Just heard on NPR that he was hunting quail with buckshot, and the man who was hit in the cheek by buckshot is "doing fine"...of course NPR is SOOOO accurate, it couldn't really have been BIRDshot!
Hit in the cheek with birdshot and doing okay makes sense. Hit in the cheek with buckshot is a different thing. Of course, I've given up on media getting firearms terminology correct. Most of them can't tell the difference between a revolver and a semi-automatic or fully automatic weapon.