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Posted on 02/13/2006 10:38:19 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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lol
This from a magazine that requires a magnifying glass to see the subject of a story in a picture?
#1 Rule of not Real News Magazines: Shut The F*CK UP!
Cross-shooting?
Some fellas I work with have a habit of letting pheasants loose from a fire tower while "hunters", ganged around in a circle, paired up in ten positions along the circle will shoot at the released bird.
Last year, they released mallards and were using steel shot. Quite a few got "dinged" and their pickups had nicks in the paint and windshields.
We kidded them that next year, they need include a windshield repair kit in the hunting gift box they give out.
Just common sense.
I would agree that this "hunt" was rife with logistic problems. From the Secret Service to the drive and shoot.
"Scratch my last reply, I just read more details of the accident.
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No problem, although I did answer. Different hunts require different field rules, certainly. Most of my deer hunting was in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where long ranges and shooting across valleys was the general practice. Also, there were always a lot of other hunters in the area. After a couple of close calls from other hunters, I stopped deer hunting there, and started going to Wyoming.
In California, there are just too darned many people up on the mountain you don't want anywhere within 1000 yards of you. On my last hunt there, up near Lone Pine, I was scanning an area across a valley with my binoculars, just after dawn. I spotted a nice buck picking his way down from a ridgeline, and was just about to scope it.
From below me, to my left, some guy with dog poop for brains actually let go with a full auto M16. He fired about 10 rounds. Never hit the buck, but I just packed up my stuff and climbed out. I never went back there. There are crazy people hunting in California.
I agree. Lugsoul probably hasn't a clue.
Perhaps you can point out the error in what he said.
Sounds like a freakin' circular firing squad. No thanks. I think I'll pass on that place.
Those are the only 3 rules I know.
You clearly can't exercise the common courtesy that is basic to this forum. And if you are among those trying to explain away the VP's culpability in the shooting, you are sending the worst possible gun safety message.
Hey, I'd hunt with either of you two guys. You get it.
Welcome to FR...
As with any MSM news story - even when its detrimental to Democrats, it starts with the template, how can we make this as negative about the President and his administration, as possible.
Even an accidental shooting becomes a scandal. Its an ACCIDENT!!!!
Personally, I am not taking advice from anybody that writes, much less reads Time magazine.
And your reason for that statement is?
ph>"As a hunter, I would never walk up on a group of other hunters unanounced."
Just common sense.
I would agree that this "hunt" was rife with logistic problems. From the Secret Service to the drive and shoot.
166 posted on 02/13/2006 1:34:39 PM MST by G.Mason
My Daddy once told me "common sense" is not uniformly distributed!
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