SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.

Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Brigham City man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed out of the boat to move decoys.

Potter says the man left his 12-gauge shotgun in the boat and the dog stepped on it, causing it to fire. It wasn't clear whether the safety on the gun was on at the time.

Potter says the man was hit from about 10 feet away with 27 pellets of birdshot. He says the man wasn't seriously injured, in part because he was wearing waders. The man was treated at a nearby hospital.

If the dog turned off the safety, pointed it at the hunter, and then stepped on the trigger...no, not very friendly.

I suspect, however, that the hunter failed to have the safety engaged on his gun, and left it laying on the bow of the boat...and is lucky he didn't end up killing himself or someone else.

Maybe the dog was doing all hunters a favor by trying to remove him from the gene pool

Fish on...

Todd

At that distance the pellets would have been more like being hit with a slug.


A buddy of mine took over a hundred size 8 pellets to the face and upper torso at about 25 yards when his buddy fell off of a stump shooting clays off of a receiver hitch. They all missed his eyes, wind pipe, jugular and carotid but the pellets traveled all the way through his neck and stopped under the skin in back. Those in his abdomen failed to hit any organs because they were stopped by his ab muscles. Three pellets punctured his sinus and the doctor said over the years he would eventually sneeze them out and none of the pellets were removed and were explained as non-threatening.


At ten feet, with appropriate hunting loads, it could have been catastrophic.


Maybe the dog had a motive?

obviousley this was a abused dog. years of mistreatment led to the dogs breaking point. when the hunter stepped out of the boat, well the dog knew this would be his only chance to shoot his owner in the butt or better. figuring that a life sentence in the pound was better than with the sumsibitch owner!

No and it wasn't me either... the guy was very experienced and careful and just made a mistake. They were launching clays over his head and the shooter was turning around to get a line on them as they passed, then he slipped.


Hindsight is 20-20

Seems Fido had a hind in sight.
Maybe he was looking for a bone to pick pellets out of.

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One fool down here on TV remarked "Those guns have safeties !"
Well, some have safeties in the trigger guard and it's no surprise that the dog's paw could have taken it off safe and pulled the trigger as he stepped on the loaded weapon.

That's a hard way to learn about "muzzle awareness"
I'll bet the fool won't have a round in the chamber next time, either.


Edit:
In a duck boat or duck blind with dogs in and out, this was a contingency that me and the ol' man actually trained for.