This time a hunter was shot in the face:
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Another year, another hunting accident on Nantucket
- Thread starter M1911
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Do you know any more details? I'm curious how it happened.
Notice that the wording of the article does not rule out that he shot himself in the face...![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
I noticed that, too.
hubby was talking to an LEO at a checking station @ Otis... he had said it was a shot in the neck w/a slug, by someone else, but who knows... (this was yesterday). i'll have to ask him for more details
Wouldn't surprise me. The scrub on Nantucket is so thick that someone could be 25' away and you would never know they were there.
I hope the fellow recovers. If he drove himself to the hospital, I'm guessing it was a glancing blow, because a 12 gauge slug directly to the neck would probably not be survivable.
that's what i was thinking-- when he told me that, my first words were "wow- there probably isn't much left of his neck, but he's lucky"
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Let me set this straight for everyone else.
As someone who has first hand knowledge of this incident let me be clear with these FACTS.
1. The hunter did not shoot himself.
2 The hunter was not shot in the face and not shot with a slug. He was hit just behind his left temple and the buckshot pellet traveled between his scalp and skull along the left side of his head and exited near the back of his head,towards the nape of his neck.
3. The hunter did not drive himself to the hospital. A friend of his drove him there.
4. Dont ever expect the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror to ever get the facts straight, on even the simplest of stories.
Let me set this straight for everyone else.
As someone who has first hand knowledge of this incident let me be clear with these FACTS.
1. The hunter did not shoot himself.
2 The hunter was not shot in the face and not shot with a slug. He was hit just behind his left temple and the buckshot pellet traveled between his scalp and skull along the left side of his head and exited near the back of his head,towards the nape of his neck.
3. The hunter did not drive himself to the hospital. A friend of his drove him there.
4. Dont ever expect the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror to ever get the facts straight, on even the simplest of stories.
I vacation on MV. I've hunted on Nantucket. It's thicker on Nantucket. You just won't believe it until you've tried to crawl through it.
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