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COLFAX TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A man says he shot and killed a neighbor's cow after mistaking it for a coyote.

Authorities and the owner are skeptical.

The undersheriff in northern Michigan's Benzie County says he doesn't see how anyone could confuse a 1,400-pound, pregnant cow with a coyote, which typically weighs 20 to 45 pounds.

And anyway, shooting coyotes is illegal during deer-shooting season. Authorities asked the county prosecutor to bring charges.

The 42-year-old man told authorities he was out to shoot coyotes near his home Saturday when he killed the cow, Undersheriff Rory Heckman said. Heckman said the man then tried to drag the cow home.

"The part of his story he his holding to is he shot at a coyote. I don't know how he hit a several-thousand-pound cow mistaking it for a coyote," Heckman said.

The cow, named Hannah, had wandered away from her farm.

"My husband thought that he should go through some therapy looking at repeated pictures of cows and coyotes, because they look nothing alike," said owner DeAnn Mosher. "It didn't make any sense to me."

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lol....that's a stretch. and he tried to drag it home....too funny. several thouand pound cow? If I recall, clydesdales weigh about 2,000. Must have been a HUGE KILLER ZOMBIE COW
 
I get cows and coyotes mixed up all the time, they both looks so much like dogs:rolleyes: I sometimes get ducks and sheep mixed when the are all together on a farm, its really confusing especially when you toss cows into the mix:uhoh:

Of course has anyone seen the movie Black Sheep? Those sheep were crazy maybe this cow was a government experiment also and he had to kill it in self defense!
 
do it do it

I think he needs to grow some nads and fess up!!!!!! Whether it be stupidity, drunkeness, or being very, very hungry, or D all the above....... :banghead:
oh I forgot blindness.......
 
Sounds like the stories we've probably heard about some city slicker first time hunter driving up to the checkpoint with a jersey calf tied to the fender! :what:
 
I can tell you when I first arrived in East Texas years ago I asked what was in season (as opposed to West Texas) the guy at Walmart who gave me the lic. told us that cow could be hunted year around. He said that cow was pretty much a pest and most landowners would let you come out and hunt them for free just to get rid of them.

The wife and I were floored. So the wife asks; ''Do we get to keep the meat too?'' We got a funny look and that is when we discovered that ''cayow'' and ''cow'' are two very different animals in ETX. :D

That is the only time I have ever confused those two animals.

Sounds a lot more like a hungry poacher.
 
Hunting camp story from last week:

A guy was out elk hunting with his young daughter, and they had found a beautiful bull elk in an area where cattle were grazing. Her first elk was set to be a trophy!

"Shoot it! Shoot that big bull!" he whispered excitedly as he gestured towards her rifle without making any big motions.

"The bull?" "Yeah!" "Are you SURE?" "Yes! Shoot that big bull! Hurry up!" "Uh, okay."

BANG!

[Large male of the domestic beef cattle species stumbles and drops. Bull elk takes off running into the woods.]

"Uh... Oh ****!"

Seems he never told his daughter that the elk with the big antlers was called a "bull".
 
ArmedBear, NICE! :D We saw a small group of Desert Big Horns off of I-85 once in Eastern Oregon when my wife and I were going to visit my son at WSU. Keep in mind, she's a city gal. She asked me where they slept at night and I said what to you mean. She then asks "well do they go into caves to sleep?". I almost wrecked the car I was laughing so hard. It gets me "the look" everytime I bring it up now.:neener:
 
There is always the story that may or not be true, but sounds good involving the game wardens at the game check station arresting the the new hunter who was so proud of the giant mule deer he just shot which was actually just a mule.
 
When I was in high school, I went pheasant hunting with my dad. He had invited his boss who said he hunted when he was younger. We're walking on either side of a brushy ditch when my dad's boss shoots down into the ditch. My dad asked him what he was shooting at. His boss says "a racoon". My dad asked him why he shot the racoon, he wasn't hurting any thing. So my dad goes down in the ditch and sees this dead possum.

My dad picks it up by the tail and says "Jack, I think you've bagged a smooth tailed coon". I almost soiled myself I was laughing so hard. :D
 
I knew a guy who worked for DSHS as a welfare investigator after retiring from the police. Spent half his time catching cheats and the other half crooked employees, it sounded like.

