NH hunter shot while using rope to hoist rifle

[Kadie]

NH hunter shot while using rope to hoist rifle

Saturday, October 31, 2009

(10-31) 18:31 PDT Ossipee, N.H. (AP) --

A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon.

A state conservation officer says a branch or stick apparently got stuck in the trigger of Robert Lapointe's .50-caliber muzzleloader, setting it off at around 1:45 p.m. Saturday.

Mark Hensel of the state Fish and Game Department says the 63-year-old from Somersworth was hunting in Ossipee (AH'-sih-pee) on the first day of muzzleloader deer season.

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Hensel says Lapointe is expected to survive, but "shouldn't have been doing what he did."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/31/national/a165803D41.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0VZPmYNTd