General Deer Opener

[huntnphool]

 This is just a reminder to those jack asses heading out for the general season opener that are not prepared, GO GET SOME BINO'S NEXT WEEK. I swear to God that if someone scopes me and my daughter again this year they are going to get a 7mm headache.

 I'm sure there are guys on this site that do this, and just in case you have not been told before, this practice is a 

[uncoolperson]

being scoped isn't cool... really it isn't cool, I think i might start bringing an extra set or two of $20 binocs to hand out to every *censored* that scopes me next time. (worse when after scoping you, they remove the bullet from the chamber... come on I'm wearing orange, what deer do you know that are orange color... there are no orange tail in washington!)

my wife let me get a fancier pair of binocs this year, so I've got one to throw at the next person to scope me this year (she says buy one get rid of one)... gonna write on them "there are no orange tail in washington, you big idiot".

[HUNT]

 

[huntnphool]

gonna write on them "there are no orange tail in washington, you big idiot".

 

 I have had it happen every year to me but now that my daughter is hiking in with me it seems my tolerance level is at the breaking point. I have a tendency to internalize accidents of others and that story about that guy accidentally shooting his kid in the car just keeps flashing in my mind. When her and I got scoped last year it was almost the same thing going through my head, just not me doing the shooting. It scared the crap out of me, and like I said not because it was pointed at me but rather at my little girl. Maybe its old age creeping up, maybe I'm just blowing it all out of proportion, either way I'm finding it harder and harder to take a deep breath and handle things like this rationally!!!

[bankwalker]

i have about 5-7 pair in the truck during hunting season and will be throwing them at people who "scope" others, or anything for that matter. without the intention of shooting.

ive had it happen far to many times every year. and vail just increases ur odds of being scoped by about 1,000,000,000%

[uncoolperson]

I'm gonna feel sorry for the poor fool that points a rifle at my wife (her first year out), not from what I might do, but from the violence that quiet little lady can let lose if provoked.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Sore subject for me too.

Got scoped while I was sitting bright oranged in a clearcut on a hill a few years ago. Kid comes walking in the skidder and scopes the whole clearcut then holds on me. I stood up. He didn't move his hold. I set down and took a good sitting rifle rest and put my cross hairs on his trigger finger. If that finger was even close to the trigger, the though of "It's him or me" came to mind. It wasn't, but he held still. So did I. Once he lowered the muzzle, I ran down that hill at mach II with my rifle in hand. I was just gonna kick his ass I was so pissed. Then his dad walked in the skidder. Lucky. Then I gave it to his dad with both barrels. Dad didn't see that it was all that wrong. I stood there and asked.. If you're standing there feeling this way, if I reach toward my pistol, how long will it take you to get nervous. Do I have to pull it out of the holster? Just touch it? Point it at you? He says, 'You'll not be pointing a gun at ME!'. .... "Ah".. So it's OK for your kid to point a gun at something/someone he doesn't intend to shoot, but it's not OK for me to point a gun at you?

He started eating his words and then scolded the kid. They walked out. I went the other way into the woods. I kept an eye on them as long as I could though.

-Steve

[gtrplr]

I had a very similar thing happen to me in Oregon a few years back, its bad enough the idiot is walking in the bottom of my clear cut (ok maybe not "mine" but I was there first before light!  ) opening morning but then to scope ME? Lucky he is still alive! Great topic to bring up btw!

[littlebuf]

what if i turn the rifle around and look through the other side of the scope is that ok? thats not as dumb is it?

[huntnphool]

This is one of the spots we were scoped at. Really? You can't tell the two orange spots you are pointing your gun at are not deer? Then you shouldn't be hunting!!!

[huntnphool]

Great topic to bring up btw!

 Its been brought up before but being a little more than a week out its obviously weighing heavy on my mind.

[jstone]

This is why i stopped rifle hunting. My son has had a deer taken out from under us in twisp. Same day checking out a 2x2 and watched some stupid father shoot at it while his 2 kids stood there and watched. Good ethics there. Told my son"this is the last year we do this". It was a 3 pt. or better area.....

[jjdavis2222]

  I am a guilty party on this but it was not my fault.  

Remember when you have a back pack on and are in the woods make sure people can see your back orange!!

I was up hunting a couple years ago and I entered this drainage and thought I kicked some thing up on the other side. All I could see was this brown patch moving up the other side around 200 yards away. I looked at with my nacked eye and thought for sure it was a deer. Even when i got my scope on him it took a few seconds for the guy to turn around a little before I even knew it was a person. Felt like an idoit but lets remember when you throw that back pack on you, people behind you cant see any orange.

This guy maybe had a 1/3 of what is legal showing of orange. Again I felt stupid and I dont think the guy even saw me do this. He should of had some orange on his back side.

[huntnphool]

That brings up another good point, red and black flannel shirts or coats from the good ol days are not a substitute for blaze orange.

[littlebuf]

heres my hunting outfit. should be ok right?