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Muscatine County hunter hurt by self-inflicted gunshot
Associated Press
Dec. 19, 2010 2:45 pm
A Muscatine man was hurt by a self-inflicted gunshot would while hunting deer in Muscatine County.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says 41-year-old Darin Peterson was flown Sunday to an Iowa City hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The department says Peterson was preparing to climb into a tree stand northeast of Muscatine when his gun went off, hitting him in the upper thigh.
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