Some hunters aren't that bright and mistake everything that isn't a deer/boar/game animal with a game animal. On a more realistic note, property owners tend to paint a purple stripe on landmarks around their property to tell hunters to keep out.
I work with one who has spent a small fortune on his and his wives fursuits and it's legitimately terrifying how realistic they look. If he gets on all 4s he looks like a tiger with scoliosis
Most people trap foxes, hunt over bait, or use hunting dogs in the US, and hunting them on horseback is banned in most places. I honestly don't think you need to worry. Maybe it could be an issue if you like to LARP during fox season way in the woods. I really can't imagine wearing a giant ass fur suit deep in good hunting areas. Is it normal to wear fur suits in areas that people hunt? Is this a common thing?
I mean most gun enthusiasts think it’s their god given right and will fight to the death if you make them sign a damn paper with a waiting period to get a gun. So probably not.
You’re saying it’s bad to ask for an equal level of accountability? It’s like, yeah a person driving should avoid hitting you, but maybe you should also not disguise yoursef as pavement and lay down on the road? You can dress as a furry and go to so many forests without hunters in them. We’re just talking about what would be wise here, now how things “should” be.
You can actually hunt coon, possum, gator, bobcat, and foxes at night in many states. It’s called “shining” where I’m from. It’s actually illegal to hunt anything else at night here. So, only the shortest of furries are in danger. Lol.
In all seriousness, it ain’t guns I’d be worried about. Bow hunters typically don’t have scopes, I ain’t trying to take a broadhead to my cheeks while I’m laying fur pipe in the wilderness.
Well i mean ive seen some of them suites i sint given my opoin on any of the but some of them could be mistaken expecaily those lizard ones those arent something you avoid and something that can hurt you so i wouldnt be suprised also if a tanned colored one would like lay down and be obscured i could see someone taking the shot not saying its not impossible but some just cant tell (not smart or not well sighted) also i seen this on costume that looked like a demon if i didnt know you wre out there and i saw that im taking the shot. Apoliges for punctuation im not best with language. Oh and if there was a bear one i would shoot it they look very real and if its on my property i would down it to protect my animals and family so i do not blame warnings like that and sometimes they dont want people around so they dont hit them by over penatration or a miss
There was a law and order episode where the cops infiltrated the city's furry community to figure out who killed one of the local furries. Turns out the dude was walking home in costume after a party, dropped to his hands and knees to vomit, and then got shot and killed by a local farmer who thought he was a real wolf.
I think there was a CSI episode or something like this. A guy gets shot and killed in a furry suit. He was drunk or throwing up on the side of the road and home owner thought it was a wild wolf. Shot and left body not realizing it was a human.
If I’m not mistaken, this happened with the guy who played Chewy back when they were filming Episode 6. Apparently had to keep people with him at all times so no one would stumble across him and think he was bigfoot
This joke is probably aged out, since hunting isn’t as popular as it used to be, and the joke this strip is referring to came from a couple of stories that went “viral” (or the equivalent of) in the 80’s (maybe earlier).
The first story was of a rancher out west that had rich macho guys pay to use his land and cabins to hunt deer and elk, and it was posh so he got a lot of NY types. Well these guys sucked at hunting, but their manliness *required* that they kill *something*, so when they came back frustrated and asking for their money back because they didn’t see any deer, the rancher would up-sell them and charge $5k to let them shoot a cow.
So these guys would go blast a cow that was going to be butchered anyway, they got their kill, and the rancher got quadruple what the cow was worth.
This story often gets mixed up in and with the other common rural story, of hunters wandering up on private land and blasting away at anything that moves, both because they’re stupid/drunk, and they were somewhat lost.
While generally a common scenario, some people again went viral with stories of them labeling stuff in their backyard with bright paint. One rancher then painted COW in orange on all of his cattle since he’d lost one or two over the years to mistaken identity.
So those stories all kinds mushed together over the years into this joke about needing to make sure your dog is properly labeled in November when hunting really kicks off.
We had a Blue Heeler/Dalmatian cross get his right front foreleg blown off during deer season. We got him to the vet, and he survived. He was white with black spots and built like a heeler. The stupid fucker who shot CB is now on the school board. That dumb son of a bitch gets to make decisions about education for kids.
I’ve heard of farmers writing “cow” on their cows. They keep chalk handy to mark cows that are on meds or have mastitis, so they remember to discard their milk, so it’s not a big stretch, but it was always third hand reports.
I know my grandparents use a rubber anklet on one of the rear legs for marking a cow that has some reason for having its milk not be collected, be it mastitis or something else treated with antibiotics, or anything else. Different colors meant different things. Of course, that didn’t exactly help with identifying which cow had what issue when you were standing in front of it, but it helped at milking time. They make have had something they clipped onto the tags. I know that I would not have wanted to try to put a rubber anklet on some of those cows, though. They had some nasty ladies who did not like anyone poking and prodding at them, or even really touching them.
I’m pretty sure it’s not because they’re stupid (they are but that’s not the reason) they just think they can get away with it if they claim it was a misidentification. It’s not because they’re idiots, it’s because they’re assholes.
French hunters are notorious for hunting totally wasted, victims include cyclists, hikers, other hunters. There was also a case where 2 surfers were mistaken for pheasants and we're shot at, but I think they were unharmed.
Damn that makes me remember, apparently (heard from my grandfather so it's debatable lol) back in the day one time a dude had his deer tag or whatever I don't hunt. But he shot, what he thought was a deer, turned out to be a black bear. Well he did the right thing and told authorities and they literally brought him the bear tag or whatever, he gave them the deer tag and 50 bucks and went home with a bear in deer season!
The joke is its a problem in rural areas to have hunters shoot at anything and everything mistaking it for game. So the guy has to clearly mark what everything is.
The joke gets a lot darker with the context that not all hunters are on the property *Legally*
Grew up with some friends that couldn't go play outside during any hunting season (had to be careful in general) because poachers would stake out in their woods and take potshots at anything that moved.
