History Main / HuntingAccident

->''"You will forsake all claim to your brother's inheritance and start north before evenfall. If you do not, then on the morrow we shall have a hunt, and somewhere in these woods your horse will stumble, and you will be thrown from the saddle to die... or so I will tell your mother. Nothing would please me more."''
-->-- '''Lord Randyll Tarly''' (to his son Samwell Tarly), ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': During a Christmas family reunion (and if Fatal Family Reunion isn't a trope yet, it should be), there's a pheasant shoot scheduled. The unsuspecting victim picks up the gun, says it feels heavier than usual, pulls the trigger, and Kablooie. The cartridges slipped into her pocket were too small, meaning they slid down the barrel and didn't fire (or eject) until the victim loaded another set in thinking the last shot was a dud. What's worse is that, according to TheCoroner, this is actually a very common accident when hunting is involved. Had the threat for there to be two victims not been made, it would've been ruled a genuine accident.

* In Creator/DavidMacaulay's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pyramid}}'', this is the fate of Crown Prince Baufre, next in line to be Pharaoh after his father Khufu. One day the prince goes leopard hunting with his conniving brother Djedefre, the latter of which is "kind" enough to point out to Baufre where a particularly large leopard has been spotted. Unfortunately for Baufre, all he finds when he goes looking for the leopard are two assassins paid by Djedefre and armed with fake claws, who slash Baufre's throat and make it look like the "leopard" was responsible. This is what clears the way for Djedefre to ultimately become Pharaoh, though [[AllForNothing his reign is apparently short and somewhat disgraceful]].

* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'': In "Opening Day", Joe Farrell reluctantly goes along with his lover Sally Wilkerson's plan to kill her husband Carl by making it look as he was killed while duck hunting. After Carl is killed, the police believe that it was simply an accident. Joe returns to what used to be the Wilkerson house to find that it is the previous day and that he is now Sally's husband. When Carl takes him on the same hunting trip, Joe becomes concerned that he is going to be killed and falls into the water. He refuses Carl's attempts to help him and dies.

Might overlap with ThisBearWasFramed, when a murder scene is tampered with so it looks like a wild animal did it. MurphysBullet can be used as an excuse, too. SisterTrope of UnfriendlyFire, which is passing off a murder of a fellow soldier as just a casualty of war.

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'''[[ServileSnarker Blaze]]:''' Not to mention that, this way, we'd avoid a Spanish succession war...

* King Elhokar in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'' suffers a fall during a fight with a very large crab that he insists was the result of an assassination attempt. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that he cut the saddle strap himself so that he could make [[TheWisePrince Dalinar]] take his paranoia seriously. However, this was apparently simultaneous with a ''real'' assassination attempt; his magical armor malfunctioned and the creature attacked the party unexpectedly.]]