Sep. 22, 2013 |Written by Daily Herald Media
HAMBURG — One person is dead after a hunting accident in the western Marathon County town of Hamburg, police say.
The accident happened about 10 a.m. in a wooded area along Highway F, Marathon County Sheriff’s Lt. Fred Goch said. Detectives with the Sheriff’s Department and investigators with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are investigating.
The name, age and gender of the victim are being withheld pending notification of relatives. More information is expected to be released later today. The hunter was shot while squirrel hunting, Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Millhausen said.
The hunting accident is the second in Marathon County in a week. On Sept. 15, a 20-year-old man was hospitalized after he was shot in the chest with a .22-caliber rifle while hunting on a trail near Happy Hollow Road in Kronenwetter, police said. The hunter was mistaken for a squirrel and was shot by another hunter, police said.
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Exposing the Big Game 
I really think these moronic idiot hunters from Wisconsin can’t hunt anything without hounds. “Sportsmen” got some real issues in that State for sure
Squirrel hunting? What the fuck next??, are no animals sacred??
“The hunter was mistaken for a squirrel and was shot by another hunter, police said.”
I read the article and understood all the words, but I can’t draw a conclusion yet as you posted a picture of a squirrel, but failed to post a picture of a hunter so we could see for ourselves just how hard it is to discern the visual differences between the two species. After all, if they are so similar that it takes a DNA analysis to tell which is which, then the ‘accident’ is totally understandable. That it has happened twice in quick succession indicates that the keen-eyes of hunters are fooled by the similar size, body structure, and coloring of hunters and squirrels.
I could understand the mixup if they were both in the embryo stage;)
… and I always felt sorry for the squirrels! Who knew that it was the hunters who were at risk. Gotta say those squirrels are mighty smart: I never knew that they shot people!