Reply #4: More common with birds ... [View All]

I've heard of it happening with other game animals (and with animals it is otherwise illegal or very difficult to hunt), but mostly with birds ... oh, and fish. I find it really weird that some people who are into fishing go to over-stocked ponds (that is, stocked to the point the fish are starving and will bite a piece of paper thrown on the water or those where the fish become accustomed to being fed from that benevolent big thing above the water) and come away bragging about pulling in a mess of them.

My experience in OK with a lot of hunters is somewhat different. I know a lot of people who hunt deer as food, and it's strange becaue these are the people who do it "properly." They wait for the season to begin, abide by all regulations, and prefer to wander off into the woods and actually track. i.e. hunt, the animal. People who use bows are especially into this. Others wait for the season to begin, stock up on beer and Crown Royal, then wander off into the woods with firearms and stay drunk for a week. The only shooting that goes on tends to be at the air, or the occasional other hunter. Knew a guy who got killed this way.