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Shooting In National Parks - NSW 26-Feb-2013 At 4:20:43 PM technogeekery

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Stats from the USA are difficult, as reporting is state-based, and there is little good information about the USA as a whole. Best I could find is the Hunter Incident Clearinghouse reports http://ihea-usa.org/news-and-events/news/incident-reports?id=147 which attempt to collate stats from all the USA states & Canada. They have published reports from 2002-2007.

Quick summary of that is between 25 & 77 people killed in the USA in hunting accidents in each of those years, and 242-688 shot but not killed. Note that many states do not report hunting accidents, so this information is incomplete, and understates the real total. Detail from the 2007 report (220 non-fatal and 19 fatal hunting accidents) show the major reasons for the accidents to be:

(50) Shooter swinging on game
(32) Failure to identify target
(29) Careless handling of firearm
(29) Victim out of sight of shooter
(15) Victim moved into line of fire
(13) Failure to check beyond target

Hope that helps.

I think fluoro vests might not be the answer...