A hunter falls from his treestand and battles for his life.
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A hunter falls from his treestand and battles for his life.
It seemed like a hard and fast case: hunter shoots neighbor while hunting after hours. Neighbor dies. Hunter is convicted. Or is he? Not in the case of a New York deer hunter who shot and killed his neighbor last November after legal hunting hours had ended, thinking she was a deer.
No matter how you hunt in your treestand, getting it up and safely secured against the tree on stable ground is of paramount importance.