At this moment, or hopefully before, you Immediately know you are hiking during dear, duck, or turkey season. Unfortunately for you, these seasons also tend to be the best season for hiking, biking, and camping (not [...] http://www.southernhiker.com
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At this moment, or hopefully before, you Immediately know you are hiking during dear, duck, or turkey season. Unfortunately for you, these seasons also tend to be the best season for hiking, biking, and camping (not [...] http://www.southernhiker.com ???????????????????????????
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 I think the spammer meant 'deer' rather than 'dear'. Or maybe he's got the hots for a roebuck or two.
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Toots - Trev will be along shortly to turn that to smut 
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 I'd have thought 'Duck!!' would be very good advice to follow during the hunting season.
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 Despite the spam there's actually some reasonable stuff on there. Nice Cades Cove route, and it could be useful for AT hikers.
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 Bleedin' spammer (in both senses of the word). Is it me or are we getting more of these lately? Mods - cast him out...
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There's an apology on that blog, it isn't the blogger doing the spamming. Strangely enough I was camping last night near Kettlewell, doing a kit shakedown, and was surrounded by bunnies, grouse, and hundreds of pheasants and the thought crossed my mind. Not proper hunters but poachers, 'lampers of no fixed abode' etc. Pitched up with a natural 'slit trench' just in front of the tent, kept an ear out and trusted to luck 
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Strangely enough I was camping last night near Kettlewell, doing a kit shakedown, and was surrounded by bunnies, grouse, and hundreds of pheasants and the thought crossed my mind. Not proper hunters but poachers, 'lampers of no fixed abode' etc. Pitched up with a natural 'slit trench' just in front of the tent, kept an ear out and trusted to luck
Even experienced shooters can get it wrong. A couple of years ago, a guy accidentally shot his stepson dead while out lamping for foxes. That guy was an ex-Marine so there was nothing with his weapon-handling skills. He saw the light reflected from an eye and took a snap-shot. Very tragic and only a .22 calibre round.
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Yeah I know, I'm a shooter myself. I really don't think there's an appreciable risk in this country from legitimate shooters (unlike the US where they seem to favour 'recon by fire' over considered and placed shots ). Bizarre they want everything not a 'target' to wear orange rather than restrict the yee-hah pot-shot bigade.  Poachers etc are more of a concern but again the risk is very small. IIRC one of the recent lamping accidents involved 'travellers' who had no right to be there. Anyone who can't distinguish a human from a fox shouldn't be trusted with a penknife let alone a rifle.
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Remember the Tom Lehrer song about hunting .
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 I do a bit of fox / bunny lamping, shooting at eyes is incredibly dangerous, always get in close enough for a firm ID. I found this out when scanning a field for bunnys using a gun mounted light, picked up eyes at a distance, thought they looked promising, got closer and it tuned out to be two people walking a dog. Totally off any footpath, or open access land. The nearest one around here I heard about was a keeper culling deer, well over a mile from any footpath in an estate wood, spots what appears to be te rear end of a deer sticking out from behind a tree, so works his way in to position, turns out to be a women in a fur coat collecting flowers. The flip side was another keeper sitting in a hedge pondering the lack of pigeons, when a you couple come frolicking throgh the field with the female throwing her clothes off, he did ponder staying put but decided to stand up and wave, they frollicked off elsewhere.
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Reminds me of a large farm I used to work on. One field suddenly started to sprout "crop circles" - areas of flattened crop, and the appearances conincided with sunny saturday afternoons..... The boss decided to catch the culpirt(s) - he thought it may be people rabbiting or the like - and took a run around the field in the landrover..... Flushed out 3 couples in varies levels of undress........and gained some clothes for our local charity shop....
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 lol!
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The OP is seemingly publicising the recent change to the laws over there for hikers to have to wear bright high visibility clothing, to make them all much more highly visible to hunters outdoors in the hunting season; following the incident I reported on here last year, of the young shooter killing the lady hiker whom he mistook for a deer!
Some shooters just don't know much about safety catches use, and making sure of your target and shot before pulling a trigger much over there, apparently. Most shooters likely don't even know basic NSP's I would suspect too sadly. The whole hunting thing over there is more deeply interwoven with gun rights and tradition rather than skill and competence I sometimes tend to think. Before one takes a shot one should always make damned sure what one is shooting at! You better had, because as the saying goes, 'You can't call back a bullet!'
