Experienced Hunters Fault Cheney - Washington Times

[centristo]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060214-111127-7044r.htm

Experienced hunters put Cheney at fault in shooting

By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 15, 2006

Experienced hunters yesterday said Vice President Dick Cheney alone bears the blame for a weekend mishap in which he accidentally shot a hunting companion in the face and chest with a shotgun.

Every local hunter interviewed by The Washington Times yesterday said the vice president violated hunting's cardinal rule: Never pull the trigger unless you are 100 percent sure of your target. And, they said, he violated Rule No. 2, as well: Never swing on game outside the safe zone of fire.

"I just want the guy to say, 'Hey, I screwed up, I made a mistake,'?" said James Harris, 51, a hunter and taxidermist from Mechanicsville, Md., who said he fears that the accident will make people think hunting is unsafe.

"He apparently was overzealous or too excited about the shot, and he didn't practice safe measures to make sure he didn't shoot his friend. He should have, and he was wrong," Mr. Harris said.

Said hunter Bob Rice, 73, of Golden Beach, Md.: "Ninety-nine percent of the blame falls on the person who discharged that round with his trigger finger, and that's Cheney."

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Ha, ain't that the truth.

[DS1]

1. One thing that's really bullshit is considering this "hunting" in the

first place.

It's waiting for a bird to fly out of a box you're already aiming at and trying to shoot it. That's not hunting, that's shooting. Hunting requires some sort of skill and patience.

[sharp_stick]

3. Almost but not quite

Unless this is a different type of release hunt. What they should be doing, and usually do, is send someone out an hour or two before the "hunt" to release birds in a field. The theory is that the birds can spread out over the field and provide a bit of a "hunting experience" for the lazy fat republican who decides to drive around the field looking for birds.

These birds are cage raised and so don't have a lot of energy to run around, plus they don't have the instinct to take off when they see they have the chance to take off.

[centristo]

4. i read that the incident happened around 6:30pm

don't must hunters go out at 6:30AM?

[ixion]

6. yeah, you're not supposed to hunt in the evening

but what does Dick 'Go F**k Yerself' Cheney care about that? ;-)

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This is easy to explain why Cheney didn't follow the cardinal

rules of hunting and shooting: He doesn't feel that he has to follow ANY rules, ANY time. He's Dick Cheney. He's privileged. As per Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby: "They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. "It takes two to make an accident."

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Dickhead Cheney = SLOB HUNTER

n/t

[katty]

7. Elmer Fudd is a better shot than cheneykins - 30 yds?!

and 14 hours....hmmmmm...that's quite a story.