ORIGINAL: kshunter
NO! About 4 years ago, my neighbor shot over the hill at a running deer. On the other side of the hill a local was driving down the remote dirt road, and unfortunately the bullet went through the truck, through his chest and killed him. A husband and father of 2 young girls. I dare anybody to tell those girls that shooting shooting over a hill blindly is okay! The only safe way to shoot is knowing where the bullet is going... no exceptions. Just as learned in basic Hunter's Education. Anybody that thinks different needs to re-take the course. Just my 2 cents.
I want the whitetail still hunters to chime in on this...
How about you guys that like creeping through the timber after elk?
I think that this "no exceptions" stuff is a little over blown...
I can give an example of a "sky line" shot I took, that happened to be on a caribou, that I would take every time.
A friend and I were floating a river in Alaska. We would get out and glass from the highest point. We could see for MILES. Nobody, nothing, nada...
I make a 30 minute "stalk" to intercept a group of caribou. My shot end up being about 90 yards... slightly up hill... at the bull as he was cresting a small ridge.
ORIGINAL: Bare Back Jack
Spyro-Gutsy choice.
Let me put up a senerio for ya,
Say you are on a Couse deer hunt in Mexico and you spot this big buck laying on a ridge on the skyline above you.So you take the shot and whack he hits the ground.Now you and your guide walk up the hill and find your buck but also 10 feet on the other side is another buck.Now don't say it can't happen,I've seen bullets do funy things when they come out the other side,say this bullet deflected down ward and hit this deer.Now you have a problem you have 2 deer down and now what do you do.
You can walk away
You can call the game warden and tell himyou have 2 deer down,and not only will you be ticketed,you will be fined and lectured for shooting on the skyline.
You can beg someone else to tag the deer.
Now wouldn't it been easier to know your target and beyond and miss all this trouble.
Well, we would tag it...
The ranch we hunt gets 16 landowner permits, which I buy from the landowner, and I maybe hunt 5-6 people on it per year.
Now if it was in the states... I'd turn myself into the warden and deal with the consequences.
Not to sound harsh but my concern is for human life... The 1 in a 1,000,000 chance that I shoot/wound another animal, along with the one that I intended to kill, would be a chance I was willing to take.
It seems that many believe that I am advocating shooting at some 20 or 30 degree angle or something in the middle of some public unit or farming area.
I am talking about extremely remote and/or large private areas.
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