April 6, 2015
From Patch.com
Brent Bachert had just gotten finished with killing an impala buck near Bend, Texas when he shot himself in the left leg below the knee in November, 2013.
After successfully shooting an impala buck, Bachert chambered a fresh round, and moved the safety selector on the rifle to ‘safe’ position. Bacher then approached the animal and rested the rifle across the torso of the animal, pointed away from himself. As he reached away from the gun to reposition the animal’s head, and without making contact with the rifle in anyway, the rifle fired, striking him in the left lower leg below the knee.