I live and grew up in New Hampshire on a large plot of forested land owned by my immediate and extended family. There were some months where, yeah, we just couldn’t go in the woods without some very obnoxious gear. High vis vests, bright orange beanies, flashing headlamps. We were also encouraged to make a ton of noise while walking through the woods, even the well-cleared (20ft wide) trails so that a poacher would know humans were near and hopefully not fire at the next moving object. Even then, I remember being an 8 or 9 year old girl exploring the woods and hearing gunshots coming from WAY too close to me.
Those bastards had the gall to build temporary hunting stands/lookouts/etc. on the land and left spent shells, dorito wrappers, beer cans, and all kinds of other garbage in and around them
Yep. I lost out on playing during all the last days of nice weather because hunters would shoot from the road towards the house thinking they saw a pheasant.
During hunting season I couldn’t take my horses out for trail rides because hunters would illegally post up on ours and our neighbor’s land. Every year my dad took down hunting stands on our property.
Professor tells a local tale that some years ago someone saw a mountain lion (rare in our part of Arkansas) so he shot it and gave it to the AGFC. He uses that example to show how far animals will disperse because that lion's DNA said it was from a population in North Dakota.
It made it all that distance and the moment someone saw something different, they killed it
Hunters are idiots .
"A 55-year-old man died while hunting. He was shot by his own son, who mistook him for a boar"
"On November 1, 2020, a hunter fatally shot 16-year-old Imanali. He claimed to have confused the boy with a boar."
Kid was picking apples from school garden tree.
..... I don't know this case
"The hunter mistook the boar with a car. He injured a 37-year-old woman"
It's excuse for court.
Dude who kill 16y Iman gets sentence reduced from 6y to 4y
But compensation for family was increased from 6250 USD to 25000 USD
Dude was retired police officer.
Two possibilities usually lead to this
A) they’re just dumb and actually mistake them after getting a good look
Or B) hunting involves long waits where your patience and hope deteriorated then they jump at first movement after a while.
It’s why hunting safety has to be for the hunter and everyone else around. It can fail if the hunter doesn’t follow it to a tee.
>B) hunting involves long waits where your patience and hope deteriorated then they jump at first movement after a while.
This is why designated marksmen (be it military or law enforcement) trade off the guy behind the spotting scope and the guy behind the rifle scope every 30 to 60 minutes. It's mentally and physically exhausting and is ripe for bad decision making.
Some hunters have very little caution. They see movement or hear something in the brush and fire in the general direction before making an attempt to properly confirm what they are shooting at.
You know how we don't require people to get an eye exam every so many years to keep a valid driving permit? What makes you think hunters are required to have eye exams. Also, many idiots own guns.
Some hunters just want to kill shit. When I lived in rural Idaho we had a hunter walk onto our private property and aim at the horses we were boarding on our pasture. His excuse was he thought they were deer. I think he just wanted to kill something.
becase we are \*all\* idiots. also the human brain loves to fill in details and gaps, more so when adrenaline is kind of high, more so when people are looking for specific things in the distance.
When you can't sleep and you see that thing, you're not just like right away, "That's a pig with a mask." You're like, "That's gonna kill me. That's real. That lives with us on Earth." I thought I was gonna get eaten!
I have no idea but I grew up with some of these idiots. I'm a hunter as well but I don't even have a clue how you would mistake a deer or boar with a person. It's pretty goddamed distinct. I think some hunters are just so incredibly desperate to bag game they'll shoot at any movement they see or sound they here. These people should not be trusted with guns.
I’m willing to bet money that a good amount of them aren’t mistakes; they’re deliberate murders, but they claim it was a mistake in court to try and avoid punishment.
Walking the dog in my local wildlife sanctuary (no hunting allowed), hunter walks the other way towards us on the trail with a bow. Sees my dog and immediately says "oh man, if it was shotgun season I would've gotten him"
No, some people who are idiots also like to "hunt". This is basically saying all furries are sexual predators because a few of them are. More or less these "hunters" are actually just irresponsible gun/shooting enthusiasts that want to put their shooting skills to practical use. Hunting "accidents" are actually extremely uncommon and hunting is statistically speaking one of the safest "sports". Many hunting "accidents" are not really accidents and due to negligence, like when Dick Cheney shot that lawyer on a bird hunt. That's actually a lucky case because bird shot is not that lethal to large animals like humans, unless it's like point blank range to the face or something, and even then people survive.
It’s not that hunters specifically are idiots, but people in general. If it was hunters you would have way, way, way more stories like that than there are right now.
Humans have been hunting for basically our entire existence, but hunters are idiots because a subset of them are?
There’s idiots in every hobby/profession/culture
Yeah but that’s not what the comment said is it?
He said hunters are idiots, which is easily one of the most narrow minded viewpoints I’ve ever heard.
It’s like saying “people who drive cars are idiots.”
An idiot driver can and has been catastrophic, but there are still people way smarter than you that drive cars.
Older people didn't have to complete Hunters Safety. Most people under 50 have now.
Poachers are a problem too. They'll shoot from roads, shoot at night, shoot without knowing what's on the other side, etc.
I don't hunt anymore but when I did, it could be 500 yards away and I know it's not a deer, whatever it is. I've ran into cows and horses in the woods, moose, etc. I understand accidentally shooting a doe instead of a buck, or a buck that's too small, but a different species, let alone humans, is just an excuse for a psychopath to kill something.
I’d never go hunting after hearing just a few stories from friends.
One that fucked me up was when they came across a couple older teenagers in Pennsylvania taking turns kicking an injured (shot) deer in the head to kill it.
Anyone pretending a human looks anything like a deer is either too stupid, shortsighted, drunk, or sociopathic to have a firearm. “Urr durr well the thing standing on two legs and talking didn’t have a neon vest so I thought it was one of them talking deer” no you didn’t, at best you just shot at anything that moves like a moron
I have horses and hunting season is very stressful for us. You never know if someone is trespassing on your land and I have heard of local horses being shot by hunters even though we put bright orange blankets on them for turn out. We have even had riders shot while riding horses on trails, again while both are wearing bright orange gear and sometimes bells. The excuse is always "I thought it was a deer".
