PLATTE COUNTY, Mo. -- Two brothers said they were shot in the legs while walking down a gravel road in rural Platte County during a deer hunt.

The road the brothers, 14-year-old Austin Devlin and 20-year-old Perry Kohrs, were on is public, with farmland on either side, and investigators said they are trying to figure out how the shooting happened.

Platte County investigators said they checked the area for tire tracks, scoured the nearby woods for witnesses and examined the blood left behind, looking for signs of where the shots came from and who did the shooting.

Both brothers are expected to recover from their injuries.

There were two shots, according to those who heard the blast, with only a few seconds in between them. Platte County Sheriff's Capt. Frank Hunter said those sounds were consistent with a bolt-action rifle.

Hunter said only one of the brothers had deer tags and a rifle, so there's no way they accidentally shot each other.

The sheriff's captain said he doesn't know if whoever shot them had any idea they'd hit something, let alone a boy and his brother who have family just down the street.

"If someone thought it was deer, they would probably fire several times right at the same object, so it could," Hunter said. "That's what we're trying to figure out."