Man kills Cow

True, the cow was an unfortunate accident and shouldn't have been there, but this line really bothers me:

He put the cross hairs on the movement a fired.

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Is that how you do it in Michigan? Remind me to stay the hell out of the woods if I'm there.

SD800, typical media response.They will spin it in to something that will sell. Richard should have been more careful, but I can see how it could happen. There is a lesson in it for everybody. He learned it the hard way.

I thought I would let people know the truth.

Armedbear is correct, what he did was wrong and believe me, there is no one on this earth that knows it more than he does, he feels terrible, I have spent several hours talking to him about it and all he ever says is thank god it was not a person.

They have charged him with reckless discharge of a firearm for shooting what he thought was a coyote.

What this guy did is nowhere near as wrong as the doofus in (IIRC) Montana who while elk hunting shot two kids on their trail bikes. In the broad open, daylight, etc., etc., no excuse whatsoever. Yet, he swore he thought he was shooting at elk!

Well, clearly, shooting kids on trail bikes in plain view is a bad thing, Art.

Happened here, too, though the guy was (fortunately) such a lousy shot that he missed. The people on quads yelled at him, and he said he swore he thought they were deer. Friend of mine was standing nearby when it happened.

I don't understand that stuff. Hunting can be scary when there are people out there who are that dumb, or crazy, or whatever.

That doesn't mean that shooting a movement in the brush is EVER acceptable. No rack over the fireplace, no elk sausage, no revenge for a dead pet, no nothing is ever worth endangering the lives of other people!

he feels terrible, I have spent several hours talking to him about it and all he ever says is thank god it was not a person.

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Hell, there's no need to feel terrible any more. I'm sure he won't do that again. I hope he'll be okay, and escape serious legal troubles. I'm sure he's suffered enough.

And I understand that papers seldom get stories right. I've been around or known those who were around for a few, and the news report generally sounds totally different from what really happened.

I hope Richard is doing well. This isn't worth fretting over forever or anything. And WRT the cow, good fences make good neighbors. It's not his fault his neighbors' cow roams.

On that farm he had a yote E I E I O

Feral cow is my favorite wild game meat.

Feral cow?

Is that the latin name for what we call "slow elk"?

What this guy did is nowhere near as wrong as the doofus in (IIRC) Montana who while elk hunting shot two kids on their trail bikes. In the broad open, daylight, etc., etc., no excuse whatsoever. Yet, he swore he thought he was shooting at elk!

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Something like that happened to the grandson of some of my grandmother's friends. The story as I heard was that he (the grandson) was out paintballing with some friends, and was wearing camo. Well, as they were out paintballing some trucks came roaring by on a road near the area they were at. One of the trucks turned around, came back. The guy driving gets out, takes out a rifle, and takes a shot. Hits the grandson right in the neck. Guy thought he was shooting at a ****ing raccoon.

Last I heard, he was paralyzed in the hospital. Don't know if he lived. I haven't heard anything else about it, so I'm assuming he did. (I've never met him, and neither have my folks, who were the ones who were telling me about it).

RULE #3 PEOPLE: Know thy target!

I know it was an accident, but I can't resist:

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Shooting a cow is bad, but what about breaking copyright laws?

The man made a mistake. We all do. Use it as an opportunity to remind ourselves to always be sure of our targets and what is beyond. Lucky for him it was a cow and not the neighbor.

On the lighter side of this a couple friends and I have already got a plan in place. Once this is over and he is not so sensitive about it we are going to have T-shirts made with a cow on the front with the circle and hash mark through it, and on the back will be written "Chicken, It's whats for Dinner"
Richard said if he ever eats another steak it would be to soon.

I found this forum when I did a search for "man kills cow" and did not know it was a Firearm based web site, I think I found a new home.

Some of the people drawn out of the woodwork by the shooting sports truly amaze me.
Zeke

No such thing as an honest mistake when you're shooting.

