Posted December 4, 2015 5:00 am by Comments

By Vanessa Torres

Nontypical Deer
Michigan DNR Conservation Officer Finds Lost Hunter in Mackinac County
Michigan DNR
Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan -(Ammoland.com)- A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer located a missing hunter who had become lost after leaving his hunting blind to track a wounded deer in Mackinac County.

The 67-year-old man from Sault Ste. Marie, whose name was not released, had been hunting in Clark Township Sunday afternoon, a few miles northeast of Cedarville.

The hunter wounded a deer sometime Sunday afternoon. In searching for the animal, the man became disoriented as daylight began to diminish. At about 4:50 p.m. he called 911 from his cellphone, reporting he was lost.

Cellphone service in the area is spotty, and the man considered himself fortunate to have had a signal to get a call out.

Deputies from the Mackinac County Sheriff’s Office and Clark Township Fire Department personnel responded to the scene and began searching.

DNR conservation officer Jon Busken heard radio traffic about the search effort and soon arrived to help.

Busken and a sheriff’s deputy sounded their sirens from separate locations to try to signal the lost hunter. Deputies were able to contact the man on his cellphone. He said …Read the Rest

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