Woman shoots man, mistaken for hog, using NV scope

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http://www.wistv.com/story/36375308/coroner-hunter-shoots-kills-man-she-mistook-for-wild-hog

NDERSON, S.C. (AP) - A man has been killed after South Carolina authorities say a hunter using a night-vision scope mistook him for a wild hog.

Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman tells news outlets that 40-year-old Kenneth Jason Young of Starr was hunting wild hogs on private land Wednesday night. Boseman says a woman hunting on land nearby saw through her night-vision scope something "on all fours in the grass" and fired a shot, thinking she was aiming for a wild hog.

Boseman says the shot hit Young in the head, killing him. Boseman says foul play is not suspected, and the woman's name has not been released.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Anderson County Sheriff's Office are still investigating. No charges have been filed.


Uhhhhh.........how many things did she do wrong here?
 
didn't yell "here piggy piggy" before she shot to verify if it was Wilber or not?
 
She couldn't tell the difference between a human and a hog but managed a head shot? WTF????

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Damn that's a shame and sounds incredibly negligent on the woman's part. She could make a headshot but couldn't distinguish a man hunting vs a hog??
 
Insert long pig joke here.

Crawling around on all fours? I guess you assume no one else is out there hunting? I'm sure being in the grass made it harder to make out a profile. I feel bad for her, but not sure I would hang her out to dry on this one. Crazy stuff.
 
Crawling through brush, on all fours, is not uncommon for hunters that don't just sit in a box stand waiting for something to walk by.

I can see how NV would make it hard to distinguish a man from a hog, especially if it's a cheaper optic. But, shooting across property lines is totally on her.
 
I've done more than my fair share of chasing hogs and 'yotes after dark and have never gotten down on all fours. Is this a "new" position being used that I'm unaware of?? Maybe the "get down on their level" tactic.....
Maybe it wasn't him on all fours at the back of the truck, on the tailgate but she took the best shot.... Wonder if she saw another one running away??
 
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Head shot though, so she's got the skillz.
Or the man had bad luck. Unfortunate this did not have to happen, why was she attempting a shot on another property?
 
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So is there a market for a small, battery powered, IR LED that you pin to a cap? Maybe flashing? Wouldn't help with thermal, but it'd be unmistakable on NV.
 
So is there a market for a small, battery powered, IR LED that you pin to a cap? Maybe flashing? Wouldn't help with thermal, but it'd be unmistakable on NV.

yeah they are good for hiding your face from cameras too.
 
She couldn't tell the difference between a human and a hog but managed a head shot? WTF????

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So much this.

On all fours is not out of the realm of possible, but not seeing the site raises questions.

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I'd like to know the range this mistake was made at.
 
Or "he was on all fours" sounded better than I shot something before I could identify it...
 
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You have got to identify your target before you let it fly, but unfortunately, there are irresponsible as hell folks out there who will shoot at noises and/or movement.

You can be in the woods the 3rd week of November, wearing a blaze orange vest that Ray Charles could spot and from 50-60 yards out, some dipsh*t from across the property line can put not only one, but two rounds in a poplar tree less than 2' to your right.
 
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maybe, maybe not with a head shot... CSI is a TV show...

Unless they moved the body your talking about a reality close splatter being on all four at a downward angle probably 2-10 ft vs a larger area maybe 10-15 foot behind a person standing in an open area. It wouldn't take CSI tv specials to figure it out.
 
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Unless they moved the body your talking about a reality close splatter being on all four at a downward angle probably 2-10 ft vs a larger area maybe 10-15 foot behind a person standing in an open area. It wouldn't take CSI tv specials to figure it out.

You have a lot of faith in LEO/crime scene folks... It's night, in the woods, and she shot him from range across another property. Who knows what the weather/ground/foliage conditions were at the time. Don't know about exit wounds/caliber/etc. Was she elevated? Ground hunting? Did they move the body a little? Too many variables to say with any certainty.
 
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You have a lot of faith in LEO/crime scene folks... It's night, in the woods, and she shot him from range across another property. Who knows what the weather/ground/foliage conditions were at the time. Don't know about exit wounds/caliber/etc. Was she elevated? Ground hunting? Did they move the body a little? Too many variables to say with any certainty.

I've hunted enough to tell you simple ballistics of what position something was in when they were shot. It's not super hard to picture blood only travels so far and yes I trust even a local investigator to be able to determine something this simple.
 
I've hunted enough to tell you simple ballistics of what position something was in when they were shot. It's not super hard to picture blood only travels so far and yes I trust even a local investigator to be able to determine something this simple.

My local investigators could not figure out where a shot came from given the following information.

Complaints about where the shots came from
Location of spent casings
Location of home that was shot
Direction of travel of the round within the home

Guy was traveling NE on main road our street T's into. They told my neighbor the car was in front of my house. Wrong road. It's not that hard really, if they listen, which they didn't. I can't tell you the amount of faith I lost in LE's interest in investigating something in about 24 hours. It's not like I thought they would catch the shooter. But I assumed they would give a crap about it. I was wrong. They swore up and down the house they were shooting at was across the main road while a house and a car on the wrong side of that road had bullet holes in them. Apparently their .223 discharges out the stock. Craziest thing.
 
I could see where she could make the mistake, as fat as soooo many are these days. Consider this, he's drunk hunting, at night, a porky type fellow, crawling around on all fours puking, with the last name Young, he was probably Pig Shit Irish.....So she wasn't too far off the mark...

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See, pretty easy mistake to make...HAHAHAHAHA!
 
Very tragic. Someone's father, brother, or son met a horrible death due to negligent circumstances.
 
Thats it, we must demand the cost of thermal scopes and late gen night vision to be lowered to the point that anyone can purchase it. This man's life would have been saved if she could have afforded better equipment.
 
Thats it, we must demand the cost of thermal scopes and late gen night vision to be lowered to the point that anyone can purchase it. This man's life would have been saved if she could have afforded better equipment.
I know that you’re joking, but good to remember that the path this goes down would end with a requirement that only late gen nv and thermal be used, and they’d tax those products extra to fund enforcement.
 
Kenneth Jason Young, on all fours looking like a pig?

Are they sure they didn't mean Ned Beatty?

 
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