Three men from Minnesota have been fined a total of 10-thousand dollars for shooting aat a moose decoy from a motorboat on Cooper Lake, about 160-kilometres north of Red Lake.Geary Padden, Timothy Peterson and Christopher Freeman pleaded guilty to unlawfully hunting moose and have been banned from hunting for 2-years.
The men were caught taking shots at the fake moose last October.
Court heard that once the trio realized they were shooting at a decoy, they attempted to flea.