October 14, 2013
A man has been shot in the face and legs in a hunting accident in central western NSW.
The man, 21, was hunting on a Cowra property with the 33-year-old owner and the owner’s 35-year-old brother on Saturday, police say.
He was accidentally shot when the 35-year-old fell over.
He was taken to the local hospital and transferred to Orange with non-life threatening injuries.
BOSTON (CBS) — A 55-year-old man was shot by his son as they were hunting woodcocks in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Fish and Game says 55-year-old David Osgood of Berlin, New Hampshire, was struck by bird shot on his right side when his son, 24-year-old Cory Osgood of Notingham, discharged his shotgun at a woodcock in an over grown apple orchard off of Hill Road in Dummer.
David Osgood drove himself to the Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin where he was treated and released for approximately 7 puncture wounds from the shotgun pellets.
NH Fish and Game Conservation Officers met with the hunters and are currently investigating the shooting incident.
Police say both Osgood’s were wearing hunter orange at the time, but could not see each other when the incident occurred.
An American Woodcock (Credit: Ronald Slabke/Wikipedia)
[And they mustn’t forget the threat posed by naked men talking about sasquatch…]
After a 61-year-old French hunter accidentally killed his own son, mistaking him for a wild boar, and a six-year-old boy was also killed in a separate incident this week, there will be increased pressure for safety measures in hunting.
According to Ouest France (in French) on Thursday this week, the 61-year-old hunter accidentally shot his own son during a hunting party in the Ardèche region, after mistaking him for a wild boar. Reports said that he opened fire after seeing a shadow pass by. However, tragically, the shadow was his own son and not the wild boar he was hunting.
While efforts were made to resuscitate the 35-year-old man, he tragically died at the scene. His father collapsed, overcome with grief and shock, and had to be admitted to hospital.
In the same week another fatal accident caused the death of a six-year-old boy in the north of France, some days after being shot during a hunt near the village of Saveuse, west of Amiens in the Somme region last Sunday. In that incident, the boy was shot in the groin and succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.
In that incident, initial findings show that the accident may have been a tragic freak of nature. Apparently the hunter left his gun on the ground, so that he could relieve himself, first taking care to remove the cartridges.
A second person then passed by, put the cartridges back into the gun and left the weapon lying “on a fence or on a tree.”
A dog passed by and accidentally knocked the weapon, which fired, hitting the boy who was standing close by. Both father and his 16-year-old son, who it is believed reloaded the gun, were arrested by police on suspicion of manslaughter.
These two fatalities come after an incident with an 82-year-old deaf hunter left two mushroom pickers seriously injured, one critically. He reportedly mistook them for a pheasant.
The 82-year-old was banned by a court in Perigueux in the south west of France from hunting and from owning a gun for five years. His hunting license was cancelled and his rifle confiscated.
All these tragic incidents will no doubt lead to renewed calls for more stringent safety measures to be introduced during the hunting season.
The Association for the Protection of Wild Animals (ASPAS – in French) is campaigning for more safety measures to be introduced as well as for a ban on Sunday hunting. A spokesman denounced the “tragedies that can be added to the list of accidents that is already too long.”
Earlier this month, Pierre Athanaze, head of ASPAS, spoke to The Local and said laws needed to be changed in France to prevent more deaths.
He said:
“France is the only country in Europe where people can hunt every day, which is why we are the country in Europe with the most accidents.”
“Hunting needs to be stopped on Sundays, because this is the most dangerous day. There are more and more people heading out into the countryside on a Sunday, whether it’s walking, mountain biking or collecting mushrooms. We want an end to it.”
Referring to the incident with the 82-year-old man, Athanaze said that many people who hunt in France these days are elderly and are “not subject to any medical checks” to ensure they have their wits about them and are capable of spotting the difference between a pheasant and two mushroom collectors.
“They need to introduce medical checks for hunters,” he added.
The group is also campaigning to demand a change in the law, whereby hunt organizers can be held responsible in the case of serious accidents.
You don’t hear about this happening every day, unfortunately…
Deputies: Naked man talking about Sasquatch attacks hunter
By KATU.com Staff Published: Oct 10, 2013 at 11:28 PM PDT
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. – A naked man talking about Sasquatch used
a rock to attack a hunter in rural Washington County on Thursday morning, deputies said.
Investigators said the naked man hit the hunter repeatedly in the head with a rock, but the hunter managed to eventually fight off his attacker. He held the man at bay with his hunting rifle until deputies arrived.
The hunter suffered broken fingers, a dislocated shoulder and an eye injury, but will recover, according to his daughter.
According to Sgt. Bob Ray with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the attacker was 20-year-old Linus Norgren of Banks. The daughter said Norgren was a neighbor.
Norgren used an apple-sized rock to hit the hunter and also tried to strangle him with a piece of clothing, Ray said. Investigators said they aren’t sure why Norgren attacked the hunter or why he was naked.
The victim told police that Norgren was making Sasquatch references. Investigators said he was under the influence of something, but they haven’t said what.
The 58-year-old hunter, Jeff McDonald, managed to call deputies once he had Norgren at bay. County deputies and state police troopers searched the heavily wooded area near Manning and used air horns to try to find the victim.
As they closed in on foot, the deputies heard the hunter blow a whistle and eventually found the man, Ray said.
The search took more than 90 minutes because the forest was so thick and steep, Ray said.
McDonald is not an avid hunter, but was out in the woods behind his neighborhood where he often hikes, his daughter, Sierra, said.
McDonald and his accused attacker know each other – at least a little, because they are neighbors. Sierra said she met Norgren at least once before and never thought he would be capable of attacking her father.
She said Norgren was yelling that he came from a long family line of Sasquatches.
