You just are not getting what I am saying. I agree with you, but not everyone hunts that way. binoculars serve no purpose at the distances I hunt. I don't bring my gun up until I have already identified my target.

Most of the people shot get shot during shotgun season where no scopes are involved and huter orange is suposed to be worn. Some people just shoot at anything. Same thing with people shooting dogs, goats, horses and cows. Binoculars don't make up for stupid! More people get shot in thier homes than they do hunting I would guess.

Besides if you knew how to handle a rifle properly you wouldn't accidently shoot a person even if you were glassing them. But still you shouldn't point it at anything you don't want to shoot. People rarely get shot by ACCIDENT when hunting. They get shot on purpose, just the idiot that shot them didn't bother to wait 5 seconds to identify the target. He saw somethign move and fired at it. That is usually how it goes. They are not aiming the gun around and it magically goes off when it happens to be pointed at the wrong target. I will bet you in every case the trigger was intentionally pulled. When in reality the finger should not even have been on the trigger. Again I am not promoting aiming at something you don't want to shoot though.

Paul