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Indiana Conservation Officers investigated two separate hunting accidents Dec 1 which hospitalized the victims.
Jason Dudley (46) of South Bend and Joseph Morehead (60) of Milford sustained serious injuries when each hunter fell from their deer hunting tree stands.
Jason Dudley’s hunting partner heard a crash about 150 yards from where he was hunting and found Dudley lying at the base of his tree. He fell approximately 15 feet.
The partner called 911 and Dudley was transported to Memorial Hospital in South Bend and treated for facial lacerations and right shoulder and back pain. He was not wearing a safety harness.
Morehead was also hunting with a partner approximately 50 yards apart when he fell while attempting to descend from the tree. Morehead was wearing a harness but it was not attached to the tree as he began his descent. Morehead used a tree branch as a hand-hold as he was attempting to lower his foot to the metal foot pegs he was using when the branch broke.
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A young Warsaw deer hunter is lucky to be alive after surviving a freak accident when his tree stand gave out and left him hanging upside down on the Tri County Fish and Wildlife Area in Kosciusko County last week.
Clarence "Daven" Gasaway’s deer stand broke causing him to fall backwards and become stuck upside down in the remaining foot platform of his stand for 30 minutes.
The quick response of local and state officials likely saved Gasaway from serious injury or even death, as hanging upside down for an extended period can cause loss of consciousness and asphyxia if left in this position for too long.
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By Pat Kleppert
(Editor’s note: Southwest Michigan deer hunter Pat Kleppert has chronicled his hunting season in a region plagued by the EHD virus.)
Pat KleppertThis season has been a struggle. The lack of older bucks and does makes it tough to motivate myself to get up early and climb into a tree every day.
I haven't hunted as much as I had hoped and that is certainly due to the lack of deer here in eastern Cass County. While there are deer being harvested in my area, the numbers are way down. I stopped at Scott's Deer Processing in Jones and he said that his numbers are certainly down from previous years. He did have a few in the cooler and some ready to smoke.
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Michigan DNR Director Keith Creagh signed an emergency order this week that decreases antlerless license purchase limits for deer management units (DMUs) where the most EHD-related die-offs have occurred. Unfortunately, this has been a common site in Michiana ponds, swamps, creeks and lakes. EHD inflicted deer often seek comfort in water to offset high fevers they suffer while battling the deadly virus. (Michigan DNR photo)
Effective immediately, the purchase limit for DMU 486 is five private land antlerless deer hunting licenses per hunter. Also effective immediately, the public antlerless license purchase limit per hunter is two for each of the following DMUs: 012 (Branch), 034 (Ionia), 039 (Kalamazoo), 041 (Kent), 044 (Lapeer), 076 (Sanilac), 078 (Shiawassee), 079 (Tuscola) and 080 (Van Buren).