If Cheney was hunting birds, wouldn't he be shooting up into the air?

[Poiuyt]

How in hell did he hit a person who was 30 yards away? What kind of birds fly along at 6 feet off the ground? I would have thought that he would have been aiming higher.

[LARED]

1. What kind of birds fly along at 6 feet off the ground?

Actually lots do. Particularly when the are coming out of the brush.

[Cocoa]

2. birds sometimes are in bushes

so to speak.

[MADem]

15. They always are, when he hunts--they flush 'em, and he blasts away

He clearly is a LOUSY hunter, though. He favors closed preserves, with fat, tamed birds, and the dumb fool didn't look where he was shooting. He just started following his target and blasted away.

Extremely unprofessional conduct. He's an amateur, and a bad one at that.

[jus_the_facts]

3. Quail roost on the ground....

:hi:

They tend to prefer areas that are open at ground level where they can use their running abilities. When flushed, they often fly a short distance, glide to the ground, and continue to run for some distance before they hide in whatever cover is available. Their running makes them difficult to hunt, for once a covey is located, they often disappear into the landscape, leaving a frustrated hunter.

Scaled quail are like other quail, monogamous ground-nesting birds with the sexes similar in color.


http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_l/l-304.html

[catmother]

12. we have many families of quail that come through our property.

they walk. we always wonder why they don't fly. i guess they do when they have to.

[jus_the_facts]

20. I hatched and tended to some quail babies last year......

....they are soooo tiny...sweet birds...hate to think of them as being hunted. x(

[catmother]

21. i know. what kind of person tries to kill them? it sure tells us

something about the person.

[rzemanfl]

4. Birds being hunted fly away, not up. n/t

[Olney Blue]

5. And even more important- what kind of numbnuts would shoot

at a LAWYER?

[greenisin]

6. With his health problems...

he might not be able to aim the heavy barrel of the gun that high so he just takes shots in random directions in an attempt to hit something.

[Sparkly]

9. Pretty much the same as their foreign policy, then. nt

[fiveleafclover]

18. He's the rootinest tootinest VP we've had

in quite some time.

[melnjones]

24. lol. nt.

[pitohui]

7. they were quail i presume bobwhites

nonetheless i will concede that if cheney can't distinguish between the face of a 78 year old friend and a bobwhite he needs to get his eyes checked

[Dees]

8. Repuglicans....shoot first ..think later

[Dr.Phool]

10. This is about as good as the guy who took a hatchet

To his mother-in-law, and claimed he thought she was a raccoon!

Must have been one ugly mother-in-law.

[fiveleafclover]

19. Ugly, or wearing too much eye makeup

[DefenseLawyer]

11. Maybe he was taking Fredo "fishing" n/t

[MnFats]

13. good one. "I KNEW IT WAS YOU, HARRY!"

"I don't want anything to happen to him while our mother is alive...."

[Catshrink]

14. It's a good thing he wasn't hunting with *.

Can you imagine?

:hi: agent Mike. I'm just kidding.... certainly not suggesting it would be a good thing for Elmer Fudd Cheney and Commander Bunnypants to go hunting together.

[javadu]

16. This is Somewhat Easy to Do

I don't mean to defend deadeye dick on this, but I have quail hunted and it is very important to keep track of others in your hunting party. I have hunted with people before and decided not to hunt any longer with them because they were not safe. They didn't get the importance of keeping track of others and were often so overly excited after the flush that they did not think before shooting. Often, dogs get shot instead of people. Just an FYI.

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. That's just what a terrorist quail would WANT you to think!

After all, I'm sure the SS was out there very early, painting "COW" on every cow, "TREE" on every tree, and "DEMOCRAT" on every bird. DICK was just protecting us all. God Bless Murka! :patriot:

[DefenseLawyer]

22. Well the "quail" were actually domesticated turkeys

drugged of course. Cheney got so bored after shooting 47 of them, that he made the toadies in his hunting party play "The Most Dangerous Game" to liven things up.

[ryan_cats]

23. Was it Brownie?

Hey Brownie, no hard feelings; want to go hunting with the Vice President?

[Avalux]

25. My father the hunter safety instructor sez:

Birds don't fly behind you - they fly away from you (why did he do a 180?).

They would have had dogs to retrieve the downed birds; weird that Cheney's 'target' had gone off to retrieve a bird.

They used shotguns, probably with #8 shot - at close range, would do damage.

ALWAYS know where other members of your hunting party are before shooting.

Cheney is an idiot.

[Kansas Wyatt]

26. It's BushCo's stunt to retire Cheney.

So Cheney can be the scapegoat for all the scandals coming up and Cheney can be a 'private citizen' to upcoming investigations, so they can impede, stonewall, and hinder every step of the way.