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• Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Date: November 10, 2007
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• Bylines: Ben Poston
• Topics: Hunting
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: An estimated 650,000 hunters, many with high-powered rifles, will saturate the fields and forests of Wisconsin when deer-hunting season opens Saturday. They will track game at a time when hunting has never been safer in Wisconsin. But a Journal Sentinel analysis shows the percentage of accidents caused by hunters 21 and younger in 2006 was the highest since 1999. And in the past five years, those young hunters were more than twice as likely to cause hunting accidents than all other hunters. The analysis also finds that deer drives remain a dangerous method of hunting, accounting for more than half of all deer-hunting accidents since the 1999 season.
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