by Bob Walsh
I may be the wrong person to comment. I have never hunted large game other than bipeds, so I have no personal information base to work from.
On New Years Day Kim Drawdy, 30, and his 9-year old daughter, Lauren, were hunting in South Carolina near Waterboro. They were both "mistaken" for deer and shot to death by other hunters.
The Colleton County Coroner has not yet released a cause or manner of death. The Dept. of Natural Resources is investigating. In my limited experience in looking at reports of such things it usually turns out that consumption of alcohol was involved or the shooting was not as accidental as the shooters would have you believe. I have no idea what regulations, if any, S. C. has on hunter safety clothing but most states require that hunters wear so many square inches of high-visibility color while hunting just to prevent this sort of tragedy. Also, it helps if the hunters don't have their heads up their butts and actually identify their target rather than shooting at movement in the brush.
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35 years ago I was hunting with several others on a 500 acre lease. Just before sunrise I heard a rifle shot and exited my camper. One of the hunters yelled, "I got a big buck." To me it was an illegal shot before sunrise. It was also foggy. He went to the kill and came back shaken up. He had shot a cow. He said, "What should we do?" I said, "You better call the owner and pay for a cow." I left that day and never hunted that lease again. I think alcohol may have played a role in that kill. Idiot.
A buddy of mine was hog hunting at Hunter Leggit many years back and was damn near shot while taking a whiz by some dickwad whose idea of hog hunting was shooting at noise in the brush. The shooter "tripped over a log" a few times and left the camp and went home.
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