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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Ice Fishing Safety => Topic started by: fishermantim on Dec 27, 2016, 12:49 PM
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BOSTON - Massachusetts Environmental Police are reminding hunters not to shoot themselves.
An obvious reminder? Maybe. But according to a Facebook post from the agency, a hunter trying to determine ice thickness with the butt of his rifle on Saturday ended up accidentally shooting himself in the chest.
Environmental police say the muzzleloader rifle was loaded and shot the hunter in the chest while the person was testing the surface of the ice.
First-responders were able to stabilize the hunter and minimize blood loss.
Environmental police used the story as a reminder to maintain control over the muzzle of your rifle at all times and keep it pointed in a safe direction.
"A safe direction means that, in the event the firearm discharges, it will not cause injury or damage," the agency wrote in the post.
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Dang ! An attempt to thin the gene pool. :cookoo:
Good rule is ~ Treat every weapon as though a projectile is on it's way out the barrel at all times. Perfect safety is the result of that mind-set. :angel
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I hope he can blame that on alcohol because I don't anybody is that stupid sober.
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Wow.. Can't believe people really do dumb stiff like this
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You would not believe the stupid crap I see during wilderness SAR. Muzzleloader dude is pretty tame compared.to some stuff I've seen.
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I like the stories about the guys who get shot by their dogs.
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Clearly it's the NRA's fault.
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wow :D
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Clearly not the recommended practice for checking the thickness.
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Bummer, and I hope he stays hunting down there in Mass.
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But no one said how thick the ice was, just saying.
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But no one said how thick the ice was, just saying.
Yep, that's how it goes....
(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee417/esox_xtm/Funny%20Stuff/sinking-cars-lake-geneva_zpsopnbttdk.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/esox_xtm/media/Funny%20Stuff/sinking-cars-lake-geneva_zpsopnbttdk.jpg.html)
Last year, Lake Geneva WI
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Yikes!!!
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Gotta be kidding me.
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Cross the "muzzle loader spud bar" off the items to invent list. Does stupidity have any boundaries whatsoever?
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Cross the "muzzle loader spud bar" off the items to invent list. Does stupidity have any boundaries whatsoever?
Ha, it knows no bounds
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But no one said how thick the ice was, just saying.
;D Your too funny. Yeah maybe he should use his car to check the ice next time.
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Yep, that's how it goes....
(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee417/esox_xtm/Funny%20Stuff/sinking-cars-lake-geneva_zpsopnbttdk.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/esox_xtm/media/Funny%20Stuff/sinking-cars-lake-geneva_zpsopnbttdk.jpg.html)
Last year, Lake Geneva WI
YEAH WELL CHECK OUT THE GUY STILL FISHING BY HIS CAR IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE PHOTO.
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Cross the "muzzle loader spud bar" off the items to invent list. Does stupidity have any boundaries whatsoever?
Add a bayonet to muzzle loader and it might work...
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Watched a u tube video couple days ago, bunch of younger guys shooting holes in the ice to check thickness!! Had a 223 a 12 gauge and a couple other rifles, never seen anything so stupid in my life !!
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Offloading a gun on public lake outside of any hunting season and without a proper hunting license is not only illegal but could be obviously deadly like in this case. I can't believe the guy survived a shot in the chest from a muzzle loader.
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He definitely had a lot of luck.
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Add a bayonet to muzzle loader and it might work...
Exactly. His only errors were outfitting his spud improperly and using the wrong end of it. :)
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Darwin's theory in action. I once had a guy ride his four wheeler out to the middle of the lake and ask me how thick the ice was. ::) At least he stopped a reasonable distance from me.
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Clearly it's the NRA's fault.
:roflmao: :thumbsup:
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Pretty sure the cables for that elevator are made of spaghetti :cookoo: :cookoo:
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Cross the "muzzle loader spud bar" off the items to invent list. Does stupidity have any boundaries whatsoever?
:roflmao: