The man, 69, was brought to Maine Medical Center in Portland on Saturday morning and was in fair condition Monday afternoon.

BY KATHLEEN O’BRIENTIMES RECORDShareA Phippsburg man was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland after he accidentally shot himself in the foot at his home Saturday morning.

The 69-year-old was preparing to go bird hunting and “was going to clean the weapon and he thought both barrels were empty, but one wasn’t,” Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said. There was no one else in the room when the single shot was fired.

Merry didn’t know the extent of the man’s injuries when he was brought to Maine Medical Center in Portland on Saturday. He was in “fair condition” on Monday afternoon, MaineHealth Spokesperson Caroline Cornish wrote in an email to The Times Record.

In recent previous incidents of unintentional…