More details about a young Otago man's hunting death on Stewart Island in July

21-year-old Jock Davies was in a hunting party of nine, on the South Lords River hunting block, when he was shot dead.

Ashburton man Paul Stevens has admitted carelessly using a firearm causing death.

The police summary of facts states Stevens fired at a dark shadowy image moving through thick bush, without identifying the target.

He told police the brown figure appeared larger than a sheep, but smaller than a red deer, and he fired believing it to be a white-tailed deer.

He only realised he'd shot Davies when he walked to his body.