NH hunter shot while using rope to hoist rifle

[Kadie]

NH hunter shot while using rope to hoist rifle

Saturday, October 31, 2009

(10-31) 18:31 PDT Ossipee, N.H. (AP) --

A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon.

A state conservation officer says a branch or stick apparently got stuck in the trigger of Robert Lapointe's .50-caliber muzzleloader, setting it off at around 1:45 p.m. Saturday.

Mark Hensel of the state Fish and Game Department says the 63-year-old from Somersworth was hunting in Ossipee (AH'-sih-pee) on the first day of muzzleloader deer season.

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Hensel says Lapointe is expected to survive, but "shouldn't have been doing what he did."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/31/national/a165803D41.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0VZPmYNTd

[dysfunctional press]

1. .50 caliber muzzle-loader? i wonder what's left of his hand...

not much, i'm guessing.

[baldguy]

11. Remember that scene in RoboCop?

[geomon666]

27. Effects of said gun on a watermelon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMXc3bdH78g

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. You aren't supposed to tie the rope around the trigger, dumbass!

:dunce:

[Butch350]

37. The trigger caught a branch while he was pulling it up.

[krispos42]

3. Step one

Remove percussion cap.

Step two: climb tree

Step three: hoist rifle

Step four: replace percussion cap.


:banghead:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Almost a Darwin award candidate (nt)

[Jamastiene]

5. That was my first thought too. n/t

[Chemisse]

7. Nope - he's old enough to already had all his children

So if he has a stupid gene, he already passed it on.

[walldude]

32. He can get an honorable mention...

better than nothing.

[MisterP]

6. Cosmo Kramer goes into the woods... nt

[ZombieHorde]

8. Moral of this story: Unload your rifle before doing weird tree shit with it. nt

[Skittles]

9. a hunter who is an idiot

gee there's a stretch

[Vickers]

28. A DUer afeared of guns...there's a cliche!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

29. who is "afeard" of guns?

I was trained to shoot in the military - I just think that people who find shooting animals a swell thing to do FUCKING COWARDS

[Vickers]

30. Just because you were in the service doesn't mean you ain't afeared of guns.

I saw plenty of people at the range who looked skeered out of their skivvies.

:P

[Skittles]

34. but I shoot to this day

target stuff

[Life Long Dem]

33. That makes no sense.

What does courage have to do with the sport of hunting? Who hunts deer because they are afraid of them?

Now if you said one is a coward to use a gun on people, then I'd agree.

[Skittles]

35. it makes a lot of sense

maybe not to YOU

[superduperfarleft]

10. That's a shame he shot himself in the hand. n/t

[pscot]

12. Is there a partial Darwin award

for morons who don't actually succede in removing themselves from the gene pool, but come really close?

[lpbk2713]

13. "Here ... Hold my beer while I ... "

:eyes:

[xchrom]

14. of course if he hadn't been fooling around with a loaded gun in the first place --

he'd have neutered himself with the lawn mower.

[madeline_con]

15. "shot himself in the right hand" ... "is expected to survive"

:eyes:

[NutmegYankee]

17. Depending on how bad the injury is, you could bleed to death.

I figure they just added that to ensure that readers knew he wasn't dead.

[dysfunctional press]

23. it was a .50 caliber muzzle-loader...he may not have a hand left....

(or hand right, depending on which it was :silly: )

[leeroysphitz]

16. f@cking idiot.

[sam sarrha]

18. damn.. that makes my stump hurt thinking about it, i just finished an NRA gun safety class last week

[HughMoran]

19. Dumb ass

After listening to some of these smug fellows up at the bar, I have little sympathy.

[sam sarrha]

20. i have never heard of a double action Black Powder rifle.. did he leave the hammer cocked.?

[pennylane100]

22. Killing creatures for sport,

It is hard to feek sorry for him.

[proteus_lives]

24. How do you know it was primarily for sport?

Many, many hunters eat what they kill.

[pennylane100]

25. Yes, that is true,

it is just that they seem to enjoy it too much.

[proteus_lives]

21. Why would you do something like that and not enjoy it?

It's ok for hunters to be happy with bringing down a deer. They've accomplished something, deer don't walk up to a rifle. People have been celebrating the hunt since the beginning of civilization.

[SPedigrees]

26. For sure. Deer are among the stealthiest of critters & at least as smart as the average hunter,

miles ahead of the dumbass who shot himself in the hand.

[pipi_k]

31. this is just one reason why I hate hunting season out here

I don't have a huge problem with the hunters if they're actually going to eat what they shoot.

And most of them are careful and respect land boundaries.


It's the STUPID ones that scare me.

The ones who get drunk. The ones who light campfires and don't put them out properly. The ones who shoot at anything that moves.

I'm actually afraid to be out on my own property during hunting season, and I'm especially scared to be out during deer season wearing ANYTHING with a touch of white on it (that might look like the white tail of a fleeing deer). There are times when I think I might be shot just going out to get my mail, for crissakes...

[TexasObserver]

36. Dropping a rifle - at a blind, at a fence crossing, going up a tree ...

That is the number one way hunters kill themselves in hunting season.

But putting it on a rope to pull the rifle up barrel first - loaded, with one in the chamber - takes the cake for idiocy.

[Jack_DeLeon]

38. Did this guy never hear of a sling?

strap it to your back then climb to where you are going.