In reality, Norgren’s father is a well-known mushroom picker. He owns a street-side stand off Highway 26 that’s garnered national attention.
No one was there Thursday and no one wanted to talk at their home.
Norgren was arrested and faces charges of assault, strangulation and menacing. Ray said more charges could be filed as the investigation continues. His bail is set at $250,000. He’s scheduled to be in court Friday.
KATU News reporter Erica Nochlin contributed to this report.
By Sara Gates
10/04/2013
According to daily newspaper Ouest-France, the 61-year-old saw a shadow pass and fired his weapon. However, the figure was not a wild boar, as the hunter expected, but his 35-year-old son.
Though resuscitation efforts were attempted, the man died at the scene. His father collapsed shortly after and has since been hospitalized while prosecutors investigate the circumstances of the fatal shooting.
The accidental shooting follows another hunting incident earlier this week that led to the death of a 6-year-old in northern France. The young boy died in a hospital Wednesday, succumbing to injuries he sustained Sunday when a hunter’s gun was accidentally discharged.
Earlier this year, France’s National Office for Hunting and Wildlife reported that there were 179 hunting accidents in the last hunting season, which lasted from June 2012 to May 2013, 21 of which were fatal.
[Earth to hunters: Shooting from inside a vehicle is illegal.]
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/10/grouse-hunter-shoots-self-in-leg-near-elma/
by John de Leon
ELMA, Grays Harbor County — The Fish and Wildlife Department says an agent on patrol was in the right location to help save a man’s life after he accidentally shot himself in the leg with a black powder pistol.
Officer Mark James was on patrol this weekend in a remote area south of Elma where he saw the man shooting out a window at grouse.
KXRO reports when the man saw the officer, he began to unload the gun inside of his vehicle and the .22-caliber pistol went off.
James recently went through training for gunshot wounds and applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. The hunter was treated at Grays Harbor Community Hospital.
It is muzzleloader season and shooting grouse is legal, but shooting from inside a vehicle is illegal in Washington.
The Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office says Adam Poole, 23, of Nevis, and his partner were in a boat on 4th Crow Wing Lake. They both stood up to shoot at a duck and the partner lost his balance, and the gun went off.
Poole died at the scene.
Boy, 14, held in shooting deaths of two men at Oregon hunting camp
By Jonathan Kaminsky
Thu Oct 3, 2013 9:46pm EDT
(Reuters) – A 14-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed two men at a remote deer hunting cabin in northeastern Oregon, authorities said Thursday, before accidentally shooting himself in the leg while attempting to flee.
Grant County Sheriff’s deputies went to the private camp outside the town of Granite early Thursday morning and found two men dead and
the boy duct-taped to a chair by another camp occupant, Sheriff Glenn Palmer said in a written statement.
Both the 14-year-old and the victims, aged 43 and 64, were from the Baker City area of Oregon. The victims’ names were not released pending notification of their families, the statement said, and the boy’s name was withheld due to his age.
According to the sheriff’s statement, the boy fled the cabin on foot after shooting the two men, then accidentally shot himself in the leg. He returned to the cabin to plead for help, the statement said, and was held at gunpoint and then duct-taped by the other occupant to a chair until police arrived.
The owner of the cabin fled the scene after the shooting and called police, the statement said.
After being treated at a local hospital, the boy was flown to the St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, for further treatment. His condition was not immediately available.
State and local police are investigating the shooting, the statement said.
Oregon State Police spokesman Lt. Gregg Hastings declined to comment on the case. The Grant County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
[Bad enough that so many fathers are out to corrupt their young teen’s natural affinity toward animals, but at least they could be sure to unload the weapons at the end of the day just so no one gets shot while packing them back into their vehicle.]
http://lakelander.com/teen-shot-in-hunting-accident-p6003-1.htm
A 13-year-old Fort Worth boy is expected to recover after being shot in an apparent hunting accident near Whitney over the weekend.
The teen was packing up after hog hunting with his father and another father and son in the 300 block of Hill County Road 1263 around 9 p.m. Saturday, September 21, when the shooting occurred, according to Hill County Sheriff’s Office reports.
A weapon apparently discharged as the group was loading gear into the back of a vehicle, according to Lieutenant Kyle Cox. The boy was struck by a bullet in the lower abdomen.
He was transported to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth by CareFlite air ambulance and is reported to be in good condition, according to Lieutenant Cox.
Whitney Fire Rescue first responders were called to the scene, along with Sergeant Adam Tovar of the Hill County Sheriff’s Office and Game Warden Doug Volcik.
Everyone in the group resides in Fort Worth but owns property locally, according to sheriff’s office reports.
Lieutenant Cox said the shooting is currently being investigated as an accident and no charges have been filed at this time.
Cheney’s gun malfunctioned during an antelope hunting contest in Wyoming. But, unlike the former No. 2’s 2006 hunting accident, nobody was hurt this time.
By Adam Edelman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Photo Copyright Jim Robertson
Published: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 .
Former Vice President Dick Cheney suffered another hunting accident over the weekend, but this time nobody was injured.
Cheney’s gun malfunctioned during an antelope hunting contest Sunday in his native Wyoming, preventing the former lawmaker from getting his shot off.
Cheney said the gun failed due to a “problem with the manufacturer.”
“I don’t take it personally,” he told Wyoming’s K2TV. “I’m sure there was a small problem with the manufacturer. But I will be back next year.”
Cheney, an avid hunter, nearly killed his hunting partner in 2006 in a another shooting accident.
Cheney seriously injured Harry Whittington, his quail hunting partner after he accidentally shot him in the face, neck and chest.
Whittington, a Texas lawyer and contributor to the Bush-Cheney campaign, suffered a heart attack during the incident but ultimately survived.
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