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Rappahannock chalked up its second hunting accident of the season on Thanksgiving Day. One accident had occurred near Amissville during squirrel season making the rating here high statistically. Game Warden Irvin L. Kenyon said in the four hunting seasons that he has served in this county, only one minor accident had occurred previously.
On Thanksgiving Day near Flint Hill, Robert Burke of Catlett sustained a superficial wound on his lower stomach from the rifle fire of Doug Calhoun of Front Royal. Both men were deer hunting and were each unaware of the other’s presence. A deer was spotted; Calhoun shot at it and the deer ran into a brush and honeysuckle patch. Calhoun fired the second time into the brush in which Burke was hiding dressed in rather camouflaged clothing. The bullet ripped through his coat, struck his belt, went through outer and underclothing and grazed his abdomen. The wound required seven stitches administered by Dr. Dennis P. McCarthy in Front Royal, and Burke was released.
A total of 35 hunting accidents have been reported in Virginia so far this season, five of them fatal which is below the number reported by this time last season, reports Game Commission Safety Officer J. N. Kerrick. Last year’s total of 69 did set an unwelcome state record. Twelve of the accidents involved hunters mistaken for game and nine were self 'inflicted. More than half occurred at short range in light to open cover and under good visibility. Twenty-seven of the
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