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CUMBERLAND (AP) -- Wardens say a hunter was shot on the first day of Maine's waterfowl hunting season.
Spokeswoman Deborah Turcotte of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said a pheasant hunter was hit in the chest by a shotgun pellet Thursday morning on Chebeague Island, near Portland in Casco Bay.
Wardens say 59-year-old James Morrill's injury was minor, but he transported to Maine Medical Center.
Turcotte says Morrill was hunting with three friends when one of them fired at a pheasant that had come out of the underbrush. One of the pellets hit Morrill, who had gone into some lilac bushes and underbrush with his dog.
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