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PA: 2003 was safer year for hunters
Josey1
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2003 was safer year for hunters
By GEORGE SMITH
georges@leader.net
Last year was the safest hunting year overall in the 90 years that such records have been kept by the state Game Commission, but not since 1998 were there more fatal incidents.
According to the Game Commission, there were 57 hunting-related shooting incidents - including four fatals - in 2003. The incident rate of 5.63 per 100,000 participants was the lowest on record, according to the commission.
While eight fatal accidents occurred in 1998, four also occurred in 1999. In the last 12 years the most fatal incidents, nine, occurred in 1991, a year which had the most hunting incidents for the period - 136.
A hunting-related shooting incident is defined as any occurrence in which a person is injured as the result of a discharge of a firearm or bow and arrow during hunting or trapping activities.
Centerfire rifles were employed in two of the fatals in 2003, a rimfire rifle was used in another, and a 12-gauge shotgun was responsible for the fourth.
In 2003, the incident statistics by species hunted were: deer, 25 (including three fatalities); small game, 17; wild turkey, 11; furbearer, two; bear, one; and waterfowl, one, (a fatal incident).
People shot in the line-of-fire comprised 19 of the hunting-related shooting incidents, including two fatalities. The second most common cause for shooting incidents was because the sporting arm was in a dangerous position, which accounted for 11 incidents, including two fatalities.
In-mistake-for-game incidents accounted for eight incidents, followed by: unintentional discharge, six; ricochet, three; stray shot, two; dropped sporting arm, two; slipped and/or fell, one; and other, five.
Of the 57 incidents, there were 44 incidents inflicted by another hunter, including three fatalities. The remaining 13 incidents were self-inflicted, including one fatal self-inflicted injury.
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/thetimesleader/sports/8774769.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>
By GEORGE SMITH
georges@leader.net
Last year was the safest hunting year overall in the 90 years that such records have been kept by the state Game Commission, but not since 1998 were there more fatal incidents.
According to the Game Commission, there were 57 hunting-related shooting incidents - including four fatals - in 2003. The incident rate of 5.63 per 100,000 participants was the lowest on record, according to the commission.
While eight fatal accidents occurred in 1998, four also occurred in 1999. In the last 12 years the most fatal incidents, nine, occurred in 1991, a year which had the most hunting incidents for the period - 136.
A hunting-related shooting incident is defined as any occurrence in which a person is injured as the result of a discharge of a firearm or bow and arrow during hunting or trapping activities.
Centerfire rifles were employed in two of the fatals in 2003, a rimfire rifle was used in another, and a 12-gauge shotgun was responsible for the fourth.
In 2003, the incident statistics by species hunted were: deer, 25 (including three fatalities); small game, 17; wild turkey, 11; furbearer, two; bear, one; and waterfowl, one, (a fatal incident).
People shot in the line-of-fire comprised 19 of the hunting-related shooting incidents, including two fatalities. The second most common cause for shooting incidents was because the sporting arm was in a dangerous position, which accounted for 11 incidents, including two fatalities.
In-mistake-for-game incidents accounted for eight incidents, followed by: unintentional discharge, six; ricochet, three; stray shot, two; dropped sporting arm, two; slipped and/or fell, one; and other, five.
Of the 57 incidents, there were 44 incidents inflicted by another hunter, including three fatalities. The remaining 13 incidents were self-inflicted, including one fatal self-inflicted injury.
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/thetimesleader/sports/8774769.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878<P>