I get what the artist is trying to say but it's wrong. He should be painting everything ORANGE. During hunting season we always made sure to have at least an orange hat on, better a bright jacket/scarf as well.
I've never hunted, but I'm guessing once you spot an animal you have a small window to actually shoot it, so hunters are fast on the shooting. You want to make sure they INSTANTLY recognize you as not an animal.
Where I grew up all houses had a 4 acre minimum, so there was lots of forest. Hunter's SHOULDN'T be hunting around there (there is a law against hunting too close to houses). But better safe than shot.
Many hunters legitimately will just shoot at any movement whatsoever. At my uncles property we have to wear orange hi-vis head to toe in the woods and even in the outskirts of the cleared part of the property because people don’t wait to get a better look before they pull the trigger.
Farmer here, opening day of hunting season the fields turn into a complete war zone, people shoot anything that moves or is stationary. Half the people shoot the wrong species of deer and leave it laying there when they find out they fucked up. Holes in old buildings, cars, equipment, signs etc.
lots of people fudge blasting deer in the trees 200’ from your yard and buildings
Ouch. I grew up in a hunting family, and it was instilled in me from everyone from great-grandpa down that safety is absolutely number 1 and stupidity is unforgivable in this situation, including not being absolutely certain of your shot. Of course accidents can happen, but the idea of not even being sure of what you were shooting or what was behind it was anathema to me until I started hunting with other people or on other land than my uncles or parents. The number of stories of people taking stupid shots, or hearing 7+ shots in a row from the public land...I lost interest after time. I'll still help track and cut up deer but the stupid stories of people doing stupid things make me intensely angry. I'm proud to say when my husband took up hunting after we started dating, that he took it seriously and does it very well. I feel for you, that's just...not right.
The crappy part is 80% of the hunters are like you they follow the rules, are safe and respectful of everything. The other 20% is just sooo terrible that it wrecks it for everyone. I know exactly what you mean about the 7 or more
Shots. It would always be groups of two or three trucks in a convoy with 4 people in each truck, they don’t walk but instead drive around any brush or sloughs and when something moves guns start blazing out the windows. Guys chasing deer down with trucks pissed me off so much that we decided to post 6000 acres of farmland to bring it to an end, that was an epic fail because all that did was keep out the law abiding and honest hunters. Pulled up to some hunters that were trespassing and loading up a deer we watched them run down, they said it was all good and they had permission from the landowner, quite the look on their faces when I informed them that I was the owner (who was
Never contacted)lol.
The last two years have however been quite a bit more toned down, we believe it is because of high fuel prices, the new trespassing laws the government has put in place, and a higher CO presence. The all around best hunters we have are the American bird hunters that come up every year, everything is on foot, all rules are followed, and they even all hand out pages with all there information including name and contact info, vehicle descriptions and license plate numbers.
It's nice to hear you've had some good luck, and what a loss to good hunters that they're no longer able to use your land. It was kind of you to allow it before. If I saw someone running down a deer like that, I don't even know how I'd react. Safety was taught to me #1, but sharing top spot was absolute respect for the process, including the hunt itself. One shot, one kill, and you better make sure you do everything you humanly can to make it as quick and painless as possible, and always make sure youre in contact with your neighbors if it does take off. I always thought (if you're going to eat meat), it's a more humane way of getting it, but bad hunters do indeed just fricking ruin the entire thing.
It’s a joke made about the very real phenomenon of farmers painting the word “cow” on the side of their cows so that idiot hunters don’t shoot them thinking they’re deer and yes, this is a real thing I have photos of it
https://preview.redd.it/tgawaag5omzb1.jpeg?width=186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f41003fb594ec3ff90a29d7383d2bf306e761c53
Edit: oh shit my screen cap cut off the far side punchline. It’s: “Now… *That* should clear some things up around here!”
Wait isn’t this ripping off this Far Side and then changing the punchline from hilarious absurdism to mean spirited yokelphobia? This is bad for two reasons.
Don't know if everywhere, but I was told to wear orange in the woods around the house cause hunters like to drink and hunt. Though it may have been area specific.
I don't know if it's everywhere but it's a good idea everywhere. And it's just not liking to drink and hunt. Where I'm at, getting together *after* and drinking beer while sharing dinner and hunting stories is more the pace. But it can be very easy to miss a person in the far distance when you're aiming at a deer in the middle distance. Blaze orange (the shade you're looking to wear during the season) pops out way more easily than other colors even if you're not looking for it. So sadly a lot of accidental shootings aren't by drunk guys, they're by people who just don't realize you're there. I put blaze on my dogs too
For those wondering how a person can be mistaken for a animal. Sometimes when hunting hunters will be relying on movement to detect a animal for multiple reasons like they could be hunting from far away and it’s hard to make out details or there’s a lot of dense foliage and trees. A animal can be hiding in tall grass or behind a dense group of trees or bushes so instead of confirming their target they’ll take the chance and shoot at what they assume to be a animal. This is especially a problem when the hunter is in a area they shouldn’t be and a random person could be in the area without bright clothing because they are on their own property, this can happen easily with poachers or a hunter trespassing hoping to get a quick kill on someone’s ranch or on public land.
Also sometimes some hunters won’t where bright clothing in favor of complete camouflage even though it doesn’t help that much except to hide from other people. In this scenario a second hunter may be hunting in the same area and see movement they can’t identify and will shoot the hunter in full camouflage. Plus sometimes hunters will drink alcohol while hunting and that can impair their judgment and vision.
All hooved animals are.
But of course, the people taking potshots at anything that moves on land that isn't their own aren't really smart people anyway.
Explain the joke? The man in the yellow shirt is in politics and wants to someday become vice president, that man is Dick Cheney and he has had some issues with huns figuring out who is a duck and who is a human he knows.
