Recreational hunter found dead on raised hide with gunshot wound to the head
A 78-year-old recreational hunter was allegedly fatally struck in the head by a ricochet during a driven hunt near Volkach.
A recreational hunter was allegedly struck by a ricochet and found dead on a shooting platform.
According to initial findings, the projectile hit the 78-year-old during a driven hunt and, according to police, caused fatal injuries.
Fatal ricochet near Volkach
On the feast of Epiphany at around 10:00 a.m., the man had met with other recreational hunters near Volkach in the Strehlhof hunting ground. Police believe that the recreational hunter was later on his own and had taken up his position as a shooter on the raised hide.
When the man from Würzburg did not return after the end of the hobby hunt, the other recreational hunters went looking for him. On a raised hide, they found the lifeless 78-year-old. The emergency services and the on-call doctor could only confirm the man's death.
Investigators assume ricochet
The criminal investigation department and the state criminal office have launched an investigation and are assuming an unfortunate ricochet. The fire brigade had to attend with a turntable ladder to recover the deceased from the raised hide. This incident is yet another entry in the long list of hunting accidents that claim lives and injuries every year.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
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.
