Better Safe Than Sorry

Sadly, it happens every year. Usually more than once. Reports of deer hunters injured (or worse) by falls from tree stands circulate the Internet as reminders that you can never be too safe out there.

One of the latest reports comes out of Georgia, where a 46-year-old deer hunter was pronounced dead at the scene after his body was found in the woods of Putnam County near a climbing tree stand.

The October incident is under investigation, but authorities told the Union-Recorder newspaper that it appeared the man had fallen from a tree when the climbing stand he was using broke or malfunctioned.