Man shoots at a moving brown pick-up after mistaking it for a deer:

http://www.goerie.com/news/20171124/ohio-man-shoots-at-brown-truck-he-mistook-for-deer-in-chautauqua-county

And worse:

Woman walking her dog after sunset shot and killed by "hunter."

http://www.goerie.com/news/20171124/chautauqua-county-woman-dies-after-being-shot-by-hunter

I read about the second incident.  Stupid crap I saw hunters do is why finally I gave up hunting except on private land.  This goes beyond stupid.

Being on private land won't stop stupid.  That guy was a) shooting after legal hours and b) failed to identify his target which c) he shouldn't have even been considering a target because a) it was after legal shooting hours. 

What makes you think someone that stupid/ignorant/careless will honor private property rights?  Many are the deer who have been killed with a .22 shot from a car via spotlight on the other side of a private property fence and then been dragged back over/under/through.

Stuff like this makes me nervous. My family has two separate plots of land. One is the home in the suburbs where they live and the other is several acres next to grandma out in the sticks. Because they only go out there every week or couple of weeks, we have had trespassers. Given that it is deer season, I would hate to have anyone (i.e. my family) injured on their own property by some jackass who is illegally hunting there.

People are crazy  .

I read about the second incident.  Stupid crap I saw hunters do is why finally I gave up hunting except on private land.  This goes beyond stupid.

I knew a Texas DPS Trooper years ago that was hunting on private land with his adult nephew who accidentally shot the Trooper in the leg with a 30-06. The Trooper dang near lost his leg and his life before they got EMS out there. It was about a year later before the Trooper recovered enough to go back to work.

My cousin, retired California Fish and Game, tells about arresting a man at the same place on the same animated deer decoy two years in a row.  IIRC it was the same day of the year. 

I don't expect the clueless to act otherwise.  However, like I told my daughter when she was learning to drive and got frustrated at some jerk:  That guy will get someone killed and there is very little you can do about it.  One of your tasks on the road is to minimize the chances that someone is you.

Part of the job of driving is not to let the idiots drive you to do something stupid that puts you and yours at greater risk.

I am a still hunter.  Usually from a tree stand.  About 20 years ago, I was, for a short time, in a deer hunting club that ran Walker hounds.  Yes, deer hunting with dogs is still legal in Mississippi.  We had about 4,000 acres of land under lease from a timber company.

You'd think it would be safe.  But, once the dogs "jump" a deer and the chase is on, those guys get crazy.  It's like a Chinese fire drill (pardon any political incorrectness), with 4x4 vehicles driving like maniacs through those woods roads, trying to get "ahead" of the dogs and get a shot off before the deer and dogs get too deep into the woods, or God forbid, cross out of the 4,000 acres and on the other side of a public road.

It did not take me very long to realize how stupid and dangerous that type of hunting was.   Although most guys were using shotguns with buckshot or slugs, and the shots were invariably in deep woods at almost CQB distances, it was crazy.  Guys were shooting at anything that moved out in front of those dogs.  When I saw them taking does illegally because they didn't have time to identify legal bucks, it was time for me to get out of that club.  And I did.

Now, the thrill of the chase and the sound of a pack of Walkers hot on the trail is undeniably exciting.  But the danger was simply too great.  I'm surprised no one got shot or killed by MVA.  Lots of collisions with trees and overturned vehicles.  Insane.

Mississippi556

Man that was indeed the "wrong crowd" to fall in with!

Over the years I have been in several clubs that ran dogs, none were remotely close to what you described.

Cured me of wanting to run with those boys and helped me appreciate still hunting. 

I still like to hear the dogs run, though.  Just not up close and personal.  Not too crazy, though when a pack of Walkers runs through my little personal 19 acres of paradise.  As the saying goes down here "dogs don't know no trespassing signs," and Walkers can cover a lot of territory very quickly.

Our home is on a hill crest in the middle of the front 4 acres, the barn about half way back to the rear property line.  We don't even go outside behind/below the barn during deer season without full hunter orange on. 

Woman walking her dog after sunset shot and killed by "hunter."

http://www.goerie.com/news/20171124/chautauqua-county-woman-dies-after-being-shot-by-hunter

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Update:

"A hunter who shot and killed a woman he mistook for a deer as she went on an evening walk with her dogs has been indicted on manslaughter charges, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation."


http://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2017/11/hunter_charged_with_felony_for_shooting_wny_woman_out_walking_her_dogs.html