https://www.michiganradio.org/post/appeals-court-wants-more-info-decide-inherent-risk-hunting-case

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The Michigan Court of Appeals has returned a case to a lower court for a closer look at the level of risk during an organized hunting event.

The case from Alpena County pits a father against a son, who lost two fingers as the result of an accident during what’s called a “European-style” pheasant hunt.

According to the appeals court opinion, this type of hunt involves several two-person blinds arranged in a circle around a tower. Pheasants are released into the air from the tower and the hunters try to shoot as many as they can until they’re called off.

Jeff Payne suffered the injury after his father’s gun went off inside their hunting blind. So Jeff, the son, sued the David, the father. The father said the accident was an inherent and…