Here’s one with a happy ending for all…
Sheep photo copyright Jim Robertson
http://www.adn.com/2013/08/15/3025570/anchorage-sheep-hunter-rescued.html#storylink=cpy
The Associated Press August 15, 2013
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A 56-year-old Anchorage man injured in a rafting accident near Delta Junction was rescued by the Alaska Air National Guard.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Mike Vogel was on a sheep hunting trip Tuesday and rafting on the Gerstle River. He came out of the raft and was dragged behind it.
Vogel suffered broken ribs and a severed finger.
His hunting partner, 62-year-old Melvin Iler of Oregon, set up a fire and shelter for Vogel and then hiked 15 miles to the Alaska Highway, where he summoned help.
An Air National Guard helicopter found Vogel at 8:45 p.m.
He was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and treated for serious injuries.
The Air Guard says pilots had to contend with wildfire smoke limiting visibility to less than a mile.
Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com
Exposing the Big Game 
Kudos to the 62 year old partner who hiked to get help. Now, THAT’S a friend worth keeping.
…except that he’s a trophy sheep hunter.
no kudos to this guy-not a friend to the sheep
Peak inside the mind of individuals who will go to all of this work, time, and money simply to “enjoy” the feeling they get from killing something. People whose minds allow them to cause pain and death without empathy, compassion, or remorse, people whose minds demand that they KILL other sentient beings to gain a feeling of pleasure, make up 4% of the population but they cause 96% of the pain.
…and they are known as psychopaths.
Let’s hope it was his trigger finger that was severed. Too bad it wasn’t his head.
Agreed!
Although I realize that it is uncharitable to say, this sounds like a waste of public money to me. Live by the sword, die by the sword? Chalk one up for the sheep.
More proof that they aren’t really willing to challenge nature on her own terms.
Exactly. I’ve often been in discussions with hunters who use the ‘we’re just part of the natural cycle’ argument … except, in every case, when it comes to their own well-being. I think I’ve mentioned it here previously but I’ll never forget that article from a couple of years ago where a deer hunter was attacked by a deer he’d shot and thought was dead. He described it as “15 seconds of hell,” with no sense of irony at all about how many “seconds” of hell he’d caused an infinite number of non-human animals. Strong and self-assured people don’t need to prove their worth through violence and cruelty.
Great last line Ingrid.
One would think that these revolting men are getting a bit old for slaughtering someone in the woods…Did they ever hear of rocking chairs, a good book and a nice cup of tea? Listen to some classical music? Meditate? Feel the cool breeze and look at the scenery? Take a stroll? What compels people to shatter things with bullets?
Good questions Denderah. Maybe that’s why they were hunting sheep and not grizzly bears.