Just so happened to be checking on some information today in regard to Hunting -Realted Shooting Incidents on the PGC site. Here is some interesting information that I had come across.
There has been a total of 15 Hunting - Related Shooting Incidents under the title Species Hunted - Furbearer since 1991 thru 2005. There where no Furbearer Hunting Shooting Related Incidents in the following years. 1991, 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2004. The highest total of Furbearer Incidents occurred in the year 1993 with a total of 3 Non Fatal.
Furbearer Non-Fatal totals 14
Furbearer Fatal 1 - as listed in the 1999 Incident Statistics.
Does anybody know in what County this Fatal Furbearer Incident occurred?
Total of all Incidents (Non Fatal & Fatal) by Species Hunted 1991 - 2005
Small Game 468
Deer 379
Turkey 326
Waterfowl 21
Other 16
Furbearer 15
Bear 6
A hunting-related shooting incident is defined as an occurrence when a person is injured as the result of the discharge of a fire arm or bow and arrow while hunting or trapping.
Records dating back to 1915 have been kept by the PGC in order to track these incidents. For comparative purposes, the PGC tracks trends in hunting-related shooting incidents by measuring the accident rate per 100,000 participants. In PA hunting related shooting incidents have declined by nearly 80 percent since hunter education training began in 1959.
If interested, Additional information can be viewed on the PGC site
www.pgc.state.pa.us click on Education - Hunting Related Shooting Incidents.
Tom
