December 3, 2012
From WCFCourier.com
NORA SPRINGS, Iowa --- A rural Mason City man was hospitalized
Sunday after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot
while deer hunting Sunday afternoon.
Jeffrey A. Esser, 29,
was moving through heavy brush southeast of Nora Springs in Floyd
County when the .12-gauge shotgun he was carrying discharged hitting
in the right foot at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday
Overall,
five people were injured, none fatally, on Sunday, the second day of
the shotgun deer season in Iowa. So far this year, there have been a
total of 11 personal injury hunting-related incidents reported to
the DNR.
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