last day he has to hunt, he'll take pretty much any shot (he was describing shooting at a deer silhouetted on a ridge at long range, and when I asked him he admitted that he didn't know what was behind the ridge - he missed), no matter how long the odds. Or, apparently, how irresponsible. Just because he wants to fill his tag. I know some hunters who are very responsible, but a large percentage of them are just clueless slobs who rarely if ever hit the range and who have no business operating a firearm. About half of the ones I've been around will turn and sweep the barrel of a weapon, loaded and safety off, across one or more people and think nothing of it. The concept of NEVER POINT A FIREARM AT SOMETHING YOU DON'T INTEND TO KILL is lost on them.
I spend a lot of time hiking the woods, but not during hunting season. Not even in protected areas where hunting is prohibited, because as this article indicates you simply cannot trust hunters to know what they're shooting at, where the boundaries of the protected areas are, or to even care. Some might obey the rules. Maybe even most. But all it takes is one idiot who sees movement in the brush and starts blasting away on the off chance that it's something legal to hunt.
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I have to say, I'm impressed by the husband's gracious response.
If it had been my wife, I'd be going after everything that neighbor owned and would make it the goal of my lawsuit to bankrupt him.
Right? Accidentally taking a human life because you were trying to take a deer’s just... isn’t even a little bit worth it. It’s beyond reckless. Maybe even beyond careless.
Was trying to kill that hypothetical deer so important? Hopefully not now.
If I was the husband, the hunter would be waking up in a dingy warehouse chained to a pipe like one of the Saw movies. I would take my sweet time ending his life in the most horrible way possible.
A kill shot from 200 yards in the dark with a pistol is possible but I'd like to see the odds. I'm leaning towards there is more to this story but that's crazy bad luck if it's true.
I am not a hunter, but a pistol to kill a deer?? Are pistols used for hunting? And the husband says it "saddens him" and "there has to be some kind of lesson"? That sounds like he is describing a minor incident, not his beloved wife being shot by some imbecile. Very "Strangers on the Train".
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the legislature this year repealed the minimum age limit for hunting. It used to be that you had to be at least 10 years old to hunt in Wisconsin. Now, as leery as I am being around some idiots I've known that hunt, I'd much rather be around a 25-year-old idiot with a gun than you're average 10-year-old itching to get his first deer.
But now...
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MADISON, Wis. - The state Department of Natural Resources sold 10 hunting licenses to infants after Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill that eliminated the state's minimum hunting age.
Walker signed a Republican bill on Nov. 13 doing away with the 10-year-old minimum age to participate in a mentored hunt.
The DNR released data Tuesday that shows the agency had sold 1,814 mentored hunt licenses to children age nine or younger through Sunday. The vast majority -- 1,011 licenses -- went to nine-year-olds. Fifty-two licenses went to children under age 5, with 10 going to a child under a year old.
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