https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/n-s-appeal-court-upholds-conviction-of-two-mikmaq-hunters-who-fired-at-decoy-moose

It turned out what they were shooting at on the night of Sept. 5, 2006, was a decoy — a mechanical moose set up by Nova Scotia authorities to catch illegal poachers

A moose just after sunrise on Saturday May 5, 2018.Mike Drew/Postmedia
Douglas Quan
Douglas Quan
August 29, 2018

As they scanned the darkness with the headlights from their truck, Mi’kmaq hunters Aaron Paul and Charles Francis, members of the Eskasoni First Nation, thought they saw the eyes of a moose staring back at them.

They fired a shot.

But it turned out what they were shooting at on the night of Sept. 5, 2006, was a decoy — a mechanical moose set up by Nova Scotia authorities to catch illegal poachers.

In a case that has dragged on for more than a decade, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the conviction of the men…