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Shooters hurt in freak accident

30-11-2009 By Kirsten Johnson and Alan Richardson, The Courier, Scotland, UK


A PAIR of hunters were being treated in hospital after a freak accident at the weekend left them with serious gunshot wounds. The men, both 57, had been shooting geese near Perth when a gun was accidentally discharged at their legs on Saturday morning. They were rushed to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee after a trauma team treated their horrific injuries at the scene.

Initial reports suggested the men were blasted when one of their dogs trod on a shotgun left lying on the ground but police later said this was not the case.

The pair had been part of a larger organised party, not thought to be from the local area, who had begun their hunting trip at Dalreoch, just off the A9 by Dunning, early in the morning.
Police confirmed the shooting was an accident.

Two ambulances and the local trauma team raced to the site—beside Marshall’s Machinery on the B9141—to help the wounded men after being alerted shortly after 9.30am.
An ambulance service spokesman confirmed one of the men was treated for a serious lower leg trauma and hand injury.
The second man also suffered a lower leg injury. Both were conscious throughout and neither man’s injuries were life- threatening.

Police removed weapons in cases from the scene but would make no comment.

The remaining members of the party did not elaborate on what had happened.
It is understood they arranged their outing through the landowner, who is happy for such events to go ahead.

One local man said geese shooting is a popular pastime in the rural Strathearn area at this time of year and shooting parties from across Britain converge on estates and farms to bag the birds as they graze during their winter journey south.

He said, “Generally they will use 12 bores but they will have a heavy load because geese are relatively difficult to bring down.
“If you were to use the same sort of shot as for pheasants or rabbits, all you would do would be injure them and they would fly off and die somewhere else.”

“Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to be close by when one of them goes off. If the shot is heavy enough to go through a goose, you can be sure it will do damage whatever it hits, especially at close range.
“I didn’t see the incident happen or get involved at all afterwards, but I saw all the emergency vehicles and it was pretty clear it was serious.”

He said the hunting parties leave with only a few birds as the commercial sale of wild geese is illegal.

Police yesterday confirmed that a 46-year-old-man, who was part of the group, has been charged in connection with the matter.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Perth.

(Bron: http://www.thecourier.co.uk/)