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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 477517" data-attributes="member: 389">I will say this:  The details released thus far are quite damning.  Innocent trapper gets shot by someone (pair of someones), that may have been shooting out of a vehicle in violation of ND law.  At the minimum, this is extremely bad decision making on the part of the shooter and may be deserved of legal ramifications.  For anyone who has never trapped muskrats, I've trapped muskrats in my day and we ran the traps even in the dark because the rats were active at certain times of the night, so you could up your catch by including a night run (or two) on the trap line. That being said, let's leave the hanging up to the legal system.  We are working on incomplete information at a minimum, and possibly incorrect information given the track record of our media and the rumor mill.  Great for lynching someone, not great for arriving at the facts.  Because truth be told, not many of us are probably a fan of getting crucified by someone who doesn't have all the information at their disposal. Like all of you, I am unbelievably saddened by this happening to anyone, but I want the facts...pure and simple. Because, well...sometimes shit happens.BTW, I have been shot at a couple of times while out hunting. Including a time where my ex and I were in near full orange during deer gun season and we had bullets impacting about 20-30 yds from us while standing in the middle of a ~100 acre wheat stubble field from a teenager who was being taught how to road hunt by his father. The deer were running about 60-70 yds from us between the shooter and us.  So, I absolutely get the importance of knowing your backdrop, I am just thinking we may not yet know all we need to know to hang these "hunters".  My ex was in absolute tears as I told her to hit the deck and fired a couple of shots from my shotgun to scare the deer away. (we had just filled our deer tags in the same field, only to then observe a bunch of grouse land in the treetops, so we went back after them with scatter guns).  It wasn't a good feeling, and I hunted those hunters down!</blockquote>

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