Results tagged “hunting”

The MSNBC has a piece up today about how minors hunting sans supervision is legal in 21 states, with the jumping-off point being the case of young Tyler Kales, recently sentenced to thirty days in juvie for mistaking Skagit County hiker Pamela Almli for a bear and shooting her in the head, killing her instantly. So many things wrong with this story: the fact that the then-fourteen-year old was armed with only the supervision of his sixteen-year-old brother; that the two were out huntin' in the fog; and that hunting near hiking areas is a-okay and doesn't require any signage to that effect.

In yet another story that gets more disturbing with every detail, we learn that the underage hunter accused of killing a hiker after he mistook her for a bear was 14 years old. And, contrary to previous reports that said the young hunter was with an adult, he was actually only with his 16-year-old brother. According to KING 5's report, the two boys from Concrete, Wash., were dropped off by their grandfather earlier in the day to do some hunting on Sauk Mountain. Both are licensed to hunt bears, and supposedly the 14-year-old has been licensed since he was nine. Which begs the question: nine-year-olds can register to hunt with firearms? Surely there has to be a parental or adult supervision clause with that license. Or have we just decided it's fine to arm pre-teens if it's for hunting?

The Makah need to hunt the gray whale like Steve Pool needs to color his fro. It isn’t necessary to the survival of either, but it makes things seem more colorful.