Posted on 04/11/2006 3:52:46 AM PDT by IrishMike
ALBUQUERQUE (April 10) - Years before Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a lawyer during a Texas quail hunt, Cheney himself was on the receiving end of an errant shotgun blast.
Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest said he doesn't know for certain if he or his twin brother, Dick Forrest, fired the shot during the hunting trip in the late 1990s. It accidentally pelted Cheney, who was then chief executive at Halliburton Co.
"We're probably the only twins in the United States that have shot the vice president and never have gone to jail," Forrest joked. The Albuquerque Journal reported the incident Sunday.
Cheney wasn't hurt but he was miffed, Forrest told the Journal.
"He said, 'You guys watch where you're shooting!' He was very offended," Forrest said.
The hunting group included the Forrest twins, Cheney and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. They were hunting on a southern New Mexico ranch owned by the late Colin McMillan, an assistant secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush, Forrest said. He said the senator wasn't the shooter.
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It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye...
hells bells.....I have been hit by my own pellets as I shot straight up.....a number of seconds later it felt like rain. No biggie. hail would hurt a lot more.
One time a stranger with a beagle was running wabbits and I was viewing him and his dog in the distance. the dog was pushing a bunny straight at me...he was oblivious to me...as the rabbit reached me he fired.....pellets bounced off my winter blaze orange jacket (i looked like the bright orange koolade pitcher guy...dont know how he could not have seen me). not with enough force to break the skin if I had had no jacket. He had fired way too far out of range to kill the rabbit.
I did spew forth a series of expletives and left no doubt as to my displeasure with this clown. I believe he saw me and wanted to make sure that I did not take his hare from him, so he shot first.
This is the extent of my close calls for more than 40 years of hunting.
I'd still rather go hunting with Dick than driving with Ted...
And . . .
Hunting is still safer than playing golf, football, swimming, skiing, etc.
Look it up, this is a fact. Pretty neat considering millions go afield every year across this nation, toting guns, and it is still safer than playing ping pong.
"...and it is still safer than playing ping pong."
So don't be puttin' those ping pong balls in your mouth, LOL!
DH was shot at during deer season a number of years ago. Some IDIOT was shooting over the fence line onto OUR property at a deer. DH has by a tree and he heard the bullet go past his head.
I didn't know DH KNEW so many swear words. That guy's just lucky DH didn't return fire.
When you have private land adjacent to public land, you can have some problems with idiots and guns. :(
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Sounds like the idiot was on public property when he shot. Maybe he was just trying to scare the deer off the wealthy landowners property over to where he could shoot it. It would be hard to prove trespassing when it was the bullet that trespassed, not the guy.
I HATE NO TRESPASSING signs.
as the rabbit reached me he firedWow, that's one scary bunny.
"I HATE NO TRESPASSING signs."
Yes, he was shooting onto private property, from public property.
"Maybe he was just trying to scare the deer off the wealthy landowners property over to where he could shoot it."
Maybe his previous wild shots on public land scared the deer over to private land?
I take it you've taken a few rounds of buckshot in the backside over the years for trespassing on others' property? Do you walk into your neighbors' homes and help yourself to what's in the fridge and freezer, too? *Rolleyes*
my participle must be dangling again. I do that.
I'm not supposed to end sentences with a preposition, but I will continue to. ;')
I take part in handgun games nearly every weekend, once a month we have 3 gun matches, that include handgun, rifle and shotgun.
I've never been hit directly, but have lost count of the times I've been hit with splatter from steel targets, usually lead and often a jagged copper jacket. Occasionally, it will break the skin on someone and is fully capable of putting out an eye.
Needless to say, we all wear our eye protection in addition to hearing protection.
I don't know the particulars, but anyone who owns private land abutting federal land could expect this. If your beloved is sitting right next to the public land, maybe he should move onto his property a little further to avoid the hunting element he doesn't like.
No, I do not trespass, but when I was young, no trespassing signs were rare. Now all the farmers and landowners complain about all the deer destroying their plantings, etc. then they put up no trespassing signs to keep everyone out. Then they go to the DNR for landowner permits so they can shoot more deer than they could otherwise. I believe anyone getting these permits ought to be forced to have a "hunting with permission" policy and be allowed to limit the numbers of hunters that are allowed there.
I'm sick of uppity landowners who will not consider reasonable people hunting on their land unless they have a large enough hunting party themselves to control the herd.
YOU WON'T OWN THE LAND WHEN YOU ARE GONE ANYWAY!
Also when you start calling names like "idiots with guns" you do decent hunters no favors and taint the image of the sport. Do you call bad drivers "idiots with cars"? I could go on and on but YOU and YOURS are part of the problem.
Sir, if you do not like "No Trespassing" signs, then go buy yourself some land to hunt on, and stop whining that others who have worked hard and saved to own some or our great nation aren't inviting you or your hunting buddies over to play. And yes, there are a lot of idiots with guns out there (witness the Asian immigrant idiot who shot and killed some hunters in Michigan when they kicked him out of THEIR deer stand), and it is THEY that are giving good, responsible hunters and sportsmen a bad name, not FR's Diana in Wisconsin, or myself.
Anyone who hunts illegally on my property and cops an attitude with a gun, probably won't go home.
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