A Digby County rabbit hunter has been charged after another man was accidentally shot Saturday.
RCMP responded to the Digby General Hospital at 2:40 p.m. after receiving a report of a patient with a gunshot wound.
Three men, who knew each other, were hunting rabbits near Four Point Road in Weymouth when a 20-year-old man got separated from the others. Another member of the group shot at what he thought was a rabbit and inflicted non-life-threatening injuries on the man.
The 35-year-old man who fired the shot was arrested and faces charges of careless use of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm. He was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in Digby provincial court on March 16.
Although commonly known as rabbits, only snowshoe hares are indigenous to Nova Scotia. Hunting season starts Nov. 1 and goes until the end of February with no hunting on Sundays.
