EDWARDS TWP, MI -- Note to hunters: If you are at risk of falling asleep, be sure your finger isn't resting on your firearm's trigger.

A 32-year-old Bay City man learned this tip the hard way.

Between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, the man was in a deer blind near Rau and Dunham Lake roads in Ogemaw County's Edwards Township. He ended up dozing off with his .45 caliber handgun resting in his lap, said Sheriff Howie Hanft.

A short while later, the man's cellphone alarm went off, shocking him awake and leading him to compress the gun's trigger. The fired bullet entered one of the man's thighs and struck his femur, Hanft said.

The man called a friend of his, who came to his rescue and escorted him to a road, where an ambulance subsequently picked him up, the sheriff said.

The man was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound. Hanft said the man won't face criminal charges related to the reckless discharge.