GERALDTON – One man has pleaded guilty last month to using a firearm carelessly to hunt and unlawfully hunting a moose without a licence.
According to Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry release, Shane Druer of Oro-Medonte pleaded guilty to and was fined $3,000 for using a firearm carelessly to hunt, $1,000 for unlawfully hunting a moose with a licence, and he was also suspended from hunting in Ontario for five years.
Druer was hunting moose on Goldfield Road south of Geraldton on Oct. 13, 2019 when he harvested a bull moose. He had mistaken it for a cow moose, which his hunting party was licensed to hunt.
Upon realizing the mistake, a member of Druer’s hunt party contacted the MNR to report the wrongly shot moose.
Conservation officers investigated and discovered that Druer spotted the moose from an elevated view of Goldfield Road and fired two shots at the moose at long range, across a forest access road actively being used by other hunters and the forest industry.
Justice of the Peace Denette Ellard heard the case from the Geraldton Ontario Court of Justice on Oct. 6, 2021.
