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- Path: sparky!uunet!esseye!jls
- From: jls@esseye.si.com (John Schroeder)
- Subject: Re: Michigan Deer Season
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.154529.23176@esseye.si.com>
- Organization: Smiths Industries
- References: <1992Nov17.161735.14218@meaddata.com> <1992Nov18.134536.4686@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1992Nov19.182809.29461@meaddata.com> <1992Nov20.184958.1426@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:45:29 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In <1992Nov20.184958.1426@tellab5.tellabs.com> don@tellabs.com (Donald Leonard) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- The real reason is that "they" dont want hunters using snowmobiles
- or any ORV to hunt deer. It would be too easy for a hunter to
- enlist the help of a snowmobiler to flush deer. You guys didn't
- think they wrote that law to protect snowmobilers did you?
-
- John Schroeder
-