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WITH only 36 hunting mishaps reported by early January, Virginia’s hunting accident rate is thankfully trailing behind the more serious tolls of the past two seasons, reports Game Commission Safety Officer J. N. Herrick.
Last year, a total of 73 persons were injured, some of them fatally in hunting accidents and in 1971 the toll reached 79 by year’s end. /
Most of the 1972 mishaps involved small game hunters, 23 of whom were injured, 5 fatally. Some 27 of the accidents five of which proved fatal involved shotguns. Large caliber rifles were involved in seven accidents, one of which resulted in a fatality.
AS USUAL, most of the , accidents occurred at close range and under con* dltions of good visibility, although these include various aspects of careless gun handling and self-in
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