Sounds like he tried to make good on it though.

And you laugh at the British !!!!!

When was the last time I was speechless? Oh, about 8:48 a.m...today.

Edit to add: Anyone know why he used the S10 Blazer to haul the cow...because he couldn't moooooove it alone.

Doc2005

You can program yourself into expectations, just as this cow-shooter did. He'd fixated on a color.

I once watched a really nice buck headed along a trail toward me. The trail then went through a brushy area before continuing on to a dry creekbed. So, I was all set up to shoot this big, nice buck.

Horns came out of the brush; I shot, and down went Bucky.

One problem: That big buck had goosed a little buck and guess who came out of the brush? Little fella.

Don't get all "pre-programmed" on expectations.

After glassing, then choosing, I shot at a nice antelope at several hundred yards, I missed. There were two far out and moving farther away, the one with the good horns was in the lead. At this distance and between recoil and looking over and speaking to another hunter between shots the antelope changed positions and the small horns was now in front. I shot the small horns, that was in my eyes, a shooting mistake.

Worked with a guy that shot at a deer standing in thick sage brush. When he recovered from the recoil the deer was standing there like nothing had happened so he shot at him again DRT. When he gets up to the deer there are two laying there. The first one was hit hard went straight down, apparently another was bedded down right where the first was standing and stood up at the commotion and was shot also. I could see how easy that could happen as I have on numerous occasions seen one mulie standing and another bedded down right next to him out of sight down in the sgae brush. I have watched deer like that more than once for over an hour and never knew the second animal was there till I caused the first to move. Mistakes can and do happen it is not a perfect world.

I have no excuses for a guy that shoots cows for coyotes, except for the fact we are all human and therefore subject to mistakes. The guy that claims to have never done something stupid is either Deity or stretching the truth considerably.

On the lighter side of this a couple friends and I have already got a plan in place. Once this is over and he is not so sensitive about it we are going to have T-shirts made with a cow on the front with the circle and hash mark through it, and on the back will be written "Chicken, It's whats for Dinner"
Richard said if he ever eats another steak it would be to soon.

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Sounds like a good Christmas present to give him this year. If you wait until he isn't so sensitive about it, you might be waiting a loooooong time.

fortunatly he learned an invaluable lesson with nobody getting hurt.
For the most incompetent misidentification of a target a friend of mine managed to mistake a sheep for a t55 main battle tank
how this amazing event happened he was meant to engage the hulk at 1800m with the optical sight of a Milan anti tank missile somehow this fool engaged the thermal sight so Northumberland moor in oct its cold so tank hulk does'nt show up. Poor flossie brilliant heat signature albeit that of a sheep our hero engages sheep. hell of a shot even wire guided with a 7x scope not much of a sheep left 155mm heat is over kill for sheep hunting
falklands 1991 recce element tasked to help islanders cull geese 600 rounds 5.56 fired on fully automatic no geese hurt
salt rubbed into wound FIDF female solder kills two geese with one 9 mm round from an smg

Geese with 5.56?

Anyhow at least he is just negligent and not an obscenely stupid criminal. I am sure he will get over it. I would hope before he gets behind the scope again he has some more training as well.

Art, somehow I don't see much of an analogue between shooting a buck that came out of the brush where you watched one go in, then finding that it was a different buck, and shooting at movement in the brush, or shooting at kids on trail bikes.

Maybe that's just me.

I suppose it could have been a PETA member in brown clothes and an antler hat, but that would qualify said person for the Darwin Award.

I suppose it could have been a PETA member in brown clothes and an antler hat, but that would qualify said person for the Darwin Award.

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I'd feel just awful if I ever did something like that...






























I mean, would I have to waste a tag?

I don't think so.

But in my state, you'd have to report the shooting within 48 hours. You'd probably want to make the cell call in 47 hours, 55 minutes, just to make sure you're legal.

1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
4. Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.