Anyhoo, one time he went to see some recent SE Asian immigrants for some reason. They had knocked holes in the ceiling of the kitchen and had a large animal carcass hanging from the rafters by its hind legs. He took care of his business and later tipped off the game warden that they had poached an elk.

Next day he gets a call from the warden, who is cracking up. "Can't you tell a mule from an elk?"
 
Hey all,
I've lived next to Richard for 20 years and have known him since the 4th grade, he's a good man, honest as the day is long and definatley not a thief.

Here is what happened that morning that no press people will write about.
Our firearm deer season opened on the 15 of November and Richard could not hunt the first two days because he had to work, on Saturday morning he awoke and got ready to go hunting.
He walked back to his field which is about 3 acres, the center is pretty much open with a few pine trees in it but the northwest corner is part of a marsh that has Tagelder and Canary grass in it.The west side is bordered by a block of scotch pine that is owned by the guy next to him.

He entered his hunting shack just at daylight and sat down. about a hour later, in fact at about 7:50 a doe ran out of the block of pines and ran down the edge headed for the north west corner, she stopped one time and looked back nervously and then took off again. Richard was expecting a buck to be following but instead it was a coyote chasing her.

Richard tried to shoot the coyote when it was in the field but it was running to fast, both the deer and the coyote disapeared in to the canary grass. Richard saw movement through his scope in the grass seconds after the coyote disapeared and thought it was the coyote, He put the cross hairs on the movement a fired.

He was so intent on killing it because the coyotes have killed thier cats and he once tried to raise chickens and the coyotes killed and ate them. His wife was setting on their deck and had two coyote come up to the deck with their lab barking at them.
I personally shot 7 coyotes in my back yard last year, they are a nuisance and getting bolder.
You could shoot coyotes during the rifle season unitl a couple years ago when a trapper traped a wolf in lower Michigan, now you can't because the DNR is afraid some one will kill a wolf.

He saw the object fall over and figured he had killed it, he waited a few minutes and was going to continue hunting when he figured after the shot he would not see anything anyway so he exited his blind to go retrieve the coyote.

When he was about 15 feet away he saw that what he thought was a coyote was in fact a cow, the cow was laying down in the grass when he shot it. He could not believe his eyes and started thinking who has cows and why is it on my property.

We are not a farming community and the Besey family are the only ones in the area who have cows so he knew who it belonged to.

In order to get to this field you must cross the red creek which runs right behind his house, he has a narrow bridge that he made from a trailer frame and boards going over the creek, he knew a tractor would be to heavy to cross the bridge so he took his S10 Blazer over the bridge to retrieve the cow, making it easier to deal with.This is when Mr Besey approached him.

Mr Besey had been told the day before by the neighbor that owned the block of pines that the cow was in the field, In fact a few neighbors had seen the cow on their property and notified them of where it was, this cow was loose for almost two weeks, you would have thought with the firearm deer season approaching they would have been more concerned.

No one bothered to call Richards house and leave a message to let him know it was loose and with he and his wife work schedule they had not talked to anyone, I was out west hunting and did not get home until 10:00 the night before he shot it, in fact I was laying in bed and heard the shot.

He offered to pay for the cow and help take care of it and has his Home owners insurance involved to reimburse them for the cow.

He knows what he did was wrong and could have been worse.

He is being made a fool of and people are made to believe he was trying to steal and it is not right!! everyone makes mistakes, how many times you heard some one say I shot the doe by accident or I shot the little buck by accident, same thing they were not sure of thier target.

A few years ago the little womans uncle was driving to his hunting spot when a car with some younger guys in it were coming at him on the two track so he pulled to the side,they stopped to talked to him and one of the guys in the back seat had a loaded rifle in his case inside the car with him, when he reposition the gun he hit the trigger through the soft case discharging the gun.
The bullet went through the doors of both cars striking her uncle in the upper leg, the bullet richocheted of his leg bone and up into his internal organs, Killing him. The guy was never charged. Did every news paper in the United States carry that story, anyone remember it. Didn't think so.
 
Richard saw movement through his scope in the grass seconds after the coyote disapeared and thought it was the coyote, He put the cross hairs on the movement a fired.
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Damn, that's even WORSE.

I'm glad I wasn't walking somewhere nearby that day!

Shooting at movement in the brush?!?
 
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