Most quail hunters around here shrug their shoulders and wonder what all the fuss about? Happens all the time, they'll tell you.
Bet the guys and gals on the receiving end of bird shot sure wished it didn't, though.
The sheer silliness of this whole thing is blowing me away (probably a poor choice of words!) I know quite well how to handle a shotgun, how accidents happen, and how terribly excited non-shooting liberals are about this accident. In a "lighter" note (and if there was EVER a 'light in the loafers" it's Ron Reagan...Mr. TuTu himself), THE Ronald Reagan, gentleman, horse lover, and shooter, must be rolling in his grave.
I am adding another FR comment to my BEST OF:
1. Best comment I've read...from another FR thread:
"Miss Kopechne could not be reached for comment"
12 posted on 02/13/2006 6:02:31 AM CST by saveliberty ( :-) I am a Snowflake and Bushbot.)
2. LOL. How bout these lines for Cheney's next press corps dinner speech;
"Ted Kennedy and I are going hunting this weekend. He's driving and I'm riding shotgun."
"I took my wife hunting with me. She was scared out of her wits but decided to stay after Teddy offered to drive her home."
32 posted on 02/13/2006 6:33:09 AM CST by Callahan
And...lest we forget...John Kerry, #1 hero from Viet Nam, pictured with a dead Canada goose in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Why, oh why, do these violent men have to KILL things?
It's my guess the Vietnamese guy Kerry shot IN THE BACK and was on the receiving end of a heavy-duty rifle sure wished it hadn't happened, either.
No offense...just the irrationality of the current MSM and the glee they seem to be finding in this whole thing. I'm amazed that most of them can even read their scripts...much less find toilet paper to wipe...AH! never mind!
Happens all the time?
I don't know about that---I've been bird hunting now for over a decade and it hasn't happened to me or to anyone with whom I hunt. But that's because we're careful enough not to draw a bead on anything below eye level, lest you run the risk of hitting the dog mid-point or mid-flush.
There is no excuse for what Dick Cheney did. None.