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Dog Steps On Gun, Shoots Man - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des Moines:


POSTED: 8:29 am CDT October 28, 2007
UPDATED: 8:32 am CDT October 28, 2007
TAMA, Iowa -- A Tama man was injured when hunting dogs stepped on his gun.
Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
said James Harris, 37, was pheasant hunting with a group about three miles north of Grinnell when the accident happened.

Officials said the group had shot a bird and when Harris went to retrieve it, he put his gun on the ground and crossed a fence. As he crossed the fence, hunting dogs stepped on his gun causing it to fire.

Harris was shot in the lower left leg.

He was treated at Grinnell Medical Center and later transferred by helicopter to University Hospitals in Iowa City. His condition has not been released.

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