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Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam
This is true, but in no way absolves Cheney of responsibility. It is the responsibility of the shooter to identify the target and what is beyond it. Most any hunter education program can clear this up for you if my word does not suffice.
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Do you know the blast pattern of birdshot? Have you ever hunted birds? When flowing the flight path of birds and aiming through sites, you must know that all members of the hunting party are not in the line of the flight path, predictable because they will fly in the opposite direction of the dogs that scare them out of the brush.
But wait! Cheney did know about all members of the hunting party.....except the one that came back unannounced.
Sigh.
The hunting safety you are referring to is regarding ground based game. You never fire a rifle or arrow at a land based target without knowing what was behind it. This is not possible when following the flight path of birds.