CLERMONT, N.Y. – Two out-of-state men and another man hunting deer in New York were hospitalized after being wounded in separate incidents, state police said.

Rodney Lane, 48, of Cornish, Maine, was shot in the wrist and shoulder Wednesday by a fellow hunter who mistook him for a deer, police said. Lane was reported in guarded condition at Albany Medical Center.

Investigators said Lane and James Hill Jr., 69, of Limerick, Maine, were hunting in this town 40 miles south of Albany when Hill mistook Lane for a deer and fired one shot from his .356-caliber rifle. Troopers said the men weren’t wearing orange or red hunting clothes.

There is no state law requiring hunters to wear hunter orange, but the state Department of Environment Conservation urges them to wear fluorescent orange safety clothing. None of 18 big game hunters mistaken for game and killed in the past 10 years wore orange, according to the agency’s Web site.

In western New York, Santo Intravartolo, 74, of Jamesberg, N.J., was shot in the left hip Wednesday.

Police charged 24-year-old Christopher Cook of South River, N.J., with assault Thursday for allegedly firing the shot that wounded Intravartolo. Cook also was charged with attempting to take a deer without the proper permit.

Troopers said several hunters fired as a deer ran between Intravartolo and the group that was driving the deer. Intravartolo was in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

Driving deer is legal in New York, but the Department of Environmental Conservation does not promote it as an effective hunting method.