Interesting, relevent , REVEALING point TDS just made

[CatWoman]

that range where Cheney was hunting is the type where pen-raised birds are set in an area convenient for the "hunter" to "hunt", like fish in a barrel.

[Kagemusha]

1. Yeah, a canned hunt.

I don't hunt myself but if I did, I'd never touch this kind of thing.

[Ladyhawk]

2. Like shooting lawyers in a barrel = new catch phrase! Woohoo! :D n/t

[mrcheerful]

3. Yeah these "hunt clubs" have been springing up for the rich over the last

30 years. Basically they farm raise the animals so they aren't afraid of humans and then rich guys can walk right up to them and shoot. Its not the same as hunting wild animals that will run if they hear a hunter sneaking up to them. They just closed down one a few years ago that were buying zoo animals and letting rich fat cats gun them down.

[lonestarnot]

6. You mean like Iraq?

[mrcheerful]

11. Not quite,at least in Iraq they can and do shoot back.

Added on edit. Most of these animals won't or can't defend themselves. I remember reading someplace that they had declawed lions that they were "hunting" at one of these Texas hunt clubs. Its really disgusting how its done. There was one in michigan where they fenced in the deer, then herd them towards the hunters.

[lonestarnot]

13. Not the video I saw with trophy hunters. Victims didn't know what hit

them. They were just driving along a road.

[immoderate]

4. Perfect for big strong men.

--IMM

[boobooday]

5. What a he-man

These guys are ALL about faking it, aren't they?

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Oh wow!

Very very big!

[hyphenate]

8. Canned hunts are positively disgusting

And anyone who delights in killing an animal under such circumstances isn't a hunter, he's a murderer of animals.

[bonito]

9. Right

Killing for sport, sorry to say I used to do that also.
The last time hunting, I sat for a while in the woods, every thing was so peacefully and beautiful, and just so right, it was then my ignorance stood out among the beauty of it all, I learned that day. Peace

[Atman]

10. Like a fish in a barrel? Kinda like hunting Saddams in Iraq.

Easy to catch. But a fucking bitch to clean and put on the grill.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Corddry called them "penned wingless quail-tards"

:rofl:

[proud patriot]

14. It's not hunting it's killing

hunting requires a bit more effort

[0007]

15. Glad Cheney wasn't shooting love birds.......

:hi:

[CatWoman]

17. heh

that crazy bastard!!!

Mike Malloy is calling it "Fuddgate"

:rofl:

:hi:

[liveoaktx]

16. Big thing in Texas for corporate retreats- take all the businessmen

(and women) down to a ranch to spend the week, with setups. My dad worked for a big oil and gas company and came back one time with a large bird which he had stuffed and mounted.

[f-bush]

18. Where are all the animal rights activists...

they need to be all over this!

[CatWoman]

19. kick

:kick:

[SPKrazy]

20. That's Cheney's Style

psychopathic killer

he's done this before (hunting pen raised birds) he slaughters them, but he doesn't hunt to eat.