Syracuse.com - Upstate NY hunter dies on opening day of deer season

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Police were investigating the 80-year-old Ray Schuh's cause of death.

An elderly hunter died on the first day of firearms deer hunting season in Upstate New York.

The man was identified by friends as Ray Schuh, a minister at the Hornell Church of Christ in Dansville, WHAM-TV reported. Schuh is in his 80s.

A Livingston County 911 caller reported a "hunter fallen out of a treestand" on Saturday, the opening day of deer season for much of Upstate NY, according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Schuh was hunting in the woods in West Sparta near Mountainview Christian Camp, which he helped open in 1960s.

Deputies were on the scene investigating Schuh's cause of death on Saturday, and declined to release more information

Watch the WHAM-TV video report below.

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