Losing it. Didn't realize I was on the TBH site when I posted the reply below. Still it's my opinion.
"Let me be the maverick on this one. As I understand it they are hunting with another person, who tells them when they have laid the sight (shown by the laser) on the spot. There shouldn't be any more of a safety consideration here than with a sighted person. By that, if the blind hunter just shoots it into the air or randomly fires it off then it's no more dangerous than if you or I who can see, took random pot shots. So I can't say as I see this as a safety issue.
Now a car is something else as it's moving and takes faster reaction time. Come to think of it, I don't want the blind person taking shots at running deer.
As to the hunting part, that I don't know about. Wouldn't seem too much of a thrill to me to be hunting game I never saw. That's a major part of the thrill of bowhunting to me is how long we have to (or perhaps get to) watch that animal before we can get a shot.
Actually I could see where this could be a real adventure for a blind person hunting with a bow. The deer would be close enough that he would get to hear it. He would still have to make a silent draw and point it in the approximate direction of the quarry and then with coaching bring it to the magic "pick a spot" point and make a good release.
Being blind is something almost too tough to imagine. LSBA doesn't have a policy on this, but if it came up in the EC meeting I think I'd tend to vote for it, at least for bowhunting, and I might even volunteer some time to sit in a blind with someone and be their coach.
JMHO "
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