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Teaching hunting safety rules to youngsters can avoid fatalities such as is likely with young hunter pointing his 16-gauge<br />
pump Remington at his father. Stumble in brush can involuntarily squeeze trigger. Walking abreast in field is advisable.<br />
Getting into habit of protecting trigger from being hit<br />
by 'twigs and accidentally firing is good safety measure.<br />
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it to be. I led him to the highway. A game warden<br />
guarding the dead does, helped me to bind up the wound<br />
just as a state police car slithered through the snow,<br />
skidded to a stop, took the youngster aboard and headed<br />
for the nearest hospital.<br />
The game warden swore long and lustily, and I joined<br />
him. Another hunter appeared, hysterical with anger, car-<br />
rying a rifle with a busted firing mechanism. We didn't<br />
have a chance to ask him what was the trouble. He told us.<br />
"I killed me a buck!" he said, his voice shrill and shaking.<br />
"A nice buck, gents. I gutted the critter and just as I fin-<br />
ished the job three guys came up and claimed the buck<br />
was theirs. I reached for my gun, but one of them grabbed<br />
it, smashed the firing mechanism. Then they roughed me<br />
up considerable. They walked off with my buck, laughing<br />
fit to kill. Ain't a man got any rights at all any more these<br />
days?"<br />
There was another exhibit, too-it was a farmer who<br />
complained that a hunter had killed one of his cows that<br />
morning. It had been his idea the state game commission
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