A reminder to hunters about the dangers of shooting from or down a roadway and the penalties that come with it.
A Sioux Narrows man has been fined $7,800 for careless hunting and failing to wear hunter orange following a deer decoy operation on a forest access road from Highway 71 north of Sioux Narrows.
Jess Swenson has also been banned from hunting for six months and will need to retake the Ontario Hunter Education Program before being eligible to buy another licence.
Court heard that on December 1st, 2018, Jess Swenson stopped his truck on Maybrun Road, got out and discharged his high-calibre rifle down the road at the decoy.
The road is heavily used for both commercial and public travel and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has received numerous complaints about unsafe hunting in that area.