[CFC__VRWC]

Cheney was using No. 7½ shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets typically are made of steel or lead; the pellets in No. 7½ shot are just under one-tenth of an inch in diameter.

This is the first story I've seen where they actually got the information about the gun and the shot correct.

[headstamp]

Cheney was using No. 7½ shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets typically are made of steel or lead; the pellets in No. 7½ shot are just under one-tenth of an inch in diameter.


Very fortunate it was such a small gauge with a light payload of shot. Do you know what choke is run in a quail gun? I'm guessing cylinder bore or modified. Would have been a wide dispersal at 30 yards limiting hits on Whittington.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I've been subjected to a ton of reporting about this and no one has mentioned the concept of a choke or barrel length or spray pattern. It makes a lot of difference how large the spread of shot is at the distance that lay between Cheney and Whittington. Keith Olberman et. al. want everyone to believe that he was firing a rifle and aimed dead on on at Whittington. If the truth is that Whittington was at the edge of the spray pattern and that pattern is quite large, and Cheney was shooting to the west (i.e., into the sun) it is still a mistake, but one easier to imagine. But facts like these would never find their way into the mass of reportage done so far. Why get confused with facts?

[Semi Civil Servant]

This is the first story I've seen where they actually got the information about the gun and the shot correct.

I heard today on Fox that Cheney was using "5.5 mm" shot. Ouch.