Recreational hunter gets hit by lead shot on hare hunt
A recreational hunter from Graubünden was hit by a pellet from his companion's gun near San Bernardino. The hare escaped unharmed.
A hunter from Graubünden was hit by a shotgun pellet while hare hunting near San Bernardino on Friday. The pellet came from his companion's weapon. The man sustained minor injuries. The hare escaped unharmed.
The two hunting companions were hunting hares in the Funtanalba area. According to the Graubünden cantonal police, they were 35 metres apart on a forest road when a hare hopped out of the woods below them.
As the animal crossed the road, one of the hunters fired at the hare. A single pellet ricocheted off the concrete road and struck the second hunter at the temple, where it lodged.
The mildly injured man was driven by his companion to the emergency doctor in Roveredo, where he received outpatient treatment. The shooter then reported the incident to the cantonal police. The hare had not been hit. It fled and ran up the hillside. The shooter must answer to the public prosecutor's office.
The woodcock, the European hare, and the black grouse are listed on the Red List of threatened species. Nevertheless, they are hunted by recreational hunters in Switzerland.
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.
