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Teen deer hunter shot, killed after wrapping self in brown-and-white blanket
Last weekend's opening of Wisconsin's gun deer season "was the safest on record," the Appleton Post-Crescent reports today. And then: the bad news.
"The lone accidental shooting came in Waushara County, where an 18-year-old hunter was shot by his grandfather," the paper reports. The local sheriff told the paper the teen "was wearing blaze orange clothing, but had wrapped himself in a brown and white blanket and was walking through a wooded area when he was shot about 8:30 a.m. Sunday."
The teen's blanket is not an excuse, said Tim Lawhern, the hunter safety coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. "You can't say, 'I thought I was shooting at a deer,' and it not be a deer. You have to know," he said.
Wisconsin has averaged seven accidental shootings a year over the last 11 opening weekends of the season, the newspaper reports. (The Post-Crescent, like USA TODAY, is owned by Gannett.)
