They don’t look like wild boars, they definitely taste different _ and yet, if hunters are too eager to hunt, the horses have to worry. A few years ago a foal was also ‘killed’ in Upper Austria because a Mühlviertler Waidmann mistook it for a wild sow.
“Pony accidentally shot – a hunter mistook the horse for a wild boar in the dark” – was the headline in “Krone” yesterday. A report from Lower Austria reminiscent of a similar case in 2012 in Atzesberg in the Rohrbach district. Also at that time, a hunter (25) ‘killed’ a six-month-old Western Horse foal worth 15,000 euros in a meadow because he mistook it for a wild boar in the dark.
Foal “Nika” was hit so badly in the back by the hollow jacket bullet that despite emergency surgery she had to be euthanized the next day. It was a graduation present from a then 20-year-old from Hartkirchen.
“Be careful, hunter.”
Horses generally lead a dangerous life when hunters start stalking near wild boars – this is evident from a look at relevant hunting sites on the Internet: In Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia (D), a hunter also saw a horse stalking a horse in February for a wild horse. boar and shot it. In 2021 the same thing happened with fatal consequences in Usingen in the German state of Hesse.
Such misses are rare
“Something like this happens very rarely,” says Christopher Böck, director of Upper Austria. State hunting association, very clear: “After all, a hunter must know what he is actually shooting at before he pulls the trigger. Fortunately, since night vision goggles and thermal imaging cameras have become available on the market, such missed shots have become the absolute exception.”
Source: Krone
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