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SC: Four years for hunting accident
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:11 pm
by seamusTX
A South Carolina man pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a hunter in 2008. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
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- Jim
Re: SC: Four years for hunting accident
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:30 pm
by Pete92FS
I don't want to sound ignorant; but 100 yards with a shotgun? I would think that would be out of effective range even for magnum load of buckshot or a rifled slug. I have never deer hunted with a shotgun; only a Remington 30.06.
Re: SC: Four years for hunting accident
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:17 am
by seamusTX
100 yards is usually given as the maximum limit for aimed shots with a shotgun. I don't know from personal experience. That's too far to walk to put up a target.
The poor kid was killed by a single pellet of buckshot. You don't get much worse luck than that.
- Jim
Re: SC: Four years for hunting accident
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:41 am
by DONT TREAD ON ME
Pete92FS wrote:I don't want to sound ignorant; but 100 yards with a shotgun? I would think that would be out of effective range even for magnum load of buckshot or a rifled slug. I have never deer hunted with a shotgun; only a Remington 30.06.
In some states it is only legal to hunt with shotguns.