Hunter Shoots Friend Dead in Chiang Rai Forest

1 minute ago, Front Row said:

So local rule would be “Don’t hunt with friends” ?

I mean if you’re going to shoot somebody, better if it’s not a close friend. Otherwise the funerals could get uncomfortable for you.

Hunting here is illegal, so going out with anyone, even if they were safe hunters, would get both into trouble.

This isn't a hunting country, with rules and regulations, along with hunter education, which is in other countries to save lives. This means they aren't safe gun handlers in the first place, besides those who are target shooters and know something about gun safety.

That still doesn't follow through with hunting, as people who don't hunt often and aren't educated on hunting rules and regulations, and who are hyped up to shoot an animal, just might and have shot things that moved or made a noise.

I wouldn't go hunting with anyone here even if it was legal, exactly for those reasons. Gun handling should be taught early in life, as it is in the west, so up and coming hunters, children, learn right off how to handle a gun and where not to point it. Here they find a gun and go out, at night, and this is what happens, even if this was indeed an accident.

32 minutes ago, Front Row said:

Would someone let me know when the CSI ASEAN gang has solved this tragedy?

I was taught that you don’t pull the trigger if you can’t clearly see and identify your target. Every hunting season when I was growing up there would be at least a couple of hunting accidents. Usually some city boy shooting another hunter. Doesn’t surprise me that it also happens here.

I was sitting on a hill in New Jersey hunting deer back in the early 80's, when I heard something hit close to me and then the report of a gun. I shouted out "Human", and they disappeared.

I also made a mistake myself when I was out in New York State hunting deer early in my hunting career. I was on property I had permission on by myself, so didn't think anyone would be anywhere near me. It was early in the morning and I heard a noise a couple of hundred yards from where I was sitting on a hillside. I brought up the gun to look through the scope and found I was pointing at two people who were also hunting, on property they didn't have permission. Immediately I lowered the gun and felt a rush of emotion. From that point on, I used binoculars I bought to check out any noise or movement.

So this is kind of a long story, but true. The ending is funny. Nothing tragic.

I grew up in a small town in the mountains. Every year at hunting season we would get inundated with city folks coming up, hoping to bag a deer. A deer that would probably not get eaten, at least not by most of those hunters. We generally knew to stay out of the woods at that time of year, especially on the weekends.
One year on the first weekend of hunting season I was sitting on the front porch of the village general store chatting with 'Spudz'. Spudz was a bit of an alcoholic and the unofficial mayor of main street, what little there was of it. We're just sitting there chatting about nothing in particular. Car after car, with license plates proclaiming that they are from the city, pull up in front of the store. First car empties out. Four hopeful hunters walk by us and go into the store to buy provisions (mostly coffee and beer). Each one is dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shakes his head. Another car pulls up. Four hunters walk by us and go into the store. Each one is again dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shakes his head again. A third car pulls up. "Busy this morning" Spudz says to me. The car empties out. Four hunters walk by us. Each one is dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shouts at the last guy getting out of the car. "Hey bub! You're taking one hell of a chance with those brown boots aren't you?"

On 5/31/2026 at 4:28 PM, fredwiggy said:

Have you ever hunted hogs? If he was crouching down, he wouldn't have been shot in the abdomen but the head, as a humans eyes are usually in their head. No one hunts hogs sitting or lying down except for during daytime or in a stand. The man said he saw eyes and shot. .

He could have been crouched down doing a "number two" and when he was shot he had already started to stand up.

2 hours ago, Front Row said:

So this is kind of a long story, but true. The ending is funny. Nothing tragic.

I grew up in a small town in the mountains. Every year at hunting season we would get inundated with city folks coming up, hoping to bag a deer. A deer that would probably not get eaten, at least not by most of those hunters. We generally knew to stay out of the woods at that time of year, especially on the weekends.
One year on the first weekend of hunting season I was sitting on the front porch of the village general store chatting with 'Spudz'. Spudz was a bit of an alcoholic and the unofficial mayor of main street, what little there was of it. We're just sitting there chatting about nothing in particular. Car after car, with license plates proclaiming that they are from the city, pull up in front of the store. First car empties out. Four hopeful hunters walk by us and go into the store to buy provisions (mostly coffee and beer). Each one is dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shakes his head. Another car pulls up. Four hunters walk by us and go into the store. Each one is again dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shakes his head again. A third car pulls up. "Busy this morning" Spudz says to me. The car empties out. Four hunters walk by us. Each one is dressed in orange. Orange pants, orange jacket, orange mittens, orange hats. Spudz shouts at the last guy getting out of the car. "Hey bub! You're taking one hell of a chance with those brown boots aren't you?"

