Dick Cheney Asks Harry Reid To Quail Hunt

First, on a serious note, Cheney may usually follow good habits, but on this day he violated one of the four fundamental rules of gun safety..."Be sure of your target and what's behind it." It was Cheney's responsibility to watch out not only for members of his own party (no pun intended), but for anyone who may have wandered into penetrating shotgun range. Accidents happen, but it is necessary to assign responsibility or they will be repeated.

On the "hunt defensively" side of the issue, I never hunt quail in a party without wearing a blaze orange hat and wraparound safety glasses. (For dove lose the hat but keep the glasses.) People tend to get excited and forget their good habits. Getting pelted in the ass with pellets is funny. Losing an eye or two is not. About a year ago in the mountains above Los Alamos, a turkey hunter in the vicinity of a campground blinded a camper who had gone out for a walk before dinner. The turkey hunter had fired a magnum shell in the campers direction because he "heard something in the bushes". Forgot to "be sure of his target".

Then there was the deer hunter in Texas who had climbed a tree to watch a game trail. He was shot dead with a rifle by a turkey hunter who "thought he was a turkey." (Same rule.) Chuckles are permitted here though. Maybe the guy was a turkey. In which case he should have known to stay out of the woods.:D

What I can't figure is why Cheney was so careful hunting with Scalia.
 
Dick Cheney is asking himself today what went wrong and I don't think I can tell him from these pages.

My father quit hunting with many people because of goose hunting one day with some friends. One of the friends swung through and passed the muzzle across my Old Man. He wordlessly left the field and never returned.

He had a great presentation of where the bullet would go. He practised with me when I was 8 or so. We'd keep looking at different scenes and he explain where the bullet would go. Houses, barns, walls... There were some surprises. We didn't even have guns in our hands. I never forgot that talk.


munk
 
Like your father munk, I've had some close calls myself and sometimes I wonder why I'm still interested in guns and hunting. Once as a kid I entered my Aunt's house in the piney woods of East Texas. There were two deer rifles standing in the corner. One of my younger cousins picked up one of the rifles, pointed it at my chest and pulled the trigger. "Click." The adults in the room quickly took the gun away from my cousin and checked the other rifle. When they worked the action a live shell popped out on the carpet. Another close encounter with Mr. Murphy.
 
I don't think Dick Cheney was at the hospital by the guy's bed trying to save political face. He grew up in Casper, Wyoming. I'm sure he feels very bad about this.

Many of us are blessed by luck, or a guardian angel.


munk
 
You know it was an accident cause he would never shoot a millionaire on purpose. Well, maybe Soros.

Watching the war in Iraq just didn't satisfy his bloodlust, even with his recent trip there, so he had to shoot somebody ;-)

Seriously though you KNOW that THAT had to be embarrasing to him. Yet more fodder for the anti gun crowd. Glad the guy wasn't hurt. I can see now why he got out of going to Vietnam
 
Just found these. Top 10 reasons Cheney shot that guy:

10) Sure, like you've never seen seen giant game birds wearing day glo orange vests

9) Warrantless domestic spying revealed he was getting phone calls from al Queda

8) If the Vice President does it, its not against the law

7) Hoping to put him in a persistent vegetative state so the GOP could pass a law to keep him alive

6) Thought he was hunting Dan Quayle

5) The love between them could not survive back in Washington

4) Birds, Cows, People-- with my eyesight I'm lucky I hit anything

3)Positive the guy's family will welcome him as a liberator

2) Pheasants? I thought we were hunting peasants

and the number one Cheney excuse for shooting that guy:
1. Open season on liberals started early this year
 
This guy was a friend, you would think he would want to keep the few he has left safe!
 
Just out this morning that the victim was only thirty yards away and wearing blaze orange. Next time, if there is a next time, he's going to be wearing body armor (the good kind).
 
bwray said:
Just out this morning that the victim was only thirty yards away and wearing blaze orange. Next time, if there is a next time, he's going to be wearing body armor (the good kind).
Click to expand...

You wear blaze orange to bird hunt?? (Hollowdweller- who has never bird hunted) They use camo for turkey around here.
 
Full camo for turkey and dove, blaze orange for quail because stealth is not an issue. The quail are so confident of their own camo they usually don't flush until you're right on top of them; but they know where you are blaze orange or no.
 
Yes, Orange. Cheney mistake number one- shot his friend. Ultimate responsibility- you and the bullet and where that barrel is pointed.

Two: the guy did not verbally check in with his group as he was required to do in the field.

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I hate the blow to Hunting's reputation. I am so glad the guy is going to recover.

Bwray is so right about Quail. I swear they know which rock you're hiding behind.


munk
 
You've got to wonder how you mistake a man an 8" bird. It not like they were hunting the orange vested bipedal texan deer. I was somewhat surprised to learn he was hunting with a shot gun as well, seems kind of unsporting. Since I was 12 I've been hunting quail with my father with a bolt action 22, you need to be a bit closer but it gives the little guys a chance, the fun is in the stalk anyways not the shoot.
 
When I first heard about this I thought it was a shoot out between the VP and Bush seniors VP. I imagined gunfight at the OK corral style Chenney Quayle shoot out with a stray bullet catching an innocent (as innocent as you can be and still be affiliated with Dick Chenney) bystander.
 
Accidents happen, but it is necessary to assign responsibility or they will be repeated.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bwray


Bwray said this, and it bear repeating. Some of you wrote to me privately about the shooting. "Munk, Cheney has to know where his barrel is pointed."

I figured this 'accident' might be complicated, and I don't like shortening Life to BS simplicity, but Bwray is right.

This has become a thoughtful thread, which started as humor. I love this place for that.

I note that Bwray did not say 'blame' but 'responsibility'.

munk
 
for one horrible second he thought it was john (you ain't JFK) kerry asneakin' up on him with his assault rifle & he had to take the shot.....
 
That's it. It turns out after all the Swift boat controversy, Kerry really did cross a Border into a firezone.




munk
 
I read something about them seeing the quail and all jumping out of a car or something to go shoot them?

There used to be some quail around in this area but I don't know if it's cause it's more grown up now or what but never see them anymore. Cool birds.
 
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