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Show Warned? - Oh Yes! But Still They Shoot! On the opening day of tho deer hunting season. Dean Powell and his son, Richard, were hunting on Squaw Creek Ridie, in the Farm Creek area, when they had a very narrow escape at the hands of a careless hunter. It was about mid-day when Mr. Powell and Richard decided decid-ed to eat their lunch. They dismounted their horses and sat down beside them. Very shortly a shot rang out and Mr. Powell's horse fell dead, so close to the men that they had to scramble desperately to escape him as he toppled over and rolled down the hilt. Mr. Powell and Richard jumped to their feet threw their hands into the air and shouted, lest the hunter repeat the action. At first the hunter started to run, but, reconsidering, reconsider-ing, turned and came to the scene of the accident. Mr. Powell remarked to the man that he had made a good shot. "I sure did," he replied. "I aimed right for his heart, and it's a good thing that you men didn't move or it miiht have been you." J The puzzle is, said Mr. Powell, why a man equipped with binoculars and a rifle with a scope, should take a deadly aim at a sorrel horse with a saddle on, or at the men, who wore red caps and red shirts, just because they moved. How are we going to educate edu-cate hunters to the extent that they are not going to shoot at any and everything that moves, regardless of size or color? Through the careless action of a thoughtless hunter, Mr. Powell lost a valuable saddle horse and had the inconvenience inconven-ience of walking eUht to ten miles encumbered by a heavy saddle and bridle. Surely such accidents, which seemingly, could be avoided, should be a warning to hunters to be sure that they know what they are shooting at before they fire a gun, Mr. Powell said in relating the incident. |