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To: combjelly who wrote (274448)	2/14/2006 3:53:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570554

"I have read three news stories on how it happened and I still don't understand what actually did happen. " The details have been fuzzed, likely deliberately. The initial reports seem to indicate that Whittington only got a few pellets. Yet he was in the ICU until yesterday. Hmm, ok, he is 78 after all. But this information makes it clear that wasn't the case. He was in the ICU because he was badly hurt. Yes, in fact, the WH was trying to make a joke of it. Clearly, certain information was withheld. Cheney isn't a novice gun handler, although given his taste for mass slaughtering of cage raised birds I hesitate to call him a 'hunter'. They weren't hunting birds in the wild? This was a staged hunt? I could see where Whittington got caught in the edge of a pattern if Cheney was leading a flying bird. But Whittington should have been squarely in his sights with that many pellets. IIRC, even a cylinder choke has a pattern that is about 3 feet across at 30(?) yards. So to get half or more of the pellets, Whittington had to be caught dead center or was very close, probably some combination of the two. How Cheney shot him that serious means either he was completely caught up in shooting that bird, or he was drunk. Knowing Cheney, he may have been annoyed that the guy got in the way of his shooting. We know the kind of temper he has.....its either that, or he was drunk. It wasn't like they were hunting at nite when visibility might have been effected. Beyond that, I don't see how you could have shot someone with that may pellets at such close range and not been able to stop or turn your rifle away.