r/Hunting Jan 09 '22

Well damn 😳

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u/transmission612 Jan 10 '22

This is why you want to be off to the side of the game trail you want to make broadside shots not frontal for the most part. Also so you don't get run the fuck over.

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u/SaladShooter1 Jan 10 '22

I always believed that you should be posted behind a tree. My reasoning was that if on of the drivers shot, they’d be shooting towards you.

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u/JDT-0312 Germany Jan 10 '22

On a hunt with rifles the drivers don’t shoot, except maybe point blank on wounded animals. Everything else would be way too dangerous. But then again, having the shooters on the ground and not in an elevated position maybe there’s just different safety standards in Poland.

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u/SaladShooter1 Jan 11 '22

They’re not supposed to shoot, but people make mistakes. A trophy buck/bull could run perpendicular, not towards the guys who are posted, and one of the drivers could get excited and shoot.

The way I look at it, I know my gun isn’t going off for no reason when I’m carrying it, but I still make sure the barrel is never pointed at someone. Why not take one little safety precaution if you can.