Things can get pretty exciting when you're quail hunting, you can get really focussed following those little rascals, and if somebody's where he's not supposed to be he can catch a pellet or three, and it IS generally considered his fault. Usually somebody's dog gets way up forward or lags back, and since the shooter's watching the dog, he may move out of the line without noticing.
I don't like to hunt in a crowd, because it's too many people to watch. A lot of times I just work my dog.
Yeah, it seems like both of them were at fault. Of course the lefties are too dumb to notice that.
I've hunted for over thirty years. Everything from upland small game -- rabbits, squirrels, birds, to deer. No waterfowl, no bear.
And while, yes, it is "the responsible thing to do" for a "potential target" to do everything in reason to ensure that he is visible as a human (hence, the near-universal "hunter-orange" clothing laws), the fact remains, that if I pull the trigger on you, I am to blame, period.
It's no different from the ("classic") "rear-end accident."
In fact, when my body was ruined in a "rear-ender", the ***** who flew into me while I was stopped behind another car at the intersection got into a pissing match with the cop, demanding that he ticket ME, because, as she put it, "It was HIS fault!"
The cop finally threw up his hands and said OK, fine -- what should I ticket him for? (This little adventure was related to me after the fact by one of the numerous witnesses.)
Suffice it to say she got the ticket and I nearly bought the farm.
Yeah, I should have had "working brake lights", to warn her that I was stopping. (And I did!) But regardless, it was HER responsiblity to "maintain control over her vehicle".
When you point the muzzle of your gun at something, and you pull the trigger, then you own the results of whatever happens when the load meets the meat.
That is, unless you are of sufficient "rank" to not have to worry about such trivialities.