ST. HELENS, Ore. -- A hunting trip took a gristly turn when one member of a hunting party says he mistook another hunter for a deer and shot him.

The shooting happened Wednesday morning. Eric Samuelson, 46, of Scappoose, was shot through the hand and hip.

The hunters called 9-1-1 and authorities were able to zero in on their location with cell phone coordinates.

Columbia County Sheriff's deputies were then able to drive within two miles of Samuelson and walk in to assist him.

The Coast Guard was contacted to help fly Samuelson to a hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

An investigation continues.

Investigation?

Dipsticks with guns? Wearing camo instead of orrange? Check for alcohol and/or Cheney?

Case Closed.

More leftist schadenfreude.

Unless you're a vegan and own no leather, don't lecture hunters.

Herb

Hunting accidents happen every year.

Most all of them can be attributed to people not paying attention to the safety rules.

Rule #3 in my book is: ALWAYS be sure of your target and what is downrange from it.

Mrs. M, the rules vary as far as having to wear hunter orange.

Here in WA, muzzloaders don't have to wear orange but modern firearm hunters do. However if muzzle loading season overlaps with modern firearms season then all hunters must wear orange.

The differentiation is that there are far fewer muzzle loader hunters that there are modern firearms hunters.

Archery and Muzzleloader usually have to be at the most 60-70 yards to target and can usually see their target clearly and easy to identify as game. Modern firearm, or road hunters, see brush moving at 400 yards, shoot first, and then go see what they killed.

I will agree that the ultimate in sportsmanship is achieved with bowhunting.

Not only must one be very good in stalking game, but you also have to be good with a fairly primitive weapon which is really only useful at close range.

Herb

"Lecture"???

WTF? Earth to Herrb, come in, please.

As Skybill says some dipshit gets hurt or killed every year, it's just a matter of which story of stupidness gets reported first.

Mr. M is on day 8 of 11, searching for the bigger cousins of Bucky, Snowball and Bambi. Hopefully he's alive and well. No matter how much killing something for sport disgusts me, I'm happy he's doing something (safely) that he enjoys and is outdoors with his pals. But it won't be hanging in my garage, and I won't be eating it.

Herbb, I have bought nothing leather in years, so anything leather I own or wear is very old. Maybe a belt or purse?

And at least bowhunters and muzzleloaders use some skill.

No one should care about killing animals. If it tastes good, I'll kill it and eat it. Why the hell not?

Hmm . . . I guess if YOU get killed we shouldn't care then. I won't be eating you, but on behalf of the other living things on the planet, let me say "good riddance!"

P.E.T.A. = People Eating Tasty Animals!!!

Herb writes:

More leftist schadenfreude.

Unless you're a vegan and own no leather, don't lecture hunters.



Proper training should be required. Knowing you, you probably oppose THAT big govrnment idea too.

Wrong.

Training is good, particularly with firearms.

To think I'd consider anything to the contrary is to misread Ol' Herb yet again.

Herb

The Army has a very good firearm's training program!

All branches of the military do.

In fact if you have formal military firearms training you can use that in lieu of the 3 hour firearms safety course Oregon requires to get a CHP.

"The Army has a very good firearm's training program!"

I'm not sure why a firearm would need training. Is this a Hallibutrin thing?

It's to train it not to jump up and shoot someone unnecessarily.

"Is this a Hallibutrin thing?"

Hallibutrin? I once tried that to quit smoking!

It induces cardiac arrests. It took the dummy 6 years to realize it was bad for him and quit.

In order to stay on topic, I'll add that he's a pretty bad hunter too.

We had a dog shoot a man (accidently) in Douglas County about 10 days ago....

OK......If you have not seen it take a look:
Redneck Hunter
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3969771656244533576&q=redneck+hunter&tot al=91&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0