Kingcreek
Member
My gawd, I thought everyone had got the word by now. Apparently not.
Last night I was sitting on an east facing hillside overlooking a ravine and timber edge, waiting for the deer destined to fill tag #2 when I heard brush and branches breaking 150 yards away. Hm, really big deer maybe? Not this time, an orange clad hunter bulls through the brush and into the clear and looks across at me as I sit quietly in some grass about mid chest high.
I watch him to see what he would do next and sure enough, he shoulders his rifle and looks at me through the scope. Now I am obviously an orange sporting human. Maybe he wanted to see if he recognized me, I dunno, but my rifle was across my lap. I was far enough below the rim that the setting sun would not have blinded me to him.
I didn't move until he lowered his rifle, but then I got up and walked straight to him. I even left my rifle behind, I'm not sure why. He stayed put as I walked up to him and I see he is probably about 15 years old. Too young for an a$$ kicking from me.
I said to him, "I am going to give you the benefit of doubt that nobody ever told you different, but if you ever point a rifle at me again, for any reason, I'm going to assume it is a hostile act and I'm going to react accordingly. In other words, its not going to end well for you. You want to get a good look at something, you carry a pair of binoculars."
A rifle scope is for AIMING. Binocs and spotting scopes are for VIEWING.
I didn't really think this stuff happened anymore but I was wrong. I never asked him who he was and he mumbled an apology of some kind as I walked back to retrieve my rifle and head home. There was less than 30 minutes of shooting time left anyway but I was so mad I just wanted to get out of there before I did something that would get me in trouble.
I hope and pray that nobody on this forum does this.
Last night I was sitting on an east facing hillside overlooking a ravine and timber edge, waiting for the deer destined to fill tag #2 when I heard brush and branches breaking 150 yards away. Hm, really big deer maybe? Not this time, an orange clad hunter bulls through the brush and into the clear and looks across at me as I sit quietly in some grass about mid chest high.
I watch him to see what he would do next and sure enough, he shoulders his rifle and looks at me through the scope. Now I am obviously an orange sporting human. Maybe he wanted to see if he recognized me, I dunno, but my rifle was across my lap. I was far enough below the rim that the setting sun would not have blinded me to him.
I didn't move until he lowered his rifle, but then I got up and walked straight to him. I even left my rifle behind, I'm not sure why. He stayed put as I walked up to him and I see he is probably about 15 years old. Too young for an a$$ kicking from me.
I said to him, "I am going to give you the benefit of doubt that nobody ever told you different, but if you ever point a rifle at me again, for any reason, I'm going to assume it is a hostile act and I'm going to react accordingly. In other words, its not going to end well for you. You want to get a good look at something, you carry a pair of binoculars."
A rifle scope is for AIMING. Binocs and spotting scopes are for VIEWING.
I didn't really think this stuff happened anymore but I was wrong. I never asked him who he was and he mumbled an apology of some kind as I walked back to retrieve my rifle and head home. There was less than 30 minutes of shooting time left anyway but I was so mad I just wanted to get out of there before I did something that would get me in trouble.
I hope and pray that nobody on this forum does this.