A northwest Oregon sheriff says a 24-year-old St. Helens woman out hunting with a friend suffered a severe leg wound in an apparently accidental shooting.
Sheriff Jeff Dickerson said Lindsay Roub was wounded Friday afternoon when the rifle she had been carrying discharged as she was handing it to her hunting partner.
The sheriff says Roub and 39-year-old Raymond Ozias of St. Helens had been hunting in a rural area a few miles west of Scappoose.
They reportedly were walking down a steep hill in pursuit of a buck. The sheriff says the rifle discharged as Roub asked her friend to take her weapon so she could climb down.
Ozias called for help. Deputies found Roub barely conscious. After treatment by medics, she was carried out of the woods and taken to a Portland hospital.
But, but... I thought you had to be trained in all those thorough safety training classes to be a hunter. And yet, stupid shit like this still happens to those "responsible" gun owners. Interesting, given that you need NO safety training to buy a gun for home use, and minimal safety training (and zero proficiency demonstration) for conceal carry, in Oregon.
ReplyDeleteHunting season starts all over the country. There will be a thinning of the human heard.
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