[roses of sharon]

Interesting, thanks!

[TexasCajun]

I have hunted and fished in Tx many years now and thought that once I purchased my SuperCombo License with my Saltwater Stamp and Migratory Bird Stamp I was good to go.

I need another stamp to hunt quail?

[Beth528]

Thank you for the real story..Of course the media do not want to hear what really happened they wanted to make a bigger deal of it all...I will keep Mr Whittington, in my thoughts and prayers..

[Palladin]

Thanks for the report.

Unfortunately, the Caller requires registration to read at their site, and does not activate for 48 hours. They're missing a lot of hits that way.

[Palladin]

If you are registered there, perhaps you caould share more of their stories on this thread.

[digger48]

Gotta LOVE the headline to this one....

Belfast Telegraph Home > News

'Dick Cheney shoots elderly man in the face with shotgun'

13 February 2006 Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, accidentally shot a man in the face with a shotgun while hunting for quail on a Texas ranch.

Mr Cheney, 65, sprayed birdshot into Harry Whittington, a fellow hunter, while trying to hit a flock of quail on Saturday afternoon. Mr Whittington, 78, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital where he was treated for pellet wounds to the right side of his face, neck and chest.

A spokesman for the hospital said he was not seriously injured and described his condition as "stable". A witness, Katharine Armstrong, said Mr Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Mr Cheney and a third hunter walked to another spot and discovered a second flock. She said: "Whittington came up from behind the Vice-President and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself.

"The Vice-President didn't see him ... the covey [flock] flushed and the Vice-President picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good." Mr Cheney was said to have visited his friend in hospital.

This is not the first time Mr Cheney has been on a controversial hunt - he once shot 70 farmed ring-neck pheasants in a single session at the Rolling Rock Club in Pennsylvania in 2003. Critics called it a "canned hunt".

[TravisBickle]

Back in the days when I was a broadcast journalism student, I would have to call different police departments each night to see if there was anything going on. Usually, the answer was that it was a pretty slow night, which the LE enjoyed. But I had to make the calls, because you never knew. Also, we had scanners on all the time, and when a conversation persisted on the same subject, we listened in.

My guess is that not a single reporter covering the White House made a routine courtesy call to the Sheriff's office. Even though they knew the VP was staying in the area.

Just another example of how reporters are simply lazy, waiting for the story to be given to them.

[aft_lizard]

The Guy misses on one thing here, it was the Armstrong Ranch not the Anderson Ranch.