A 46-year-old Rhode Island man took a buckshot pellet in the ankle on the opening day of shotgun season for deer, state environmental police confirmed.
Massachusetts environmental police coastal bureau chief Maj. Patrick Moran said the man was hunting in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest with a group of about 20 hunters last Monday, the first day of the two-week shotgun season. The man was injured in the morning but was able to walk normally and refused medical treatment on the Island, opting to seek treatment closer to his off-Island home, police said.
Major Moran said the pellet hit the man during a group hunting exercise when some hunters were driving the deer toward other stationary hunters. The man was among the stationary hunters.
“In this case, five people had shot at the deer almost simultaneously,” Mr. Moran said. “We…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Wasn’t sure where to post this, but I thought I should. Where will it end? I truly hope that people being impoverished isn’t a justification for every kind of human behavior, and it usually meant the end of the discussion as well:
“The 17th-century Mogul ruler, Akbar, is said to have owned 30,000 cheetahs, which he used for hunting.”
And it is still going on today!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/this-impoverished-region-is-a-hub-for-the-cheetah-trade-now-its-fighting-back/ar-BBQt12k?ocid=spartanntp