As for how many hunters are shot by another hunter, it is hard to determine. As the area (country - Canada, USA, etc), the type of injury (fatal or nonfatal). Example is Alabama 2007 there were 4 accidents involving hunters, 3 nonfatal, of that 2 where not self inflected, and 1 was fatal self inflected.
Using Hunter Incident Clearing House information 2007, there was 220 Nonfatal, and 19 fatal accidents involving a firearm (shotgun, rifle, handgun). The statistics where from Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virgina, Georgia, Texas, Nebraska, Indiana, Louisiana, California, Tennessee, Alabama, Ontario, Utah, and South Carolina. The highest accident being in Michigan with 33 and lowest South Carolina with 1. There were various major factors for the accident: shooter, swinging on game, failure to identify target, careless handing of firearm, victim out of sight of shooter, victim moved into line of fire, failure to check beyond target, trigger caught on object, shooter stumbled, plus many other reasons.
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