FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – A bow hunter is recovering after falling on an arrow in Fond du Lac County.

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On Nov. 7, dispatchers received a 911 call from 39-year-old Jonathan Henninger. The Brownsville man was bow hunting when he tripped.

“He had an arrow nocked in his bow, which for safety reasons we discourage that,” said DNR Warden Bill Hankee.

Somehow during the fall, an arrow cut into his right arm. He was bleeding heavily.

Henninger was alone. He had been bow hunting on DNR-owned public hunting land west of County Highway Y, south of the Village of Oakfield.

Henninger was able to put together a makeshift tourniquet to slow the bleeding according to Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan…