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To: loantech who wrote (6645)	2/16/2006 11:13:16 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78421

There is no evidence of a much smaller distance. If it were less, the wound in the center would be a mass of pellets and much more serious. Since it was not described as such, it is seeming evident that it was a quarter of the pattern, possibly 75 or more pellets with the centre being over his left shoulder. This would explain why a few pellets found their way into his lungs and heart and some were on his cheek but not in his eyes. From the nature of the event he had to come over a rise suddenly or through a thicket (he was walking back to the party when it happened). Generally you cannot get closer to quail than about 75 to 100 feet before they flush so that seems likely the distance they were aiming at. American hunters have a bad habit of "sound shooting" (shooting at sounds) that I have observed for the past 40 or so years. They don't seem to emphasize that enough perhaps because they often shoot with dogs in a flushing situation in much more open country. Our hunts are much less controlled usually, as you don't flush partridge and duck in the same way, and we use dogs less. It may have been that tendency to shoot at rustles that caused it, and since Cheney said he "did not know Whitten was there", or "did not see him" it sounds like it. Cheney wears fairly thick glasses, and may be colour blind. Something he would not advertise. This may have exacerbated the situation. EC<:-}