Hunter shot after being mistaken for bear
from
The Whig
bq. But the 38-year-old nearly became prize game himself when another hunter mistook Mossman for a bear and shot him in the leg. The Kingston man is recovering at home, another victim of the dozens of hunting accidents that happen each year in Canada.
bq. It happened on Nov. 3, the first day of the deer season. Mossman,
dressed in a bright orange hunting jacket, was at the 600-hectare hunt camp in Griffith, north of Kingston, that he shares with his father and a dozen cousins and friends.
(emphasis mine)
Posted by DaveH at November 17, 2003 1:04 PM