Recreational hunter struck by ricochet
A 38-year-old recreational hunter in the canton of Uri was struck by a ricochet and had to be airlifted to hospital by Rega.
38-year-old airlifted to hospital by Rega
A recreational hunter from Uri was recreational hunting in the canton of Uri when he was struck and injured by a ricochet.
The hunting accident occurred on 7.9.2023.
As the cantonal police of Uri announced, the individual is a 38-year-old man. He had to be airlifted to hospital by Rega.
Police investigating the exact circumstances
The hunting accident occurred in the Steinboden area in the Uri municipality of Spiringen. The police declined to provide further details about the accident upon request. Police investigations are ongoing.
Recreational hunting endangers public safety
The IG Wild beim Wild systematically documents hunting accidents and criminal activity in connection with recreational hunting.
Further articles
More recent hunting accidents and documented criminal offences involving recreational hunters can be found here: Chronicle of hunting accidents and criminal offences in the context of hunting abolition as well as in the Chronicle of hunting accidents in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at PETA.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
