# Hunter found shot in deer stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Hunting\ **Created:** [October 23, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664 "2025-10-23T02:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BRUCE26](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/bruce26/32/111546_2.png) [@BRUCE26](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BRUCE26)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/1 "2025-10-23T02:15:57Z")
# [Hunter found shot in deer stand - but it wasn’t hunting related, SC officials say](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand-but-it-wasn-t-hunting-related-sc-officials-say/ar-AA1OZE5j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68f98caade1748b7bc4cb3617e7a9e76&ei=103) **Know your target and what’s behind it.** A hunter in upstate South Carolina was mysteriously [shot in his deer stand](https://www.facebook.com/AndersonSheriff/posts/pfbid02gPTG97qEWSLG9Tix6dW6NTceFST7nCbZMJhVNTspUhtjj8N5ggm7MeJCR1e2TZxkl), 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. ---
**Author:** ![BeanCounter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/beancounter/32/173526_2.png) [@BeanCounter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BeanCounter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/2 "2025-10-23T03:25:09Z")
Yikes. 😬 ---
**Author:** ![BRUCE26](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/bruce26/32/111546_2.png) [@BRUCE26](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BRUCE26)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/3 "2025-10-23T03:28:37Z")
That “family member” better 💋 his 🫏 for the rest of his life. 😘 ---
**Author:** ![BeanCounter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/beancounter/32/173526_2.png) [@BeanCounter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BeanCounter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/4 "2025-10-23T05:00:32Z")
In vino veritas 🍷 ---
**Author:** ![Trever1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/trever1/32/134369_2.png) [@Trever1](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Trever1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/5 "2025-10-23T11:30:35Z")
Dumbassery strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![Brad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/brad/32/9565_2.png) [@Brad](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Brad)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/6 "2025-10-23T12:53:49Z")
Can’t government still sue? ---
**Author:** ![Stuart\_Bradley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/stuart_bradley/32/180728_2.png) [@Stuart\_Bradley](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Stuart_Bradley)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/7 "2025-10-23T13:08:56Z")
Just my inner Paul Harvey surfacing, but my guess is that we need to hear the rest of the story. ---
**Author:** ![BeanCounter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/beancounter/32/173526_2.png) [@BeanCounter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BeanCounter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/8 "2025-10-23T16:34:43Z")
> [@Stuart\_Bradley](#): > > we need to hear the rest of the story. I’m sure it would come out at some point 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![BruceE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/brucee/32/77365_2.png) [@BruceE](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BruceE)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/9 "2025-10-23T17:00:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Don102](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/don102/32/165939_2.png) [@Don102](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Don102)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/10 "2025-10-23T17:26:21Z")
> [@BruceE](#): > > Maybe when he finally got home after the incident, his wife came up to him and said “I missed you.” ‘I Missed you!’ OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you went there! OH DEER! I CAN’T **'STAND** ’ it! Cousin ‘Bob’ is forever banned from family Reunions! ---
**Author:** ![deranged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deranged](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/deranged)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/11 "2025-10-23T17:44:28Z")
🤔 Well I guess it’s good that the deer haven’t started shooting back? ---
**Author:** ![Don102](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/don102/32/165939_2.png) [@Don102](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Don102)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/12 "2025-10-23T17:58:02Z")
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 ? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Stuart\_Bradley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/stuart_bradley/32/180728_2.png) [@Stuart\_Bradley](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Stuart_Bradley)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/13 "2025-10-23T21:22:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BeanCounter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.usconcealedcarry.com/beancounter/32/173526_2.png) [@BeanCounter](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BeanCounter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/hunter-found-shot-in-deer-stand/120664/14 "2025-10-23T22:29:05Z")
> [@Stuart\_Bradley](#): > > lazy journalists In fairness to the writer, he/she wasn’t a journalist, possibly just the media relations officer of Anderson County Sheriff’s Office SC.