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Authorities say 36-year-old Shawn Hunt, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, was on a guided hunt Tuesday morning in Pleasant Ridge Plantation when he was injured.
Lt. Kevin Adam with the Maine Warden Service says Hunt had instructed a teen to shoot a hare. He was hit with several pellets from the teen’s gun.
Hunt was taken to a hospital in Skowhegan for treatment. Adam says the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Game wardens are still investigating.
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