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DETROIT – One Michigan brother accidentally shot another while hunting together on Saturday, police said.
At around 5:30 p.m. deputies responded to a field in Boston Township, Michigan, for a report of an accidental shooting.
The brothers were looking for a deer that one of the brothers had shot earlier but became separated during a search in the dense corn, the sheriff's office said.
One brother, a 29-year-old, thought he saw and heard the deer moving and fired his muzzle loading rifle. The man, realizing he shot his brother, a 28-year-old, and not the deer, immediately called 911.
The injured brother was flown to a hospital where he is listed in serious but stable condition.
The deer was not located. The investigation is ongoing.
This wasn't the only hunting accident as the season opened in Michigan. Police say two boys ages 4 and 6 were injured when a gun discharged while their father was preparing to go hunting. how is this possible ?
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DETROIT – One Michigan brother accidentally shot another while hunting together on Saturday, police said.
At around 5:30 p.m. deputies responded to a field in Boston Township, Michigan, for a report of an accidental shooting.
The brothers were looking for a deer that one of the brothers had shot earlier but became separated during a search in the dense corn, the sheriff's office said.
One brother, a 29-year-old, thought he saw and heard the deer moving and fired his muzzle loading rifle. The man, realizing he shot his brother, a 28-year-old, and not the deer, immediately called 911.
The injured brother was flown to a hospital where he is listed in serious but stable condition.
The deer was not located. The investigation is ongoing.
This wasn't the only hunting accident as the season opened in Michigan. Police say two boys ages 4 and 6 were injured when a gun discharged while their father was preparing to go hunting. how is this possible ? Sound shots. And by being a dumb ass.
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I would have thought it was dark at around 5:30 PM in Michigan. Maybe past legal shooting time.
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Being a total dumbass and not being 100% sure of what you are shooting. You can't take that shot back once you pull the trigger.
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Yep, the so called "sound shot" some idiots will loose.
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The Doc told him that his brother would have probably made it if he hadn't gutted him and tied him to the roof of the car.............
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Being a total dumbass and not being 100% sure of what you are shooting. You can't take that shot back once you pull the trigger. 100%, it's all about muzzle control.
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The Doc told him that his brother would have probably made it if he hadn't gutted him and tied him to the roof of the car............. That's a take off of an old Aggie joke...  DF
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I won’t pass judgement until I see a picture of the brother.
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As I always taught in Hunter Ed, "If you shoot at a rustle in the bushes, it might be Russell."
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The shooter''s son apologized. "Sorry Uncle Buck".
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I would have thought it was dark at around 5:30 PM in Michigan. Maybe past legal shooting time.
If he shined him, for sure his eyes weren't far enough apart to be a deer...  Shouldn't be kidding about a disastrous accident. Hope the brothers recover, the one shot and the one who did the shooting. They're both damaged. DF
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I would have thought it was dark at around 5:30 PM in Michigan. Maybe past legal shooting time.
This was my first thought. Pitch black dark in standing corn and your going to shoot at a sound when you know your brother is out there some where. Duhhhh.
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It doesn't really count since he wasn't using a firearm.
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It doesn't really count since he wasn't using a firearm. Tell the shot brother that...
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Hard to do when you have to verify width of rack wider than ears and at least 3 points on a side where I usually hunt.
Brown downers and dinkers shooting each other. No trigger restraint, fools, no sympathy
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It seems that this happens in Michigan every year.
Lived there when I was a kid and my dad refeused to go hunting during rifle season - bow only. Too many jugheads hunt in the morning, drive into town to watch the game at a bar during lunch and down some drinks and head back to blind. He swore he saw that in every town in Michigan during hunting season, and we'd have these reports every year.
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Happened on my clients land talked to him this morning and he said it was almost dark.
Guy obviously didn’t verify his target.
Damned shame.
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That’s horrible, How in the hell is that possible? Novice hunter??
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The article says that the deputies responded at 5:30. The shooting obviously took place some amount of time before that.
Reading comprehension seems to match that guy's hunting skills.
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