This one hits close to home. I talked to Chris at our plant Monday, my boss talked to him Wednesday afternoon.
Things happen fast. All of these accidents are preventable. Always follow basic gun safety rules. It only takes one mistake.
Godspeed Chris
https://www.post-journal.com/news/po...ting-accident/
SUGAR GROVE, Pa. — A man was shot and killed by his own rifle in a hunting accident Thursday morning in Sugar Grove Township, Pa., in Warren County.
The identity of the hunter, who is not a resident of the county, was not released.
According to Dave Donachy, Pennsylvania Game Commission Game Warden, officials were working on contacting the man’s next of kin.
The death involved “a man climbing down from his tree stand with a loaded rifle,” Donachy said. “He attempted to hand the rifle off to a partner. The gun fell and discharged.”
The cause of death was a “single wound to the neck,” Pennsylvania Game Commission Northwest Region Information and Education Supervisor Chip Brunst said.
In the hope of avoiding similar tragic accidents, Brunst said, “always unload your gun when going up or down tree stands.”
Ideally, he suggested using a “haul rope” to move the unloaded firearm up and down.
Slain hunter identified
Cops & Court Report
Dec 14, 2019
Brian Ferry
Staff Reporter
bferry@timesobserver.com
The identity of the hunter killed Thursday in Warren County was released on Friday.
Christopher Oakley, 37, of Franklin, Ten., was pronounced dead Thursday morning at the scene in Sugar Grove Township.
According to Pennsylvania Game Commission Northwest Region Information and Education Supervisor Chip Brunst, Oakley was climbing down out of a tree stand with a loaded rifle. “He took a gunshot wound to the left side of the neck when he dropped the firearm,” Brunst said.
Brunst cautioned hunters to unload their firearms when getting into and out of tree stands and to ideally use ‘haul ropes’ to move the weapons up and down.
“This is our third hunting-related fatal shooting this year,” he said.
Two of those Pennsylvania fatal shootings were self-inflicted.
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