Vice President has shot a person in hunting accident

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:02 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="606866"]
Birds never fly across the 100* or so right in front of you, then?[/quote]
nope.. like bigity said, they arent that stupid, or that predictable..

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:19 pm

Wow. They must be pretty damn clever to know every time where the hunters are, where they're facing, and such, to bolt in a way that everyone in the group always or even usually have to turn into blind spots to fire...

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:29 pm

its the eratic nature of the birds that you are either missing or failing to acknowledge..

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:31 pm

Oh, I can believe you miss them a couple times they go up they'll go all over the place except in front of you ... but what I'm having a hard time buying is that they never, or even "only rarely", fly up from or even through the established field of fire for the group of hunters as they're oriented without having to turn beyond the hundred and ... twenty? ... degrees or so of the field of vision in front of them.

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:12 pm

okay.. very rarely they fly up and directly away from you. :-p maybe .00001% of the time :-p
Real hunting isnt like Duck Hunt.. Although, that was an awesome game.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:15 pm

You do realize I don't mean "exactly right in front of you", but "the path of their flight within range passes anywhere within roughly 80* left or right of right in front of you", right?

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:17 pm

so yeah, pretty much 160-180 degrees. Yeah.. anything is possible :-p but if something is 80 degrees to your right, you are still going to swing and shoot.. and may hit someone..

HTRN · Post by **HTRN** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:36 pm

Struck, I don't think you're getting how fast and how difficult it can be to hunt birds - if you can, go to a local clay pidgeon field and watch for a couple of minutes, and keep in mind that the Clay's are traveling in a straight line.

HTRN

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:37 pm

and from a known location..

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:46 pm

[quote="HTRN";p="607066"]Struck, I don't think you're getting how fast and how difficult it can be to hunt birds - if you can, go to a local clay pidgeon field and watch for a couple of minutes, and keep in mind that the Clay's are traveling in a straight line.

HTRN[/quote]

Clay pidgeon? Like skeet? It's not so hard ...

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:36 am

once again.. straight line from a known starting point..

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:42 am

But if I'm half-turned away from the thrower, and they pull without me yelling, just the sound of it firing, I can hit it well enough as it comes through my field of vision ... epsecially if it were a cluster of pigeons, not just a single one.

What? Am I just good?

mikehendo · Post by **mikehendo** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:59 am

straight line.. predictable movement..

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:08 am

I'm aware of that, mike.

I'll draw a diagram and post it, or something. Seems to be hard to explain in just text.

Lunatic Jedi · Post by **Lunatic Jedi** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:15 am

But what matters is that we finally got an answer to that question that Cheney asks himself all the time...

"Is Dick Cheney gonna have to smoke this bitch?"

Come on, you know he thinks it.

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