A 22-year-old man was shot in the chest by another member of his hunting party today in a remote area of bush near Motu in Bay of Plenty.
A spokesman for the Greenlea Rescue Helicopter said it took the hunting party four hours to send the message for help.
"They got to a place where they bumped in to another person who had an emergency beacon, then one guy carried on to get to a phone,'' he said.
Police said the shot man was one of a party of three men from the Hamilton area.
The Personal Locator Beacon signal was picked up at 1.30pm by the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ, and the Greenlea Rescue Helicopter was deployed from Taupo.
