The world turned upside down for an Iowa bird shooter when he accidentally became the shooting target of hunting dogs. James Harris, 37, shot a bird at the start of the pheasant season in Iowa on Saturday, but dogs stepped on the gun he left on the ground while trying to retrieve the dead bird and shot pellets into his leg.

In a freak hunting accident, a man who was supposedly out hunting in Iowa got himself shot in the leg by a dog. According to local reports, the accident freak occurred after James Harris, 37, put his gun on the ground to retrieve a fallen pheasant.

United States Vice President Dick Cheney has reportedly taken up his rifle and has gone back to the shooting range Monday, in upstate New York. This time, the preferred location was the Hudson River Valley, where the vice president spent the entire day in the privacy of the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, located at Dutchess County, just outside of Lagrangeville.

A 67-year-old, ginseng hunter, has found a nearly one-pound wild ginseng root in western Maryland. Local dealers and market reports said it is a rarity and could be worth thousands of dollars. It was the biggest lumpy tan root with multiple twisted arms the hunter has ever found in his 45-years of hunting ginseng. Roger Welch, from Kitzmiller said, "Every time I go out to dig for roots, I hope it's a big one. This one, all the dealers said they'd never seen one this size. Only one had even heard of one that big. "

Frustrated that they hadn't shot any deer during the archery deer hunt, two teenagers in Orem, Utah, have admitted to hunting nine cows last month. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer Paul Davis said in a statement the boys, whose names have not been released, confessed to shooting the cows repeatedly with arrows over a two-week period.