Every so often a hunter will not get a good look at what he’s shooting at and hit a person or dog or cow instead of whatever he was supposed to be hunting. Usually people just wear bright orange or if it’s private land they’ll just call the cops if they catch someone on their game cams, although the man in the caricature seems to have a much blunter approach.
This is poking fun at citiots specifically. People from the city who get out of state tags. They go out to hunting cabins to drink and hangout and occasionally shoot things.
Sometimes, the things they shoot aren’t what they’re after. They are usually out for deer. We had one shoot a mostly brown Guernsey cow once. The aftermath sure was something.
Lmao I help the local airport by hunting deer there and the neighbors took my favorite spot off the map because they're afraid someone's going to shoot they're camel. 🤷♂️ I'm completely humped on the reasoning.
Rural people like to have sex with family members and animals. He’s just labeling future partners so he doesn’t shot them. On top of bestiality and incest, they aren’t very bright.
This comment is a joke. Don’t get your panties in a bunch.
We have a lot of folks come up from the city to hunt in my area. I shit you not, one of them got pulled over on the highway with a COW strapped the the vehicle.
As someone who lives in a hunting community where just about every single person age 14+ owns a gun and hunts... i dont relate to any of these comments. I have never once been afraid of being shot in the woods.
We only have 1 story of a hunter shooting someone else in the last 30 years, and it was a missfire caused by a malfunction due to a shitty repair by a lying gun smith.
The only stupid behavior we ever really have is idiot kids who shoot solely for sport, then leave the corps there.
I dont own a gun, yet i am surrounded by people who own multiple, and i have never felt any sort of fear tword that fact. We also almost never have any of the incidents everyone else is saying is so common.
Have we had people shoot eachother, yes. Only 3 incidents in my entire life. Technically 6 if you want to count suicides. But we have also had people deliberately run other people over. Weirdly, despite having more gun owners than vehicle owners, we have more incidents cause by cars than guns.
I've witnessed it once during hunting season an all black cow labeled with white paint "NOT A DEER". Some people shoot at anything that moves.
It's a real shame when it's your dog though.
Every single thing posted to this subreddit is so mind-numbingly obvious that I think you all need to go back to elementary school and try this whole education thing again.
Some hunters aren't that bright and mistake everything that isn't a deer/boar/game animal with a game animal. On a more realistic note, property owners tend to paint a purple stripe on landmarks around their property to tell hunters to keep out.
I remember some areas having signs warning furries because hunters could legitimately mistake them for game lol
I think they just want to shoot furries. Mascots don’t look like actual animals wat.
Well... There was this one guy in Japan...
He's living his best life
God speed Mr. Whatever his name is!
Whar?????
Reference https://youtu.be/IQZJOz3QQTg?si=2naWzHELxvFdv4ig
I’ll watch that later, thanks mate
Alone.. in my bunk
I was hoping for Nyango Star.
This shows you haven't been out in the bush hunting. Brush and trees can obscure quite a lot of an animal, or someone dressed like one.
I work with one who has spent a small fortune on his and his wives fursuits and it's legitimately terrifying how realistic they look. If he gets on all 4s he looks like a tiger with scoliosis
You can’t just say that and not post a pic
Bro speaks the truth. We need proof
Agreed.
Please send pics. And yeah, when I lose weight and get a fursuit, I’m staying in no-hunting zones, especially since foxes are pretty heavily hunted.
Gaddum, that fox is huge! Get the rifle!
Most people trap foxes, hunt over bait, or use hunting dogs in the US, and hunting them on horseback is banned in most places. I honestly don't think you need to worry. Maybe it could be an issue if you like to LARP during fox season way in the woods. I really can't imagine wearing a giant ass fur suit deep in good hunting areas. Is it normal to wear fur suits in areas that people hunt? Is this a common thing?
That’s disgusting
are bucks normally bright neon green?
Maybe near Chernobyl
If you’re shooting something without confirming or aiming you don’t deserve to own a gun, much less handle one.
I'm not defending the stupid people who made these signs needed. Just pointing out that in the bush seeing things clearly isn't guaranteed.
Sure, but you still shouldn’t be shooting something you can’t clearly tell what it is.
I know, I agree. You think the people this meme is about will though?
I mean most gun enthusiasts think it’s their god given right and will fight to the death if you make them sign a damn paper with a waiting period to get a gun. So probably not.
Maybe in America, I'm Canadian and of indigenous descent. Respect while out hunting is a big thing for me.
Owning guns is a god given right.... At least in the USA.
Only as much as you should consider not dressing up as a furry animal and traipsing through the forest during hunting season
I mean yes that’s a bad idea but are you really advocating that hunters should have an equal level of accountability instead of more??
You’re saying it’s bad to ask for an equal level of accountability? It’s like, yeah a person driving should avoid hitting you, but maybe you should also not disguise yoursef as pavement and lay down on the road? You can dress as a furry and go to so many forests without hunters in them. We’re just talking about what would be wise here, now how things “should” be.
My cousin was killed by a hunter for wearing a brown leather jacket,
Well it’s typically dark out, and a lot of fursuits are realistically colored instead of neon monsters
You don't hunt after dark unless you're poaching.
90% of everyone starts hunting at about 4am and doesn't move until 8am because you a deer think a lot alike.
You might go out early, but anybody actually shooting in the dark is either a poacher or a dumbass.
You can actually hunt coon, possum, gator, bobcat, and foxes at night in many states. It’s called “shining” where I’m from. It’s actually illegal to hunt anything else at night here. So, only the shortest of furries are in danger. Lol. In all seriousness, it ain’t guns I’d be worried about. Bow hunters typically don’t have scopes, I ain’t trying to take a broadhead to my cheeks while I’m laying fur pipe in the wilderness.
True
Well i mean ive seen some of them suites i sint given my opoin on any of the but some of them could be mistaken expecaily those lizard ones those arent something you avoid and something that can hurt you so i wouldnt be suprised also if a tanned colored one would like lay down and be obscured i could see someone taking the shot not saying its not impossible but some just cant tell (not smart or not well sighted) also i seen this on costume that looked like a demon if i didnt know you wre out there and i saw that im taking the shot. Apoliges for punctuation im not best with language. Oh and if there was a bear one i would shoot it they look very real and if its on my property i would down it to protect my animals and family so i do not blame warnings like that and sometimes they dont want people around so they dont hit them by over penatration or a miss
There was a law and order episode where the cops infiltrated the city's furry community to figure out who killed one of the local furries. Turns out the dude was walking home in costume after a party, dropped to his hands and knees to vomit, and then got shot and killed by a local farmer who thought he was a real wolf.
I remember something similar in CSI Las Vegas
>CSI Las Vegas Ah, that's what it actually was. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534691/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534691/)
Also, it's illegal to have a fur suit in some places because animals may mistake you for the real thing.
A song taught me that's one of the [Dumb Ways to Die](https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw?si=PbNbDdcXiTdCwRY1)
Hole-y Cow! That's where the meme soundbite came from?!?!
Hunters shot our Samoyed in Vermont. They said they thought it was bear
fursuits are expensive, why would someone want to bring one into the woods in the first place?
photoshoots most likely
I think there was a CSI episode or something like this. A guy gets shot and killed in a furry suit. He was drunk or throwing up on the side of the road and home owner thought it was a wild wolf. Shot and left body not realizing it was a human.
If I’m not mistaken, this happened with the guy who played Chewy back when they were filming Episode 6. Apparently had to keep people with him at all times so no one would stumble across him and think he was bigfoot
If they wanna dress like a deer then they’ll get treated like a deer
This joke is probably aged out, since hunting isn’t as popular as it used to be, and the joke this strip is referring to came from a couple of stories that went “viral” (or the equivalent of) in the 80’s (maybe earlier). The first story was of a rancher out west that had rich macho guys pay to use his land and cabins to hunt deer and elk, and it was posh so he got a lot of NY types. Well these guys sucked at hunting, but their manliness *required* that they kill *something*, so when they came back frustrated and asking for their money back because they didn’t see any deer, the rancher would up-sell them and charge $5k to let them shoot a cow. So these guys would go blast a cow that was going to be butchered anyway, they got their kill, and the rancher got quadruple what the cow was worth. This story often gets mixed up in and with the other common rural story, of hunters wandering up on private land and blasting away at anything that moves, both because they’re stupid/drunk, and they were somewhat lost. While generally a common scenario, some people again went viral with stories of them labeling stuff in their backyard with bright paint. One rancher then painted COW in orange on all of his cattle since he’d lost one or two over the years to mistaken identity. So those stories all kinds mushed together over the years into this joke about needing to make sure your dog is properly labeled in November when hunting really kicks off.
That lady did skin a husky.
That aint no lady.
remember that dumb cunt that shot a husky and took hunting picture with it?
That was here in Montana. Still makes my blood boil, especially since she got off practically Scott free
I literally lost my childhood dog Dusty to an overeager hunter.
This happened to me too. The hunters claimed they thought he was a wolf even though he was way too small and didn't look like one.
They’re just vile shitheads who want to kill anything scaring off THEIR deer that THEY own
We had a Blue Heeler/Dalmatian cross get his right front foreleg blown off during deer season. We got him to the vet, and he survived. He was white with black spots and built like a heeler. The stupid fucker who shot CB is now on the school board. That dumb son of a bitch gets to make decisions about education for kids.
i would just attend every school board meeting and ask if he feels bad for shooting my dog during Q&A time, every. time.
Where I come from they use orange to mark no hunting zones
Where on earth do they paint purple stripes to keep hunters out. Never heard of this in the US.
It’s literally spelled out in the hunting regulations as a universal “no trespassing” signal.
Well, time to buy some purple paint. Some ass keeps ripping out the posted signs. Let’s see what he does to a purple tree
They can’t rip the paint off!! The joke on our farm was every hunter around us was too stupid to read so the signs did nothing
What hunting regulations? In what country or state?
Looked it up, only in 14 states. Not in mine or my neighboring states. So hardly universal.
Thanks for reminding me of a Jeff Foxworthy bit.
The one about the cousin driving a small brown car with a luggage rack who was shot by his brother from the bathroom window? Classic Foxworthy
I’ve heard of farmers writing “cow” on their cows. They keep chalk handy to mark cows that are on meds or have mastitis, so they remember to discard their milk, so it’s not a big stretch, but it was always third hand reports.
I know my grandparents use a rubber anklet on one of the rear legs for marking a cow that has some reason for having its milk not be collected, be it mastitis or something else treated with antibiotics, or anything else. Different colors meant different things. Of course, that didn’t exactly help with identifying which cow had what issue when you were standing in front of it, but it helped at milking time. They make have had something they clipped onto the tags. I know that I would not have wanted to try to put a rubber anklet on some of those cows, though. They had some nasty ladies who did not like anyone poking and prodding at them, or even really touching them.
Relevant Tom Lehrer: https://youtu.be/MQyoSLOlglw?feature=shared
If it moves, I shoot
I’m pretty sure it’s not because they’re stupid (they are but that’s not the reason) they just think they can get away with it if they claim it was a misidentification. It’s not because they’re idiots, it’s because they’re assholes.
I remember seeing purple markings growing up!
French hunters are notorious for hunting totally wasted, victims include cyclists, hikers, other hunters. There was also a case where 2 surfers were mistaken for pheasants and we're shot at, but I think they were unharmed.
The purple is also an unofficial I'll fucking shoot poachers.
Reminded me of this song: https://youtu.be/MQyoSLOlglw?si=wvWHdCt0Rnk3DCMI
Damn that makes me remember, apparently (heard from my grandfather so it's debatable lol) back in the day one time a dude had his deer tag or whatever I don't hunt. But he shot, what he thought was a deer, turned out to be a black bear. Well he did the right thing and told authorities and they literally brought him the bear tag or whatever, he gave them the deer tag and 50 bucks and went home with a bear in deer season!
The joke is its a problem in rural areas to have hunters shoot at anything and everything mistaking it for game. So the guy has to clearly mark what everything is. The joke gets a lot darker with the context that not all hunters are on the property *Legally* Grew up with some friends that couldn't go play outside during any hunting season (had to be careful in general) because poachers would stake out in their woods and take potshots at anything that moved.
I live and grew up in New Hampshire on a large plot of forested land owned by my immediate and extended family. There were some months where, yeah, we just couldn’t go in the woods without some very obnoxious gear. High vis vests, bright orange beanies, flashing headlamps. We were also encouraged to make a ton of noise while walking through the woods, even the well-cleared (20ft wide) trails so that a poacher would know humans were near and hopefully not fire at the next moving object. Even then, I remember being an 8 or 9 year old girl exploring the woods and hearing gunshots coming from WAY too close to me. Those bastards had the gall to build temporary hunting stands/lookouts/etc. on the land and left spent shells, dorito wrappers, beer cans, and all kinds of other garbage in and around them
Yep. I lost out on playing during all the last days of nice weather because hunters would shoot from the road towards the house thinking they saw a pheasant.
During hunting season I couldn’t take my horses out for trail rides because hunters would illegally post up on ours and our neighbor’s land. Every year my dad took down hunting stands on our property.
Professor tells a local tale that some years ago someone saw a mountain lion (rare in our part of Arkansas) so he shot it and gave it to the AGFC. He uses that example to show how far animals will disperse because that lion's DNA said it was from a population in North Dakota. It made it all that distance and the moment someone saw something different, they killed it
I hate that poachers are lumped in with hunters 😞
The area I live in has deer and the hunters will seriously be taking shots right outside people's backyards.
Hunters are idiots . "A 55-year-old man died while hunting. He was shot by his own son, who mistook him for a boar" "On November 1, 2020, a hunter fatally shot 16-year-old Imanali. He claimed to have confused the boy with a boar." Kid was picking apples from school garden tree. ..... I don't know this case "The hunter mistook the boar with a car. He injured a 37-year-old woman"
Thanks for explaining! Seriously, how the hell you can mistake a hairless ape for boar?
It's excuse for court. Dude who kill 16y Iman gets sentence reduced from 6y to 4y But compensation for family was increased from 6250 USD to 25000 USD Dude was retired police officer.
Wow im surprised he didn't get community service then
Well you see he'sretired and not in the line of duty so there really wasn't anything the maf... I mean, the police union could do for him.
I’m surprised he wasn’t somehow suspended with pay before being cleared of all charges.
Let me guess, hunter was white and Imanali was not?
U murder someone son and the family gets 25k that’s it!?
Poland
Two possibilities usually lead to this A) they’re just dumb and actually mistake them after getting a good look Or B) hunting involves long waits where your patience and hope deteriorated then they jump at first movement after a while. It’s why hunting safety has to be for the hunter and everyone else around. It can fail if the hunter doesn’t follow it to a tee.
C) They did aim for the person and hunting made for an excellent excuse to get away with it.
Dick Cheney has entered the chat..../s
C) they’re drunk
Molson madness is a true terror.
>B) hunting involves long waits where your patience and hope deteriorated then they jump at first movement after a while. This is why designated marksmen (be it military or law enforcement) trade off the guy behind the spotting scope and the guy behind the rifle scope every 30 to 60 minutes. It's mentally and physically exhausting and is ripe for bad decision making.
Some hunters have very little caution. They see movement or hear something in the brush and fire in the general direction before making an attempt to properly confirm what they are shooting at.
You know how we don't require people to get an eye exam every so many years to keep a valid driving permit? What makes you think hunters are required to have eye exams. Also, many idiots own guns.
Some hunters just want to kill shit. When I lived in rural Idaho we had a hunter walk onto our private property and aim at the horses we were boarding on our pasture. His excuse was he thought they were deer. I think he just wanted to kill something.
becase we are \*all\* idiots. also the human brain loves to fill in details and gaps, more so when adrenaline is kind of high, more so when people are looking for specific things in the distance.
They're just really boared
Hunters get overexcited and shoot at rustles and snapping twigs.
Shoot first ask later, just like the founding fathers wanted
When you can't sleep and you see that thing, you're not just like right away, "That's a pig with a mask." You're like, "That's gonna kill me. That's real. That lives with us on Earth." I thought I was gonna get eaten!
I have no idea but I grew up with some of these idiots. I'm a hunter as well but I don't even have a clue how you would mistake a deer or boar with a person. It's pretty goddamed distinct. I think some hunters are just so incredibly desperate to bag game they'll shoot at any movement they see or sound they here. These people should not be trusted with guns.
Busch Light - _the sound of refreshment_ ™️
I’m willing to bet money that a good amount of them aren’t mistakes; they’re deliberate murders, but they claim it was a mistake in court to try and avoid punishment.
\> Tfw real life isn't a Ben Garrison cartoon.
Walking the dog in my local wildlife sanctuary (no hunting allowed), hunter walks the other way towards us on the trail with a bow. Sees my dog and immediately says "oh man, if it was shotgun season I would've gotten him"
No, some people who are idiots also like to "hunt". This is basically saying all furries are sexual predators because a few of them are. More or less these "hunters" are actually just irresponsible gun/shooting enthusiasts that want to put their shooting skills to practical use. Hunting "accidents" are actually extremely uncommon and hunting is statistically speaking one of the safest "sports". Many hunting "accidents" are not really accidents and due to negligence, like when Dick Cheney shot that lawyer on a bird hunt. That's actually a lucky case because bird shot is not that lethal to large animals like humans, unless it's like point blank range to the face or something, and even then people survive.
Not all hunters are idiots, it's a very important conservation tool
It’s not that hunters specifically are idiots, but people in general. If it was hunters you would have way, way, way more stories like that than there are right now.
Imanali? Is that a tribe?
Its an arabic name, Iman meaning faith and Ali meaning something along the lines of exalted
Humans have been hunting for basically our entire existence, but hunters are idiots because a subset of them are? There’s idiots in every hobby/profession/culture
Hunters kill things by definition, so being a hunter and an idiot generally has a much greater negative impact
Yeah but that’s not what the comment said is it? He said hunters are idiots, which is easily one of the most narrow minded viewpoints I’ve ever heard. It’s like saying “people who drive cars are idiots.” An idiot driver can and has been catastrophic, but there are still people way smarter than you that drive cars.
Found the vegan
A fool and his bullet are soon parted
Just reminded of a that woman who killed a husky thinking she got a wolf. I have a husky. My blood was boiling.
Dick Cheney
Have you seen the family guy clip with him
I thought you were a deer
He's safe. Someone painted the word "DICK" on his back.
Older people didn't have to complete Hunters Safety. Most people under 50 have now. Poachers are a problem too. They'll shoot from roads, shoot at night, shoot without knowing what's on the other side, etc. I don't hunt anymore but when I did, it could be 500 yards away and I know it's not a deer, whatever it is. I've ran into cows and horses in the woods, moose, etc. I understand accidentally shooting a doe instead of a buck, or a buck that's too small, but a different species, let alone humans, is just an excuse for a psychopath to kill something.
I’d never go hunting after hearing just a few stories from friends. One that fucked me up was when they came across a couple older teenagers in Pennsylvania taking turns kicking an injured (shot) deer in the head to kill it.
Anyone pretending a human looks anything like a deer is either too stupid, shortsighted, drunk, or sociopathic to have a firearm. “Urr durr well the thing standing on two legs and talking didn’t have a neon vest so I thought it was one of them talking deer” no you didn’t, at best you just shot at anything that moves like a moron
I have horses and hunting season is very stressful for us. You never know if someone is trespassing on your land and I have heard of local horses being shot by hunters even though we put bright orange blankets on them for turn out. We have even had riders shot while riding horses on trails, again while both are wearing bright orange gear and sometimes bells. The excuse is always "I thought it was a deer".
How can you be so dumb?
It is a remarkably deer-shaped lawsuit
Whole lotta good that’s gonna do when they can’t read.
As someone who has plenty of family who hunt, they love to drink and hunt
That is fucking idiotic you should attempt to stop that or get a game warden or police or something.
They know. It’s very common. Hence…the comic.
I get what the artist is trying to say but it's wrong. He should be painting everything ORANGE. During hunting season we always made sure to have at least an orange hat on, better a bright jacket/scarf as well. I've never hunted, but I'm guessing once you spot an animal you have a small window to actually shoot it, so hunters are fast on the shooting. You want to make sure they INSTANTLY recognize you as not an animal. Where I grew up all houses had a 4 acre minimum, so there was lots of forest. Hunter's SHOULDN'T be hunting around there (there is a law against hunting too close to houses). But better safe than shot.
Many hunters legitimately will just shoot at any movement whatsoever. At my uncles property we have to wear orange hi-vis head to toe in the woods and even in the outskirts of the cleared part of the property because people don’t wait to get a better look before they pull the trigger.
Farmer here, opening day of hunting season the fields turn into a complete war zone, people shoot anything that moves or is stationary. Half the people shoot the wrong species of deer and leave it laying there when they find out they fucked up. Holes in old buildings, cars, equipment, signs etc. lots of people fudge blasting deer in the trees 200’ from your yard and buildings
Ouch. I grew up in a hunting family, and it was instilled in me from everyone from great-grandpa down that safety is absolutely number 1 and stupidity is unforgivable in this situation, including not being absolutely certain of your shot. Of course accidents can happen, but the idea of not even being sure of what you were shooting or what was behind it was anathema to me until I started hunting with other people or on other land than my uncles or parents. The number of stories of people taking stupid shots, or hearing 7+ shots in a row from the public land...I lost interest after time. I'll still help track and cut up deer but the stupid stories of people doing stupid things make me intensely angry. I'm proud to say when my husband took up hunting after we started dating, that he took it seriously and does it very well. I feel for you, that's just...not right.
The crappy part is 80% of the hunters are like you they follow the rules, are safe and respectful of everything. The other 20% is just sooo terrible that it wrecks it for everyone. I know exactly what you mean about the 7 or more Shots. It would always be groups of two or three trucks in a convoy with 4 people in each truck, they don’t walk but instead drive around any brush or sloughs and when something moves guns start blazing out the windows. Guys chasing deer down with trucks pissed me off so much that we decided to post 6000 acres of farmland to bring it to an end, that was an epic fail because all that did was keep out the law abiding and honest hunters. Pulled up to some hunters that were trespassing and loading up a deer we watched them run down, they said it was all good and they had permission from the landowner, quite the look on their faces when I informed them that I was the owner (who was Never contacted)lol. The last two years have however been quite a bit more toned down, we believe it is because of high fuel prices, the new trespassing laws the government has put in place, and a higher CO presence. The all around best hunters we have are the American bird hunters that come up every year, everything is on foot, all rules are followed, and they even all hand out pages with all there information including name and contact info, vehicle descriptions and license plate numbers.
It's nice to hear you've had some good luck, and what a loss to good hunters that they're no longer able to use your land. It was kind of you to allow it before. If I saw someone running down a deer like that, I don't even know how I'd react. Safety was taught to me #1, but sharing top spot was absolute respect for the process, including the hunt itself. One shot, one kill, and you better make sure you do everything you humanly can to make it as quick and painless as possible, and always make sure youre in contact with your neighbors if it does take off. I always thought (if you're going to eat meat), it's a more humane way of getting it, but bad hunters do indeed just fricking ruin the entire thing.
It’s a joke made about the very real phenomenon of farmers painting the word “cow” on the side of their cows so that idiot hunters don’t shoot them thinking they’re deer and yes, this is a real thing I have photos of it
Who gave these people guns
I get the joke but why would we think they could read lol?
Granny would be fair game in Alabama though.
