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Iowa teen dies after being mistaken for squirrel during hunting trip, officials say
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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Why the F do kids shoot squirrels? And who the F confuses a squirrel that fits in a shoe box with room to spare with a human of near-adult size?
The real question is why the fuck anyone would go hunting for squirrels with a large enough caliber weapon that it could kill a person.
You can drop a squirrel with a pellet air rifle im sure. Anything larger than that and youre not hunting a squirrel, youre just blowing it away.
Hunting squirrels is stupid enough on its own without doing it solely for the sake of shooting something thats alive. Thats not conservation, its blood sport
As a side-note, you can get air-powered pellet-rifles powerful enough to take down a deer.