It was just a couple of weeks ago the Wisconsin’s elected officials did away with those pesky age minimums for hunting. Now, anybody and everybody can learn to hunt—even toddlers! The Star Tribune reports that opening day of the deer hunting season in Wisconsin is a reminder to everyone, that guns don’t kill people...guns with bullets that hit people, kill people.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Recreational Safety Warden Mark Little says the first happened in Brown County about 5:30 a.m. Saturday. A 49-year-old man was working on his firearm when it discharged into his right ankle.
The second happened after 9 a.m. in Forest County. A 49-year-old Crandon man was sitting in the cab of his truck when he saw a deer. When the hunter went to move his rifle, it went off, sending a bullet through his legs and then the truck's seat and door.
USA Today explains that another 51-year-old man shot himself in the leg when his holstered gun
went off because he was “bending over.” There is also this sad result of the first day of hunting season.
Another call of a dead hunter came in to the sheriff's department around the same time, this one in Newton when a man found his 57-year-old son dead in his ground blind, Wastart said. That man was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:52 p.m.
The man died of a gunshot wound, but Wastart declined to give further details. Authorities are not searching for another shooter, he said.
This deer hunt will last nine days with around 600,000 hunters searching for deer.