Seasoned hunter, Navy veteran accidentally shoots herself in the leg

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TULSA, Okla. – A hunter’s worst nightmare: a woman’s gun accidentally goes off and the bullet goes straight through her knee.

Now, she’s worried she may lose part of her leg.

Rebecca Lackey was in the military, so she’s used to being around guns and this wasn’t her first hunt.

But, a freak accident left her in the hospital for months.

Lackey says she pulled up her gun to shoot a deer, but it went off, unintentionally.

“I can’t think is my glove got hung on the trigger because it was like the gun went off and it went this way and I saw knee components going this way,” said Lackey.

She looked down and saw her knee shattered.

“It was burning,” said Lackey. “All…

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