Area hunter accidently shot in leg

A 30-year old Taylor County man is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted on November 24 while hunting in the 9-day gun deer season.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Wardens, the incident occurred about mid-day on private land near Rib Lake with a .300 semi automatic rifle.

According to the DNR, hunters were participating in a deer drive. At the end of the drive one of the drivers became a poster. Two drivers remained, kicked up two deer and the deer ran toward the poster. The poster, a 35-year old man, took a shot at the deer and struck a different member of the hunting party.

The incident was one of three hunting injury incidents reported by the DNR statewide during the annual gun deer season.

The first occurred in Forest County on public land on the morning of November 18 with a 53-year old walking to his tree stand and went to adjust a rifle sling over his midsection. While he was adjusting the sling, he pulled the trigger discharging the rifle into his right foot.

The second incident of the gun deer season, occurred on November 19 in the morning with a hunter in Adams County. The shooter was hunting from their vehicle with a 30.06 semi-automatic rifle on private property and shot at a dog, which he believed was an antlerless deer. The victim, a 47-year-old woman, had been walking that dog and was shot in her thigh.

Beyond the gunshot wound, sheriff Larry Woebbeking said the season was fairly quiet in respect to law enforcement with a total of five trespassing complaints for the week of the gun-deer season.