Hunting, what a senseless waste of life…
2 Montana teenagers die in hunting accidents October 25, 2010 6:30 am • Associated Press
GREAT FALLS – Two Montana teenagers died in apparent hunting accidents over the weekend, including a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed by his 14-year-old sister as she was unloading a rifle, authorities said Monday.
The separate shootings happened Saturday, the opening day of hunting season in Montana.
The siblings from Power were on a hunting and camping trip with their father, friends and other family members in the Missouri River Breaks about 70 miles south of Chinook. They had finished hunting for the evening Saturday and the girl was unloading her rifle when it discharged, said Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette.
The 17-year-old boy, who was standing less than five feet away, was shot in the face, Pyette said. He died at the scene.
Police declined to release the names of any people involved.
Also on Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in a separate apparent hunting accident on the Montana Hi-Line near his hometown of Malta.
Logan Wilson separated from his two companions to walk across a field, Phillips County Undersheriff Scott Moran said. After a short while, they went looking for him and called authorities after discovering that he had been shot.
KFBB-TV reported that the preliminary cause of death was listed as an accidental shooting and an investigation is under way.
No other information was immediately available.
Exposing the Big Game 
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW. VIOLENCE LEADS TO VIOLENCE.
That’s the real thrill for these people, to take human lives, most often their own “friends” or family. I believe the vast majority of those “accidents” are no coincidence. Those who enjoy “hunting” are often cold and abusive to their kids and/or spouses, yet patsies for other adults deemed worthy of high regard, often mistakenly there too. Hunters abuse and/or take the lives of helpless innocents to falsely “compensate” for their shortcomings and self-hatred. Only making things worse.
That’s too bad! 🙂
I hope I didn’t spoil your day.
Where was the adult supervision? Too busy taking blind people hunting to watch their kids?
Yep, that’s almost as absurd as video hunting.
This is, in a sense, old news (2010). Probably in one case, the tragedy of one boy is represented by this story:
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/questions-remain-for-family-of-malta-teen-killed-while-hunting/article_c7bbbdd6-fec0-11e0-b6f8-001cc4c002e0.html
Prosecutors finally charged the shooter, and a plea bargain struck, with the shooter on probation and prohibited from hunting or having a firearm–until he’s 21! Why not until he dies? He lied about what happened, he didn’t lead authorities to the body, etc. He is suddenly going to become a responsible adult on his 21st birthday?
Good point! Thanks for the additional info.
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Yet another meaningless loss of life. This time it is human.
Isn’t it interesting how hunting “accidents” are in their own little category? Doesn’t even seem to matter if it was a hunting partner or, like the poor woman who was hanging clothes on her line in her own backyard. Yee Haw! They’ve just approved hunting with rifles in NY from what I understand. Still need to confirm. Those bullets travel up to 2 miles. The nerve to fight FOR rifles when even further jeopardizing others. Well, we know they have no conscience anyway.
To everyone reading this comment, I strongly advise you to try through Netflix, download, or any other kind of DVD rental or purchase, to watch on your DVD player, the 1984 movie “The Stone Boy” starring Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley, and the 1980’s child actor at that time, Jason Presson.
It is about a boy who intended to poach ducks out of season, but unfortunately ends up killing his older brother with a shotgun.
Thanks, I’ll add it to my queue…
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Karma is a bitch
These killings have been termed “senseless” and “meaningless.” I disagree. A hunter dying young means hundreds of innocent lives spared in the future. It’s a meaningful and desireable death. And well-deserved. It is the deaths of the hunters’ intended victims that are senseless, meaningless, and tragic.
Thanks Jim, finally, for some happy news! What could be better to celebrate than two less cretins in the Montana gene pool (well, OK, maybe 2,000 fewer would be better still).
Anytime.
I heard the first few days of hunting season are when most of the accident happened. I was in the backyard heard a couple shots I could feel the pressure and the sound of the bullet go over my head and landed in my neighbor’s home . My girlfriend was riding her horse and a bullet just missed her horse’s head and landed in the tree, we also had a woman who was pregnant that was in her car in a parking lot and got shot in her stomach one guy was driving along the highway and a bullet hit him and killed him and we’re not even in the heavy hunting areas . So all I have to say is better them than me those people are nuts!!!
There are nuts with guns all over this country. When living in a suburban seacoast community in NH, years ago, I was minding my own business, hanging out the wash behind my house. No I wasn’t wearing white…. but I was wearing my hair in two long, dark braids and there was a huge totem pole in front of my house. Two rednecks in a beat up pick up truck came around the corner tossing beer cans out the window. I was going to yell at them and then I saw two guns hanging out the window of the passenger side. Then it was like everything was in slow motion. I locked eyes with the passenger and instinctively dove behind a tree just as the bullet hit the tree! The truck had Massachusetts plates on it. I was pissed off! I don’t plan on being a victim of sicko’s shoot at what ever moves plan! And anyone who has not made the connection between hatred of Native Americans and murders of Spiritual animals, hasn’t been paying attention. It’s weird to look someone in the eyes and have them still shoot at you.
Melody, That had to be a heart stopping second in time that probably felt like it was a lifetime, I know how I felt when that bullet shot over me how your instincts come alive you know something is threatening your life and how my girlfriend and even her horse reacted when the bullet hit the tree. I cannot even imagine what it be like to know that you were the target ! Being exposed to idiots is one thing but be expose to evil this is surely frightening. The part that pisses me off the most is they are rarely caught ,even when they are they have a excuse if you have a gun in your hand and you’re out hunting its okay to injure or kill everything that gets in your way, this turn-of-the-century law really needs to change. Not that it would change any of them, but at least if they have jail time for reckless endangerment would help. Just like the way their attitude is towards Native Americans the wolves or anybody that doesn’t think their way they think its okay to do what they do and somehow they seem to get away with it, if any of us had their mindset and showed how much we despise them we would go buy a hunting license and go out and kill them.