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My initial reaction to a story like this is "stupid undisciplined hunter that should be locked up for his actions".
I did however recently read an acticle in a hunting magazine where a contributing writer was recounting a story of a hunt in his youth in New Zealand red deer hunting. The writer was in a remote location, glassing a valley where he spotted a doe under a tree, partially obstructed with light folliage. As his freezer was full of venison, he was not after a doe on this trip, but was looking for a trophy stag,& continued to glass the rest of the valley. Some minutes later he returned his view to the doe, and to his amazement it split in two. What he had seen through his binos were actually two guys sitting under a tree in brown coats, glassing in the opposite direction. One of the guys had his elbow crooked up as you do when glassing, & this had looked like the head of "the doe". It was only when these two guys stood up & moved off that he realised he was not looking at a doe.
The writer said it was a lesson that he would never forget in target identification, but he also said he could see how easily a trajedy could have occurred, especially hunting in scrub.
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