this is definitely not good for us.

Here's the article for those who want to read it:

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_5burns-3rfeb15,0,6135119.story

Reading it revealed what i immediately suspected. It's likely that the landowners insurance carrier decided to settle rather than fight it. It's likely that the terms of settlement will not be made public but I'd put the odds very high that the insurance company simply paid out rather than litigate any further. this is on of those unfortunate situations where an appeal wont happen due to the cost of the process. That is unfortunate because the initial ruling was clearly in violation of the law protecting landowners from liability in exactly this kind of incident.

The bad news forhunters is that this case will now be a precedent that a judge can ignore the law that has, until now, stood up well. It will now be much harder to use that law as a defense until someone successfully appeals a similar case.

It's a shame that one bonehead decides to take an irresponsible and reckless shot at a deer on the horizon and as a result, an innocent person gets injured and countless hunters and landowners will pay for the actions of that one idiot.