Let’s put safety first in the spring woods this year

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Let's put safety first in the spring woods this year
Larry Case/For The Register-HeraldHunting-related negligent shootings still happen every year in the turkey woods. Our goal as sportsmen and turkey hunters should be that no such events happen, period.

The scene was all too familiar. A beautiful piece of woods, a bright spring morning and the songbirds were in full chorus. But I knew when I stepped on to the little white oak flat in front of me things would change in a hurry. Along with two other DNR officers I had been called to the scene of a hunting-related fatality. I stood for a minute and stared at the fallen hunter and the blood-soaked camouflage. I thought about how everyone involved with this scene, the victim’s family and friends, the hunter who had made this terrible mistake and all of his family, their lives would be changed forever.

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