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Deer Hunt 2012

Photos: Buck Tales 2012

Northeast Wisconsin hunters share their prize deer.

Hunters register 243,000 deer this fall

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Man fatally shot by hunting partner

Updated: Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012, 10:53 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012, 6:02 AM CST

TOWN OF SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - Authorities say a man was accidentally shot and killed by his hunting partner in Douglas County.

Sheriff's officials say the shooting happened about 5 p.m. Monday in the town of Superior - a few miles east of the Wisconsin-Minnesota border.

Deputies and fire and rescue personnel used machinery to cut brush and an all-terrain vehicle to get access to the victim in the woods.