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Offline Rainier10

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #75 on: October 24, 2018, 01:50:32 PM »
Unbelievable. So sorry to hear about this.  Hopefully more information will come out down the road as to what exactly happened so others can at least learn from this.  I understand that it can't and won't come out until the investigation is done but man there are a ton of questions to be answered.

Bottom line I feel so bad for the victim and all those involved.  Prayers for as full of a recovery as one can have from something like this.
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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #76 on: October 24, 2018, 02:27:33 PM »
I agree with the other comment that a lot more should happen then a lifetime license ban. Under the facts as described, at a minimum this was third degree assault. The hunter orange certainly could be seen in dim light. I heard enough stories like this that years ago I quit modern rifle. Very glad the victim survived.

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #77 on: October 24, 2018, 02:32:18 PM »
Is it weird I have yet to see this on the news

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #78 on: October 24, 2018, 02:34:31 PM »
Is it weird I have yet to see this on the news

Must be due to it being a hunter who was shot. Would be front page news everywhere if a hiker was accidentally shot.

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #79 on: October 24, 2018, 02:45:14 PM »
It used to be in this state that if a person shot a person or livestock - accidentally or otherwise - while hunting, that the offending party would lose their hunting privileges for life, no exception.

Nope...know a guy that accidentally peppered a guy in the face swatting a cripple...lost his hunting rights for two years then reinstated...in Washington

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #80 on: October 24, 2018, 02:56:00 PM »
Very sad.....glad to hear the victim / hunter will survive.  I hope and pray for as full a recovery as possible.  Hope the sons who had to witness this act recover as well.....what a horrible event to witness. 

All involved will forever be changed. 

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #81 on: October 24, 2018, 03:14:33 PM »
 :yeah:

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #82 on: October 24, 2018, 05:41:16 PM »
It used to be in this state that if a person shot a person or livestock - accidentally or otherwise - while hunting, that the offending party would lose their hunting privileges for life, no exception.

Nope...know a guy that accidentally peppered a guy in the face swatting a cripple...lost his hunting rights for two years then reinstated...in Washington

You did catch the 'used to be' part before noping out - right?

Am curious though - the guy you know who (not accidentally but rather) NEGLIGENTLY shot someone in the face -

Swatting a cripple?

Sorry  but the phrase is lost on me - I'm dang'd near old though if that explains my not having heard it

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #83 on: October 24, 2018, 05:51:36 PM »
Swatting a cripple means shooting a cripple bird so it stops swimming on you (duck, etc.).

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #84 on: October 24, 2018, 05:55:33 PM »
Thank ya KP - I learn something new every day.

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #85 on: October 24, 2018, 06:27:39 PM »
We were camped on Thompson Ridge Road and hunting just above Little Bridge Creek.
We heard rumors of this accident and the helicopter circled over my grandson and I several times.

In the 80s my hunting partner was shot in the foot by another hunter when he walked up to a down elk. Lost most his foot.

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #86 on: October 24, 2018, 08:04:33 PM »
Is it weird I have yet to see this on the news

Good! Keep it away from the news! Don't need anymore negativity towards us hunters as it is. I'd rather it not be all over the news.

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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #87 on: October 24, 2018, 08:06:06 PM »
Is it weird I have yet to see this on the news

Good! Keep it away from the news! Don't need anymore negativity towards us hunters as it is. I'd rather it not be all over the news.
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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #88 on: October 24, 2018, 08:19:31 PM »
Speedy recovery for the victim. Hopefully the other dude can never hunt again.
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Re: Twisp hunting accident
« Reply #89 on: October 25, 2018, 12:29:44 AM »
Swatting a cripple means shooting a cripple bird so it stops swimming on you (duck, etc.).

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I’ve never heard that term either. Are we sure it wasn’t an idiot trying to save a round and hit a crippled bird with the butt of his gun?


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