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Ever Get Scoped?
gunpaq
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While deer hunting peering through your binoculars did you ever come eye to eye with a bozo scoping you? Someone using their rifle scope as a substitute for binoculars who is taking more than an inadvertant glance.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.<BR>
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I've made my own mistakes in the past. I've climbed into treestands with firearm cross-slung over my back (not loaded) and I've spent hours in tree-stands without safety harnesses. None of us are perfect but we have to watch eachother's back.
to be watching me, but you never know about people.
It would piss me off real good if I was to have that happen.
I`m not sure how I would handle the situation. I usually go
off with out thinking but not as much as I did when I was younger.
I would just like to think that no one would put me into that situation.
hunting partner. I would never ever put a scope on an individual, even knowing that this person was well out of range of my projectile.
Yes, I have had an idiot view me through his scope. That was in Ca. I hunt Utah where we have a mountain to ourselves. Have never had another, to my knowledge, scope me. Common sense dictates hunter safety. Unfortunately, some indivuals lack sense. Good subject matter
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Years ago(40 or so),never went deer hunting again.[:(][:(][:(]
IT'S WHAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT MAKES THEM AFRAID.
Somehow there seems to be a group of hunters who have forgotten that a gun isn't to be pointed without the intention of shooting. Passing over a hunter by accident is one thing. Scoping a hunter is another.
I've had it happen. It's something one can somehow feel. In most cases I've found it in my best interest to be somewhere else. In a couple instances I've felt it best to take cover and prepare to defend myself. Not a nice feeling either way.
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Yes,..I have scoped.
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
Got Balistics?
I was shot at once. Fortunately the Bozo missed, I dropped and watch and when he moved I put a broadhead in the tree behind him. Never saw him again, but I sure would have been tempted if I had.
My heros have always killed cowboys.
I've been shot at twice, which turned me off of deer hunting 4ever.
If I see it is another person I quit.
Measure twice, cut once.
Empty the clip!
My heros have always killed cowboys.
Getting scoped once may be inadvertant but being scoped twice is having a loaded rifle trained on you deliberately regardless of the idiot's intention behind the scoped rifle.
Many years ago as a teenager I was bear hunting with a family friend in Potter County and had an encounter of the close kind being scoped.
While at a vantage point taking a break we scanned the area with binoculars and my friend, a WWII and Korean vet, noticed a fellow scoping us and made me aware of the fact. We changed our position well out of the scoper's sights. Several hours later the same thing happened with the same hunter scoping us and we moved again but by this time the day was ending.
While walking out on a logging road we met up with the scoper. My friend asked if he was looking at us through his scope and the fellow answered "yes". My friend politely asked to look at his rifle, which was still loaded, he unloaded it and handed the the rounds to the scoper and promptly smashed the rifle, a really nice Winchester 70 30-06, against a tree and handed back to him and said "You'll never point this rifle at another person again and if you wanna do something about this I'll call the police for you".
Nothing ever came of it except some members of the scoper's camp paying us a visit that night to find out what happened. After getting the facts they still were a little hot and did not agree with my friends actions but did appologize for one of their members scoping us.
Intentionally scoping someone is wrong, period.
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That's why you should carry a pair of binoculars in the woods with you. You can get a very small set for a pretty cheap price, and they can be carried without even knowing they are there. A hunter should never point his gun at something unless he has 100 % target identification, and is fully aware of what the backstop is if he does shoot. Seeing movement, and scanning the area with your scope is aiming the firearm at something your not quite sure of. It's an accident waiting to happen. I don't mean to lecture you, and I'm sure you were honest and understand fully what everyone is alluding to here. Next time use a set of cheap binoculars friend, and if you can't, and still need a pair just let me know and I'll send you a set. That's how strong I feel about this topic. Take me up on my offer if you need to.
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