Elbow Lake deer hunter is shot in chest and dies

An Elbow Lake, Minn., hunter died after he was shot in the chest on Saturday, the opening day of the firearms deer-hunting season.

Last update: November 3, 2007 - 7:19 PM

An Elbow Lake, Minn., hunter died after he was shot in the chest on Saturday, the opening day of the firearms deer-hunting season.

The 60-year-old man, whose name was not available Saturday night, was "posting," or waiting for deer to emerge, as others in his hunting party flushed them out of tall grass in a slough area about a mile and a half southeast of Elbow Lake, said Grant County Sheriff Dwight Walvatne.

The accident was reported just after 9:30 a.m.; the man was taken to Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, where he died. Ramsey County will perform the autopsy; the Grant County Sheriff's Office and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are investigating.

"It takes some time to figure out where bullet came from," Walvatne said.

MARIA ELENA BACA

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