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Hunting Accidents
Last Year Total 79
A total of 79 hunting accidents, 13 of them fatal, made the 1970-71 fiscal year the worst on record in Virginia, even surpassing the record 69 injuries and deaths of the previous year, reports Game Commission Safely Officer J. N. Kerrick. Of those involved both as shooters and victims, 5 were graduates of the Hunter Safety Course sponsored jointly by the Game Commission and the National Rifle Association.
As usual, various examples of careless gun handling accounted for over half of the accidents affecting 43 victims. Of all the single causes, 19 persons mistaken for game led the list. Victims concealed by brush, covered by a shooter swinging on game or moving into the line of fire were also high up on the list. Loading and unloading firearms and putting them into or removing them from vehicles were prime times for accidents to happen. Most other accidents involved dropping loaded weapons or jarring them while the muzzle pointed at the victim. Unsafe weapons contributed to some accidents. Twenty-two of the injuries were self-inflicted. In one instance a hunter was sitting on a log with a squirrel tail dangling from his hunting coat pocket when another hunter cut loose at the waving tail raking his left arm and face with shot and injuring his eye. In another case, three hunters were sitting beside a tree with a dog between them when another hunter blasted the dog with bird shot thinking it was a turkey,, spraying the hunters with shot. Two of the 29 accidents occurred in Rappahanocck County. One victim was mistaken for game. The other was covered by a shooter swinging on game. Neither was fatal.
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