I shoot on a military installation. Years back a guy killed a rattler on the range and talked about it to the wrong people. Federal charges.
We have all sorts of wildlife crossing the range. Buddy Bear will step out in the middle of a match and walk in front of the targets. Everyone stops and waits until he ambles by.
Yeah, a rule every vet and every soldier knows is to "leave the wildlife the fuck alone" on a range. Coyote or not.
One wandered onto a .50 range, we were shooting the RWS on the Stryker. I was in the CV and had full control of the net but range control was in charge of the range. One guy in an ICV shot a coyote breaking it's back. Almost cut in half. Range control calls a cease fire, I guess they fully intended on stopping the range until it died.
I figured that was stupid, bureaucratic bullshit not taking events into consideration so I didn't pass on the cease fire order, instead I said "fire, fire, fire". The fucker disintegrated in a puff of pink mist when the next burst hit. Range control was pissed but what could they do?
You call a cease fire BEFORE the animal gets shot.
Some asshole years and years ago when the world was different shot my dog with a bb gun. They'd climb the tree behind the house, you could see puffs of dust and my dog would cry and run. They'd been warned. Probably shouldn't say what happened on here but suffice to say nobody died, nobody got hurt, but nobody ever shot at my fucking dog again either. Those neighbors? I think they stayed in a Motel 6 until they could sell the house. Persona non grata and all that shit.
Broken kids that torture animals I can give a break no matter how egregious... An adult that tortures or kills animals for no goddamn reason I can't stomach.
We have all these fucking BS laws, worthless paper really, when we need simple ones like "felony to fire outside range control flags".
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