Police says they were called to the Perth-Andover Hospital o investigate what they describe as a ``hunting incident'' near the small community of Beaconsfield.
The Mounties say the unidentified 50-year-old man from Kilburn died in hospital as a result of his injuries.
Corporal Theirry Malenfant says police plan to interview five or six witnesses over the next few days but their initial belief is the shooting was most likely an accident.
Malenfant says two groups of hunters who knew each other had gone into the woods.
They were nearby each other at the time of the incident.
