Firing down range is firing down range, any way you look at it. I'm not all that familiar with hunting, but you should be able to keep track of who is where at all times.
The "party line" is that the lawyer left the group to pick up a bird he'd shot, and that Cheney wasn't aware. Bird's aren't deer, they take off and you have to be able to get 'em. You're kind of working with a 180 (sometimes 360) degree "range," but you have to be smart about it if you do it that way that you don't hit anyone. Unfortunately, a bird took off and while tracking hit he hit the guy who wandered away from the group, and Cheney didn't think to check before shooting (
a big mistake in my book).
Take with grain of salt.
This could all be BS. He could have mis-fired or done something even dumber than they're saying. Unfortunately we have no way of knowing what really happened. So for now, I'll buy the party line, I'll just be skeptical.
A friend's father got shot in the head with birdshot once. He was walking through a (private) field, and a homeless guy shot him while illegally (very illegally) hunting turkeys. No permit of any kind, no license for the shotgun, and hunting on some private field (not to mention non-zoned for hunting).
Unfortunately, my friend's dad caught a few pellets in the brain and now get's seizures
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurmama
This comment was edited on Feb 14, 17:08.
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama