How do you Mistake a Cow

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Not sure if I want to post this here, general, or APS but I'll start here.

Background:
My parents have the place they live on now and another place they are moving to due to the growth around them currently. At the current residence they have some Scottish Highlanders (long haired cows) at the "farm" they have a mix of normal cows.

I got a call last night from my step-dad. He told me someone had shot one of the cows at the farm and killed it. I mentioned something about putting game cameras up to see if anyone comes back but he said he thought it was poachers from the street who thought it was a deer. He was pretty upset which surprised me after all he has been through.

I regularly go down there to shoot and fish. From now and I'll have my Kimber and Cetme with me at all times.

Just thought I'd vent/rant to a group who could empithize.
 
I know it's happened

I live in a small rural part of Ohio. Some people from Cleveland decided to Deer hunt. Well they shot something big and brown. Put a tag on it and drove to the check-in station. The knew they had a record deer.... too bad it was a Moodear.
They shot a cow. I was there and laughed so hard my sides hurt.
 
To me they stole a cow from my parents. If only cattle theft was still a hangin offense...
 
I would tend to suspect deliberate, wanton, reckless, killing by "..., ..., ...." (words that nice people shouldn't use to describe other people who act like two legged animals). How can ANYONE mistake a cow for a deer or other game animal. I mean, you don't even have elk in OK do you? That is the only game animal that remotely resembles a cow IMO.

Good shooting and be safe.
LB

ps: But people will surprise you with their stupidity. Last year my wife and I were watching some elk about 60-70 yds away in Yellowstone Nat'l Park when two ladies got out of their car and asked "Are those antelope?".
 
We actually do have some elk in the SW but nowhere around here.

I think Art could be right with just shooting eyes. Or it could be just some :cuss: that wanted to kill something that night and didn't care what it was.

My title was kind of rhetoric to express my disbelief and disgust. I felt it was a little more high road than *&^%@!$ worthless piece @# #$$% poachers" that I would have liked to post.

Be safe out there it can happen anywhere.
 
I can see how a low-IQ drunk could mistake one for a deer. :confused:

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Luckily it wasn't one of their "hairy" cows that got shot. They have those at their place they live at now.

The one that was shot was a "normal" cow (Angus, Limousine, etc). It was at their farm they are moving to.
 
I can remember a couple of farms in north Louisiana with cows marked during hunting season. I remember one cow with "COW" written on its sides. Of course, that assumes a minimal level of reading comprehesion, the belief that the farmer is not lying, and/or some concern about what you're shooting at.
 
How can people mistake a cow for a deer?
Same reason people get shot during deer season :cuss:

Sorry to hear what happened. I always try not to turn any horses out in the pasture during deer season around here. Course, I guess that doesn't help when its happening this time of year :banghead:
 
I suspect what Art said. Someone was jacklighting. OR, maybe they were just kids out looking for a thrill. Maybe it was personal...

As far as the "cow/goat/calf/llama" at the check station...these stories have achieved urban legend status. I have friends in many states over many years who know someone who knows someone who saw it happen.
 
Yeah, they probably don't make it to the check station very often.

I think C.R. Sam had somebody shoot one of his goats....might have been someone else, can't remember.

Also saw a news story posted here a year or two ago where some older fella shot a horse when he was hunting deer.....right out from under the neighbor girl who was riding it :what: :cuss:
 
One of my uncles had a ranch about 35 mi NE of Medford, OR when I was a kid. Several of my cousins & I spent summers out there working for him (slave labor) in the early '60's. He had permits to graze stock on gov't land. We were required to paint a large circle on each side of the cows with flourscent purple dye. Mixed it up from powder with hot water & slapped it on with 4" paint brushes. The purpose was to reduce the number of cows shot by hunters. He still lost some every year.
 
From the original post, we don't know if the cow was mistakenly shot or intentionally shot. We only know it was shot.

How does somebody mistake a cow for a deer? Apparently such pathetic incidents of misidentification happen much more often than most folks would like to believe.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/ihea/hea1994.html

These are available from 1994-1998 by simple changing the date in the web site address to any of those 5 years.

There are some interesting trends that seem to be represented by the data. First, hunting alone is apparently much safer than hunting with or around others. If you are shot while hunting, you are more likely to be shot by somebody else, generally at a rate of more than 2:1.

If you are shot by somebody else, in something like 25-40% of the time (depending on the year), you get shot because the other person confused you for a game animal. In similarly high percentages, being shot by another happens when the shootee is out of sight from the shooter. As a result, even when wearing proper blaze orange gear, if you can't be seen, it doesn't do you any good.

While not causitive, stats show that you will most likely be shot while hunting deer. This gives the impression that deer hunting is really dangerous, but my guess it is that more people go deer hunting than anything else. Similarly, you are most likely to be shot if you are between the ages of 10 and 40. Once again, these are probably the largest age categories of hunters.

Rather bizarre to me was the fact that there are both self-flicted and 2 party-inflicted events when the gun discharged as a result of being ... used as a CLUB!

I think part of what is most scary is that only rarely were intoxicants being used. So most of the time, these 'accidents' were the result of the actions of sober people.
 
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Sorry to hear this happened. Those that would do such are the scum of the Earth and the same people that rob and steal etc at every opportunity. I would discount teenage stupidity and vote for poachers.

BTW I think more people are shot/injured by firearms during turkey hunting season than deer season. I think that stat has been solid for a few years now.

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