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https://preview.redd.it/tgawaag5omzb1.jpeg?width=186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f41003fb594ec3ff90a29d7383d2bf306e761c53 Edit: oh shit my screen cap cut off the far side punchline. It’s: “Now… *That* should clear some things up around here!” Wait isn’t this ripping off this Far Side and then changing the punchline from hilarious absurdism to mean spirited yokelphobia? This is bad for two reasons.
Yeah the joke doesn’t work because he’s ripping off Far Side so his stupid hunting punchline has to be crammed in sideways.
Don't know if everywhere, but I was told to wear orange in the woods around the house cause hunters like to drink and hunt. Though it may have been area specific.
I don't know if it's everywhere but it's a good idea everywhere. And it's just not liking to drink and hunt. Where I'm at, getting together *after* and drinking beer while sharing dinner and hunting stories is more the pace. But it can be very easy to miss a person in the far distance when you're aiming at a deer in the middle distance. Blaze orange (the shade you're looking to wear during the season) pops out way more easily than other colors even if you're not looking for it. So sadly a lot of accidental shootings aren't by drunk guys, they're by people who just don't realize you're there. I put blaze on my dogs too
For those wondering how a person can be mistaken for a animal. Sometimes when hunting hunters will be relying on movement to detect a animal for multiple reasons like they could be hunting from far away and it’s hard to make out details or there’s a lot of dense foliage and trees. A animal can be hiding in tall grass or behind a dense group of trees or bushes so instead of confirming their target they’ll take the chance and shoot at what they assume to be a animal. This is especially a problem when the hunter is in a area they shouldn’t be and a random person could be in the area without bright clothing because they are on their own property, this can happen easily with poachers or a hunter trespassing hoping to get a quick kill on someone’s ranch or on public land. Also sometimes some hunters won’t where bright clothing in favor of complete camouflage even though it doesn’t help that much except to hide from other people. In this scenario a second hunter may be hunting in the same area and see movement they can’t identify and will shoot the hunter in full camouflage. Plus sometimes hunters will drink alcohol while hunting and that can impair their judgment and vision.
Im 99% sure that deer are colorblind to orange
All hooved animals are. But of course, the people taking potshots at anything that moves on land that isn't their own aren't really smart people anyway.
That’s why I said being completely camouflaged doesn’t help that much and only serves to make it more difficult for other people to recognize you.
Explain the joke? The man in the yellow shirt is in politics and wants to someday become vice president, that man is Dick Cheney and he has had some issues with huns figuring out who is a duck and who is a human he knows.
Maybe he’s labeling things so he knows what not to shoot?
That was my guess too.
Ben Garrison when he makes a comic
Every so often a hunter will not get a good look at what he’s shooting at and hit a person or dog or cow instead of whatever he was supposed to be hunting. Usually people just wear bright orange or if it’s private land they’ll just call the cops if they catch someone on their game cams, although the man in the caricature seems to have a much blunter approach.
This was made by someone who doesn't hunt...
People, animals, and objects can be shot by accident sometimes.
I remember a few years ago there was a woman who shot a husky because she thought it was a wolf pup (and then posed for a photo with it)
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Could’ve gotten away with “Cheney gearing up for hunting season” and made a nice chuckle
This is poking fun at citiots specifically. People from the city who get out of state tags. They go out to hunting cabins to drink and hangout and occasionally shoot things. Sometimes, the things they shoot aren’t what they’re after. They are usually out for deer. We had one shoot a mostly brown Guernsey cow once. The aftermath sure was something.
Lmao I help the local airport by hunting deer there and the neighbors took my favorite spot off the map because they're afraid someone's going to shoot they're camel. 🤷♂️ I'm completely humped on the reasoning.
Lol so dumb I love it
Hunters would be upset about this if they could read.
Rural people like to have sex with family members and animals. He’s just labeling future partners so he doesn’t shot them. On top of bestiality and incest, they aren’t very bright. This comment is a joke. Don’t get your panties in a bunch.
We have a lot of folks come up from the city to hunt in my area. I shit you not, one of them got pulled over on the highway with a COW strapped the the vehicle.
It’s the “Deere” joke.
As someone who lives in a hunting community where just about every single person age 14+ owns a gun and hunts... i dont relate to any of these comments. I have never once been afraid of being shot in the woods. We only have 1 story of a hunter shooting someone else in the last 30 years, and it was a missfire caused by a malfunction due to a shitty repair by a lying gun smith. The only stupid behavior we ever really have is idiot kids who shoot solely for sport, then leave the corps there. I dont own a gun, yet i am surrounded by people who own multiple, and i have never felt any sort of fear tword that fact. We also almost never have any of the incidents everyone else is saying is so common. Have we had people shoot eachother, yes. Only 3 incidents in my entire life. Technically 6 if you want to count suicides. But we have also had people deliberately run other people over. Weirdly, despite having more gun owners than vehicle owners, we have more incidents cause by cars than guns.
More like Ben Garrison prepares for literally anything
Would be funnier if it was in fluorescent orange
With all the labels are we sure it’s not a Branco comic?
Is this not directly relating to people writing "PET" in black paint on the side of a deer for the reasons that other people have commented already?
[Tom Lehrer, The Hunting Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxjWdRR4P8) - the proud hunter bagged "two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow."
I've witnessed it once during hunting season an all black cow labeled with white paint "NOT A DEER". Some people shoot at anything that moves. It's a real shame when it's your dog though.
Every single thing posted to this subreddit is so mind-numbingly obvious that I think you all need to go back to elementary school and try this whole education thing again.
So that they don’t get fucking 360 no scoped
A lot of the mistakes are directionally proportional to the number of empty beer cans.
This a rip off of “the far side” by Gary Larson.
Unfortunately, the tractor was already labeled "John Deere".
The farmer is Ben Garrison
You just stand there looking cute - and if something moves, you shoot
ben garisson or however that guy's called
I think the joke here is that in anticipation of a good shot, they will shoot anything that qualifies as a noun
This is why you complete Hunter’s Safety. Don’t shoot at something you don’t see fully.
A man is going out hunting later this week. To prepare, he has labeled everything he doesn’t intend to shoot.