December 1, 2015
From TheBayNet.com
Port Tobacco, MD – On the first day of the two-week firearms season — Maryland’s most popular deer season — officers issued 30 citations and 39 warnings, and seized three deer during statewide enforcement efforts. They checked 141 hunters. A serious injury to a hunter occurred in Southern Maryland.
According to Maryland Natural Resources Police, on Saturday, Nov. 28, Daniel Patrick Rice, 34, was the victim of a hunting accident when his muzzleloader exploded and caused substantial injury to his left hand. The victim was deer hunting in the woods behind his house.