A hunting expedition last fall ended badly when a man out for the first time shot a cow that he thought was a large deer. He’s now been fined NOK 10,000 (USD 1,000) and it would have been worse if he’d had more experience.
“There would have been a stronger reaction,” local prosecutor Arnt Erik Oust in the county of Møre og Romsdal told newspaper Sunnmørsposten.
The novice hunter had completed all the required exams and shooting practice, and was out with a friend at Vanylven in October. They both used optical sighting and saw several deer in the forest. Ten minutes later, the unlucky hunter spotted a new animal in his view-finder and fired, only to discover that he’d killed a cow out grazing.
The unlucky hunter is also a police officer in another area of the Norway, but Oust said that had nothing to do with the evaluation of the hunter’s fine.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
