Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
Listen back Dude because after 60 years in the field I may know just a little more than you do and am just trying to pass a little bit of it along!!! I dont give a damn if you didn't need any tags for them. From your description of the incident you were wrong if one shot hit two animals, so please learn from it!!! That's all I'm trying to get across to you and any other newbies that think it was okay! Happy holidays and be safe out there!
If in your "60 years in the field" experience you never screwed something up or did anything sketchy or visited a "gray area" in terms of legality then your a flat out liar. Sorry but that's just pure BS. Every single one of us has done something big or small that we prolly thought about after and said "damn...maybe shouldn't of done that or did it different". Your gonna sit there and tell me that your never fired a shot too early or too late in the day and that you counted down to the exact second of when you could legally pull the trigger? Everyone screws up at some point just like if ya shot a button buck but thought it was a doe. I'm sure alot of guys will give you a ton of crap about it but it happens all the time. My old man is 60 and has been hunting since he was 5 and even he screwed up in Canada about 10 yrs ago and shot a bull caribou and the bullet passed through and hit a cow he didn't see stand behind it. Killed both of them. Wasn't intentional and he owned up to it to the outfitter who was cool about it and used one of his own cow tags on it to avoid a unnessasary call and harassment from game wardens. That story alone visits a screw up to being sure of the back ground behind your intended target and also visits a gray area of legality with tagging. Lesson learned. Give the guy a break!