NRA Life Insurance

[BattleRifleG3]

Way back when I joined the NRA in 2001, I had a form to fill out for a complementary life insurance policy that provides $10,000 to the next of kin if the policy owner died at an NRA sponsored shooting event or during the practice of legally hunting.

That made me wonder, what would be the most common reasons that people die during hunting? Kind of a morbid question, but it does call attention to various safety concerns. With temperatures dropping painfully low, my guess was that most of the few people who die during hunting do so to the elements, ie exposure. I figure that accidental deaths due to being shot are far far lower than the elements, I tend to assume that exposure due to being disabled by hypothermia, being injured and unable to move to warm areas, being trapped in snow, or falling into water constitutes the post of those policy payments. I'm guessing that behind that are deadly mechanical injuries due to falling or an object falling on a person. I tend to think that being accidentally shot by another would be rare, with deaths at an NRA event being the rarest, prehaps as rare as dangerous animal attacks. As rare as deaths during hunting are, I suppose incidents like the hunting murders in Wisconsin tip the statistics.

Anyone know any statistics on how many people die during hunting and why? Perhaps advice on how to avoid those scenarios? While I haven't gotten to hunt yet, I have some friends who are going hunting for the first time this year, and hope that their experience is the safest possible.