From Pine View Farm

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is a “sound” decision.

According to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the victim was shot while walking through a cutover after being mistaken for game. The shooter, a 51-year-old Richmond man, was a guest of the hunting club and was walking alongside the cutover with two members when he heard the sound of breaking limbs adjacent to his location. He then positioned himself in front of the sound, raised his shotgun and fired once after seeing movement. His shot struck the victim in his left and right leg from a distance of roughly 49 feet.

When my brother lived in Vermont 30 years ago, his boss stopped hunting after he heard some out of town hunters talking in a bar. One said, “Did you bag anything?”

The other replied, “No, but I got off some sound shots.”

When the boss realized that “sound shot” meant shooting in the direction of a noise without knowing what made the noise, he decided that hunting was no longer worth the risk.

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