Hunter found shot in deer stand

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Hunter found shot in deer stand - but it wasn’t hunting related, SC officials say

Know your target and what’s behind it.

A hunter in upstate South Carolina was mysteriously shot in his deer stand, and investigators have determined the stray bullet did not come from another hunter nor was it self-inflicted.

The shooting happened late Saturday, Oct. 18, near Broadway Lake in the Anderson area, and the hunter, a 30-year-old man, was seriously hurt, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

“When we arrived on scene, we found the victim had been shot in their deer stand,” the sheriff’s office said. “The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) took the lead as the incident involved a hunter. … SCDNR determined that the incident in question was not hunting-related.”

The evidence pointed in a far more unusual direction: a family member.

“Information gathered by detectives led them to believe that family members of the victim were involved,” the sheriff’s office said.

“After a thorough review of the evidence and following later confessions, it was determined that a family member had negligently discharged a firearm from an adjoining property without a proper backstop, which resulted in the victim being struck.”

However, “after a few days of discussion, the victim has chosen not to press charges against their family member,” the sheriff’s office said.

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Yikes. :grimacing:

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That “family member” better :kiss_mark: his :donkey: for the rest of his life. :face_blowing_a_kiss:

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In vino veritas :wine_glass:

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Dumbassery strikes again.

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Can’t government still sue?

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Just my inner Paul Harvey surfacing, but my guess is that we need to hear the rest of the story.

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I’m sure it would come out at some point :clinking_beer_mugs:

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Maybe the “Family Member” was trying to off the hunter and missed.

Maybe when he finally got home after the incident, his wife came up to him and said “I missed you.”

Well, she did hit him…

Oh, just forget about it.

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‘I Missed you!’ OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you went there!
OH DEER!
I CAN’T 'STAND’ it!
Cousin ‘Bob’ is forever banned from family Reunions!

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:thinking: Well I guess it’s good that the deer haven’t started shooting back?

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YET!
Human hunting season starts TODAY!
It costs ‘BUCKS’ to get a license
but Deer are Hoofing it to the Register’s office… Or are they High-Tailing it ? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Sorry, but this is one of the things that lazy journalists do that drives me insane.

The hunter was not “shot in their deer stand.” The hunter was shot while in the deer stand, or maybe the hunter in the deer stand was shot. The hunter in question does not have a part of his or her body called a deer stand and was not shot in that imaginary body part.

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In fairness to the writer, he/she wasn’t a journalist, possibly just the media relations officer of Anderson County Sheriff’s Office SC.

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