Otago Fish & Game has come out firing after the sentencing of a duck-shooter who accidentally shot and injured two women.
The organisation says he is not the kind of person wanted in game-bird shooting.
William John Gunn, 27, shearer, of Shingle Creek, was sentenced to 300 hours community work with one year of supervision and ordered to pay $1000 to each of the women for emotional harm when he appeared before Judge Dominic Flatley in the Alexandra District Court on Thursday.
Gunn appeared for sentence on a charge of careless use of a firearm, namely a shotgun, causing bodily injury to the women on May 2 — the opening day of the duck-shooting season.