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Dog shoots man — sort of — in Box Elder County

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A duck hunter was shot and wounded when a dog apparently knocked over a gun, causing it to fire on Friday in West Corinne.

According to the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office — whose officers had not had a chance to interview either the victim or the one human witness as of Saturday — two men were in a duck blind at the Chesapeake Duck Club at about 4 p.m. Friday when when of them stood up to stretch. One of their dogs got excited and tried to exit the blind and “in the process, somehow discharged the weapon.