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Michigan's 16-day firearm deer hunt gets under way

Published: November 15, 2012 Comment on this article

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hunters have taken to the field across Michigan with the opening of the state's 16-day firearm deer season, but with limits for hunters across much of the southern part of the Lower Peninsula.

photo - Randal Brainerd, of Kalamazoo, Mich. shows off a buck with a double drop tine set of antlers he shot in Alamo Township of the first day of firearm deer season Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 at the DNR check in Plainwell, Mich.(AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

Randal Brainerd, of Kalamazoo, Mich. shows off a buck with a double drop tine set of antlers he shot in Alamo Township of the first day of firearm deer season Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 at the DNR check in Plainwell, Mich.(AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

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Hunters in that part of the state can't kill as many deer as usual because of an insect-spread deer disease.

Firearm deer hunting season started Thursday and runs through Nov. 30.

So far, one human death has been reported, a hunter apparently asphyxiated by fumes from a propane heater he was using to heat his van in Mason County.

The Ludington Daily News says the 54-year-old Zeeland man was found dead Thursday morning. His name wasn't immediately released.

The new limits on antlerless deer hunting are a response to epizootic hemorrhagic disease.