Situation ethics: what would you have done?

[robb92]

I've had to do the same thing, saw a guy shoot a doe in the spine with his bow and then started to walk off to where his truck was parked and I asked him why he didn't finish her off, said he didn't want to waste another arrow, I asked him did he have a knife? He said yeah, told him to start using it to put her out of her misery and show repsect for the animal. He started laughing at that and I went and cut her throat and called the game department on him, read about it the local paper about a week later that the guy had recieved a ticket for what amounted to animal abuse. There is no place for it in the woods when another "hunters" give the rest of us who follow the rules and are ehtical a bad name.

[jamesjet]

Glad you were there to stand up to that B.S!  Not sure how I would have handled that until I was in your situation.  I didn't know the
hunting regs were printed in Japanese!  Oops...wait thats the the DMV... 

[Head-shot]

I shouldn't be laughing as its serious, but I was picturing his look and that shiny new gun being thumped along side his head....

Me too... nothing leave a mark quite like a good butt stroke

I think you did the right thing. It all come down to INTEGRITY. Some people just do the right thing even when nobody is looking. Well done norsepeak 

[Blade]

You did the right thing and hopefully educated that stupid son of a bitch about what it means to take an animals life, they deserve better.  
Thanks for having the guts to correct this a-hole. I bet he thought about that incident all night.  

[Diehard0123]

Why people can't do a little research before they buy their first hunting license is beyond me.  WDFW should provide a free DVD to every first time license buyer that walks you through the steps of cleaning an animal, dispatching an animal,  safety, ethics, and Washington Hunting laws.  Reality is that this still would not stop people from being stupid. 

[ICEMAN]

Norsepeak. I agree with your approach. I would have done the same. I have no problem correcting some freaking *censored*, in town, at a movie, at the beach, in the woods. I have always lived that way, stay principled, stand up for what is right, even placing my safety on the back burner many, many times.

Would I recommend anyone else do it that way? No.

Would I advise they take a different approach? Probably.

Would I put them down for standing up for what is right? Never.

I say good job.

Holy Crap Ice Man! that is what I was going to say!

Glad to hear someone was thinking like me......  Scary too..... 

[brokenbone]

I carry a SIG 220 45 for the cats and a holes that i meet in the woods.  i could never get the rifle into action b4 a cat is on me.  i could get the 45 into action.  i have been introduced to the other side of hunting a few years ago.  i was not armed at the time.  i realize that i wild have done the same thing.  but i would have gotten allot of his info and mby some pics.  if the dolt was not armed at the time of confrontation then he may take it the wrong way when i come up to him with a rifle and a side arm. the fish and game dept is not to good about getting these people locked up.  it is indeed our eyes that help them.  info to the fish and game my help.  i have a friend that is a gamey i could ask what info they would want.

glad you intervened and i hope the d/a knows that there are better ways to deal with  wounded game.

[alecvg]

I would have shot it.

[croix]

I think this guy really needed to learn a lesson. I tend to be a little more level headed and diplomatic but Norsepeak's approach has merit.

Based  on  the  law  of  primacy,  students  retain  information  they  learn  for  the  first  time  longer than  they  retain  information  they  must  relearn.  Unlearning  incorrect  procedures  (or  bad  habits) is  always  more  difficult  than  learning  the  correct  procedures  in  the  beginning. Norse's "student" needed to unlearn a bad habit.

The  law  of  intensity  states  that  a  vivid  experience  is  learned  better  and  retained  longer. Norsepeak certainly provided a vivid learning experience.

Of course there are other laws that apply here (the actual legal ones re: assault, harassment, etc) but this guy will definitely remember the lesson he got.