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- From: don@tellabs.com (Donald Leonard)
- Subject: Re: Michigan Deer Season
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.184958.1426@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- References: <1992Nov17.161735.14218@meaddata.com> <1992Nov18.134536.4686@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1992Nov19.182809.29461@meaddata.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.182809.29461@meaddata.com> dougr@meaddata.com (Doug Ritter) writes:
- >This is really interesting. Why exactly is there such a fear of being
- >shot during deer hunting season? There can only be 3 possibilities:
- >
- >1) The hunters are idiots who can't tell a brightly colored, loud, fast
- > moving snowmobile from a brown, silent, stealthy deer.
- >
- >2) The hunters are angry-young-men types who will blow your head off if
- > you screw with their hunting prospects by riding a snowmobile through
- > the woods.
- >
- >3) You might get shot accidentally if you come flying through the woods
- > between a hunter and his prey just as he fires.
- >
- >Granted, in any of the three cases, you're just as shot. But what does
- >#1 say for hunters? I was once a hunter myself, so I feel like I can
- >converse on the subject intelligently, and I just can't buy reason #1.
- >
- >#2 is really no more intellectually attractive to me. Has our society
- >really degenerated that far? I know we're a collective mess, but come on!
- >Are the woods really filled with cold-blooded killers? I can't buy
- >*that* either!
- >
- >So that leaves me with #3. And what are the odds of this happening?
- >Look, I've hunted. I *know* that it's not like the Daffy Duck cartoon
- >where everything that moves is blasted by a hail of gunfire. It just
- >doesn't fly that a law has to be passed to protect snowmobilers from
- >hunters. So is it possible that it's just an issue of "fairness"? What
- >I mean is, is the legislation designed to keep the snowmobilers out of
- >the woods to give the hunters a better chance of getting a deer?
- >
- >*That* I *can* accept. Anybody know for sure what's behind this kind
- >of legislation? Are other states besides MI and WI doing this?
- >
- >--
- >Doug Ritter (dougr@meaddata.com)
-
- In all fairness - I doubt you would get shot. But you have to ask
- yourself one question... "do ya feel lucky??"
- I agree... when was the last time you saw a green or red deer with
- either 650 or EXT painted on the side??? :-)
- But what the hell, why take the chance.
-
- On a more serious note - the type of weapon used may make a
- difference. Like shotguns slugs for instance dont carry far at
- all. But rifle bullets do -- many miles for that matter.
- Also snowmobiles move very quickly. I run up on deer all the time
- where they are just a couple of feet from the front of the
- sled. Just because a hunter heres a sled off in the distance
- doesent mean it won't appear in his sights at any moment.
-
- don
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