Fewer young people leave their homes than ever before, with many opting to stay in and play video games or scroll through TikTok.
Many parents have desperately attempted to get their kids in a tree stand, hoping to inspire a new generation of hunters.
However this young hunter just learned a painful lesson she will not soon forget.
This mistake by a young hunter will be talked about for many years to come
Most anyone familiar with guns will tell you that you should always treat a gun as if it is loaded.
The second golden rule of shooting is that you should always know exactly what is anywhere in the vicinity of where you’re pointing a gun before you pull the trigger because, at the end of the day, you are responsible for your bullet once you open fire.
In an Instagram video that has gone viral, a young hunter shared her experiences hunting for the first time, where she learned this second rule of shooting the hard way.
While hunting for elk, the young hunter confused a dairy cow for an elk, shooting and killing the dairy cow.
If you have bought beef or dairy at the grocery store lately, then you can imagine just how expensive of a mistake this could be.
Moo-Cow mistake story told by “Cierra Mistt” should raise your eyebrows
However, an Instagram user who goes by Cierra Mistt got the shock of her lifetime when she realized this mistake would cost her a whopping quarter of a million dollars.
Yes, you read that right. Her ill-fated shot cost her an eye-popping $250,000.
Cierra Mistt discussed this expensive mistake on her Instagram page, saying, “Just when I thought this couldn’t get any more embarrassing or traumatizing as my first hunting experience, it does. So after I got off the phone with my boyfriend and he finally made it back to camp, he genuinely thought that I was pulling a prank on him because he’s like Sierra; nobody’s that dumb to mistake a cow tag for a moo cow and not a female elk.”
She added, “He was just like, call the rancher, explain the situation. It was your first time hunting and it’s like a silly little mistake. It’s kind of funny, but at the same time, they’ll probably just let you go. As I’m telling them what’s happened, they don’t seem as chill as I was hoping they would be, and so they were just like, ‘Okay, what was it? Bull or dairy cow. And that’s how much you, oh, it’s depending on what it was.’”
An important message to other young hunters
At the end of the day, authorities allowed her to keep her tags and hunting license because she called and owned up to her mistake.
Even though this mistake cost her $250,000, allegedly, she apparently avoided much more serious ramifications.
Nevertheless, know your prey, and if you make a mistake, it’s serious business.
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