CHARLES CITY – An afternoon deer hunt ended with a trip to the hospital for a Charles City man. Ryan Alton, 32, was sent to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Sunday evening after being struck in the hip from a slug while deer hunting four miles southwest of Charles City.
The group of five hunters was pushing deer from a grove of evergreens when a hunter took the shot that struck Alton in the left hip.
According to the investigation, the shooter didn’t expect Alton to be located where he was when the deer came through the trees and he didn’t see Alton when he took the shot.
The incident remains under investigation.
7 thoughts on “Charles City hunter shot while stalking deer”
I call BS to the story of getting shot at. If you were bow hunting during the shotgun deer season you were illegal. As there is no bow hunting allowed during shot gun season. Secondly if they did shoot at you why would you not turn them in at 20 yds you should had a good look at them and there vehicle. You sound more like a anti hunter. If they missed you at 20 yds then they are piss poor shots. Not likely two people shooting at you that both would miss and if there was some kind of intent as you are applying why would they run and not finish you off. Is there risk at hunting absolutely just like driving a car or riding a bike. There are more deaths in fishing and bike riding than hunting. This is typical bull from people that type before they think.
The idiot who shot this guy needs to sell his guns to a responsible party, never hunt again and turn in his man card. There is no reason for this kind of stuff to happen. I have seen too much of this bs going on over the nineteen years I have hunted and still have #2 steel shot in my leg from a slob hunter like this. As hunters we need to police our own ranks to. If you have somebody in your group who is less than safe, chew there azz once. If they do it again find new hunting partners. If you see hunters doing illegal stuff call the DNR and be sure to get there license plate and give the best location. Its situations like this article that puts all hunters even the responsible ones in a bad light and costs all of that are hunting rights to property. The number of hunters that get injured by other hunters in Iowa should be zero every year.
Every year some hunter shoots another hunter. These idiots aren’t hunters, they’re simply shooting at anything that moves. You don’t want to be out there with these idiots, it’s not worth it.
Bowhunters in Iowa are not required to wear any type of orange clothing now either. You were very fortunate to not have been shot with the idiots with the shotguns too.
I hunted a couple more hours but haven’t hunted since. I have been thinking of taking it up again just haven’t. Now that I have a bullet proof level 3 vest I might start hunting again.
One deer high fives another deer.
Some hunters don’t take the time to identify the prey before shooting. Years ago while bow hunting, you were not required to wear a vest back then, I just got out of monthly drill with the Guard and I went bow hunting. I was sitting on a log no more than 20 yards from the road. I saw a car pull up and 2 guys getting their shotguns out and started walking my way. I stood up and waved at them and both of them took 2 shots at me. By the time I pulled my head out of the dirt I saw them jumping in their car and driving away really fast. When I was in the 5th grade the school I was in had a hunters saftey course and the main thing they stressed was IDENTIFY before you shoot. Now days a hunters saftey course is NOT politically correct and we are seeing the ramifications of that.