Perhaps deer are colour blind to the colour orange and it makes for good camouflage. 😀

I know people do it, but I've never understood how you can "mistake" a person for a deer, or and elk, or a boar. I've lined up shots in my sights and the cross-hair is a game animal. However, it happens. My grandfather was shot in the hand by some moron who "mistook him for a deer." I'll never understand. These people hear something in the brush and fire blind. If you do something like that, you would never be allowed near a firearm again, after your prison sentence is complete.

8 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Spray then Pray is the go.

Thats in the USA for hogs.

To the poor gent who lost his life? RIP 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

8 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

Perhaps deer are colour blind to the colour orange and it makes for good camouflage. 😀

Deer see orange or red as brown or gray. They can see blues and yellows , but mixed colors fool their eyes. Good camouflage is a mixed pattern and doesn't have to be like army camouflage. The worst thing a hunter can do is wash his hunting clothes in regular detergent with brighteners. The deer will pick him off rather easy even without movement. Not wearing anything blue or yellow helps.

8 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

From that point on, I used binoculars I bought to check out any noise or movement

I was never a weapon mounted light guy on an any weapon because of the need to then point the weapon at a human to use the light. If I aim at a person, that person will be shot. I always used a QD scope for scouting for the same reason

I did have a weapon light with my M4 because that was part of bug out kit

Never point your gun at anything you dont want to destroy

8 hours ago, Front Row said:

I was taught that you don’t pull the trigger if you can’t clearly see and identify your target.

Pretty sure you were also taught not to go hunting boozed up. These guys I reckon were village guys. Chances of alcohol in the system therefore high. They were friends and one friend killed another going after moo pa. The whole notion of murder is way off the track IMHO but you never know.

5 minutes ago, connda said:

I know people do it, but I've never understood how you can "mistake" a person for a deer, or and elk, or a boar. I've lined up shots in my sights and the cross-hair is a game animal. However, it happens. My grandfather was shot in the hand by some moron who "mistook him for a deer." I'll never understand. These people hear something in the brush and fire blind. If you do something like that, you would never be allowed near a firearm again, after your prison sentence is complete.

The most dangerous place to be is in the woods on opening day on public land. A friend was also shot in the face by birdshot when a pheasant went up between him and another hunter, Blinded him in one eye. A few die every year being shot by someone who mistook them for a deer, which isn't easy to do. It's rookie excitement usually or people pulling loaded guns out of cars with their hand near the trigger that kills others.

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Pretty sure you were also taught not to go hunting boozed up. These guys I reckon were village guys. Chances of alcohol in the system therefore high. They were friends and one friend killed another going after moo pa. The whole notion of murder is way off the track IMHO but you never know.

I suggested that because it does happen, even though it's more likely an accidental death by someone who wasn't thinking. It is one way some people kill others trying to make it look like an accident, and it has happened to friends and husbands before.

24 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

He could have been crouched down doing a "number two" and when he was shot he had already started to stand up.

The man said he saw eyes, and human eyes don't glow in a headlamp, so even if he shot after he stood up, and got hit in the abdomen, that excuse is a little fishy. I've hunted at night and used a flashlight when going to a fishing spot many times, and no one I was with ever looked like a hog but a human form when my flashlight hit them.

8 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Pretty sure you were also taught not to go hunting boozed up. These guys I reckon were village guys. Chances of alcohol in the system therefore high. They were friends and one friend killed another going after moo pa. The whole notion of murder is way off the track IMHO but you never know.

Rule number 3. No booze or weed

6 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I suggested that because it does happen, even though it's more likely an accidental death by someone who wasn't thinking. It is one way some people kill others trying to make it look like an accident, and it has happened to friends and husbands before.

One cannot know what is in the depths of a mans heart

7 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

The man said he saw eyes, and human eyes don't glow in a headlamp, so even if he shot after he stood up, and got hit in the abdomen, that excuse is a little fishy. I've hunted at night and used a flashlight when going to a fishing spot many times, and no one I was with ever looked like a hog but a human form when my flashlight hit them.

Headlamp. Probably what they were using. See them all the time in my village as they go out after having a drink or three to hunt paddy rats. Moo pa live in pretty thick scrub. Night time vision in such scrub won't be good although these headlamps are pretty powerful. Murder is still a long shot IMO. The guy that killed the other guy will more than likely have to pay the police, the family of the victim and a fine for hunting and that will be that. TIT. As I say this is my opinion.