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Ohio's gun season kicked off Nov. 29 (2 days ago) and there was one person shot dead *by one of his own party members* and another shot himself in the foot, another in the hand, and the list goes on... boy people just are careless nowadays! As for my opening day in Ohio, i never say anyone else in the woods let alone any deer. Gun season is all messed up this year and I don't know why...

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Holy bejeezies!!

It's called a safety people... learn it, love it, USE it!

Is blaze orange required in Ohio?

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you have to at least have a blaze orange vest on. cant just wear a hat. people are just careless and dont pay attention to their surroundings. last night i was in a stand and 2 boys walked in where i was hunting. i mean young maybe 16 and 14. they were across the property line so i couldnt bitch but i didnt see an adult and i let them know i was there. even with the blaze on they didnt see me threw the thick stuff. i could barely see them too. i let them know i was there and they said they didnt see me. so i moved out and went to another stand for the afternoon. perfect example of why people get hurt. not paying attention. also i will find out who thier dad is and ask why they were alone. in ohio if you are under 18 you have to have an adult with you at all times during gun hunts. period. land owner or not.

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Thats terrible. The only accident I've heard about here is a hunter falling out of his tree stand. I think he dislocated his shoulder.
Like they always said on Hill Street Blues, "Lets be careful out there".

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Boy I tell ya I wear head to toe Blaze O during gun. Way to many factors involved just over the next ridge or brushline!:eek:

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I would like to take this time to pat my grandson on the back. He's 18 but only been hunting two years. Sun. morn. I radioed him and his dad, I was coming down and would walk around to the pines, and maybe spook a deer their way. Well, I jumped one and it run up to his stand, and them on past where my son killed her.

I ask Phil why he didn't shoot it, and he said he wasn't sure where I was.I was very proud of him, he's only killed one, and I know he was hyped to shoot this one.

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Is it legal to use radios to aid in the taking of game in KY? I know it isn't legal here in IL. Most of the Conservation Police here have scanning radios and can listen for guys using radios to "aid in the taking of game".

Uncle Matt (in IL)

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check the regs uncle matt i believe it is legal here in illinois

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Where in the rulebook does it say this??? I hunt with the game warden and have never heard of such thing, except during the supervised youth hunts. Oh yeah, and I hunt with the game warden for Highland County *informs me of rules, often*, never heard of it still....[:-]

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huh? Thats funny................me toooo!!:D I hunt off of New Market, what about you??:D

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I heard one fellow from where I want to move, (The Okanagan, British Columbia) shot himself dead crawling over a fence. Aparantly, he left his gun loaded, put it up against the fence, and crawled right over it! I think that is called natural selection. Survival of the smartest.

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Turkey_fan, I hunt with Jim Carnes, we hunt all over hillsboro pretty much, although I haven't gotten to go with him yet this year. He has been pretty busy with catching poachers, etc.

I hunt a place out there just past new market truck stop. I just went there two days ago with a friend and only saw one deer, a monster 8or 10-- but I can't shoot another buck and my friend couldn't find his gun that day, so he had the opp. to see the buck perfectly broadside at 30 yds., and he never had a gun....:D

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I can't understand it. Why on earth would you shoot if you didn't actually see the deer? These stupid hunter who shoot at sounds or shadows or whatever the hell just to shoot. I suppose they could be making skyline shots but still. Everyone who reads this please be smart and safe in the woods.

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Hit the nail on the head, but still, people just can't get it through their thick skulls enough to practice safe hunting;)

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How does someone shoot themselves in the hand ??????

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Now that is just crazy. Some people do not need to be in the woods. That is a scary thought, that many hunters (I use the term loosely) have that many accidents with in one party.[:o]

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oh yes it is in il. on page 36 of the il hunting digest at www.dnr.state.il.us.com

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Well i dont know what to say about all of the acidents that have happend in the woods in all the other states but i havent kept track of PAs acidents and deaths in the woods but come on now just cuz it is hunting season u dont need to act like u dont know what u are doing thats why they have classes on hunting and saftey .Im only 20 years old and it makes me sick i might not be the safest person in the woods but i just really dont know what to think i try to be as safe as i can and do what they told me to do keep the guns in safe directions and so on but then u also got people that use tree stands dont use the saftey straps and they fall out of the tree.Come on people use common sense when u are out in the woods and always treat your gun like its loaded and make sure the saftey is always on no matter what u could always think there is a deer comeing to in the brush and u never know it just might be a nother hunter and if u have your gun pointed at them with the saftey off what are they going to think when they see u pointing it at them .So come on people for the saftey of other hunters show respect and think smart and dont just keep the saftey off and dont point your gun at sounds.You all might think im a smart a$$ and being rude cuz this is comeing from a 20yrd but i care about other hunters out in the woods so lets all be safe and have a great ending to our hunting season.

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Well you cant always rely on those hunter safetey course. I took one last year even though I didn't have to because I was born before the cut-off date and I really learned nothing new. All the hunting safety I know and practice and will pass on to my kids I learned from my dad. The best thing is to get kids out to hunt and teach them the right way.