July 7, 2012
By Sally York, Argus-Press.com
CALEDONIA TWP. —
Fifteen-year-old Jeff Meihls has always wanted to be a Major League
Baseball player, and he’s not about to be stopped by a hunting
accident last fall that left him with only one hand.
In the
early afternoon of Nov. 23, 2011, Jeff and his dad went deer hunting
on South Ruess Road, as they’d done together many times before. But
instead of their usual routine of waiting quietly in a deer stand,
they headed down to the river, tipped off by workers in the area
that two deer were nearby.
Jeff handed his father his
shotgun “and my footing slipped,” Meihls said. “The gun fell on the
ground and discharged.”
A bullet penetrated Jeff’s right
wrist, creating a hole so large “I could see through his wrist,”
Meihls said. “I knew from the start he was going to lose his hand.”
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