Hunting dog accidentally shoots US hunter in the leg

It is news when a man bites a dog, not when a dog bites a man, but what about when a dog shoots a man?

In a nasty twist to the old adage of journalism, an Iowa man is nursing a leg wound after a hunting dog stepped on his gun.

James Harris, 37, was shot last Friday while out with a party shooting for pheasants in Poweshiek county in the midwest state.

The Iowa natural resources department said the victim rested his gun on the ground while retrieving a shot pheasant. As he crossed a fence a dog trod on the trigger and shot him in the calf from just a metre away.