Bird hunting is hard enough, and Cheney wasn’t fully outside of blame, but the vast majority of statements I’ve read on the subject really show how few people have any clue about bird hunting.

Oh, and Pheasant hunting as described by Guav is a very common “sport” in England. Canned hunts aren’t exactly sporting, but they are legal and fairly common. Don’t like it? Call your representatives. Then go home and have your chicken or steak dinner.

I don’t see Cheney (or any VP, for that matter) having bunches of free time to spend sitting in a duck blind or on a deer stand.

And I also heard that the shootee left the group and failed to announce himself, per protocol designed to avoid just this kind of incident, when he came back.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney’s 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. The party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon.

That’s just sort of pathetic. But I think it may say alot about him.

If the old guy had a heart-attack, the Dem’s would be dancing in the street, no?

On the “non-conspiracy” angle, if they had wanted to keep it quiet, I’m sure the guy would have died of a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound. How many Clinton people did that?
Come to think of it, how many people went hunting with Clinton?

heh

You don’t hunt with high-powered attorneys, I take it.

Cheney’s gonna wind up wishing he’d given the guy the other barrel before all’s said and done.