Here is a story from GazetteOnline.com on a 16 year old raccoon hunter that was injured hunting…unfortunate.
Raccoon hunter, 16, shot accidentally
A 16-year-old Dumont boy is recovering from injuries sustained late Saturday night in a raccoon hunting accident near Waverly, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said.
Mathew Allen was hunting raccoons with a group at Cedar [...]

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This is a press release from the Iowa DNR.
MOUNT PLEASANT MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FALL FROM STAND

MOUNT PLEASANT – A Mount Pleasant man received serious injuries after falling from a deer stand on Tuesday.

John W. “Willy” Amos, 37, was hunting deer when he fell from the elevated stand he was hunting from shortly after 10 [...]

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