Who goes quail-hunting at 5:30 pm?

[Stephanie]

Isn't that a morning activity? My grandpa used to hunt quail. I thought it was something you got up at dawn to do. Was it getting dark yet in TX at 5:30? It's illegal to hunt too close to sunset.

[TomInTib]

1. Texas law calls for no shooting within 30 minutes of sunup/sunset.

I will see what time sunset was Saturday.

On edit:
Sunset was 6:08 pm Saturday, Feb 11.

[usregimechange]

24. Isn;t that 30 minutes from suset then? He broke the law?

[usregimechange]

28. I thought I heared that it took place at 5:50.

[central scrutinizer]

2. this was a game farm

they released the tame birds right in front of the "hunters". It's not like there was any real stalking or hunting going on here - pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel.

[Ilsa]

19. Says who?

There is plenty of good quail hunting in South Texas. What news source said it was a game farm?

[central scrutinizer]

30. I might have jumped the gun

so to speak. I had skimmed this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x395842

earlier and failed to notice the Pennsylvania dateline.

[Ilsa]

32. Yeah, I figured that was probably it. This story has long enough

legs on its own and doesn't need any creative embellishment. I even heard one of Jon Stewart's associates allude to it being a canned hunt last night.

[punpirate]

3. Yeah, it's a bit odd...

... central time, in south central Texas, there might be another half-hour to forty-five minutes before dusk, this time of year. But, then, this isn't hunting. This is rich people with guns going out to pre-stocked areas. Blast away, then jump in the truck and head back to the big house on the hill in time for the cocktail hour.




edit typo.

[TomInTib]

5. I'm betting they were smack dab in the middle of cocktail hour....

hence the delay in reporting.

[Gilmore]

26. Nice!

[Dave Reynolds]

4. I used to go any time I had time,

morning or afternoon. Made no difference.

A little bit off topic: I hear on the news people saying that "this is a fairly common occurrence." Must be I am too careful, because any time I pull up to shoot I am keenly aware of what lies beyond what I am shooting at. Yes, these accidents happen, but only when the shooter is a dumb shit.

[punpirate]

7. Stats from Texas...

... list a million licensed Texas hunters in 2004. In that year, there were 29 hunting accidents, 19 involving guns, with four fatalities.

According to Texas Parks & Wildlife, it's not at all common in Texas.

[Stephanie]

11. there you go

thanks! Fifty out of a million! What percentage is that? I wonder if there is a common denominator, such as drink or drugs impairment, or fraily of age and ill health.

[punpirate]

13. TP&W lists the most common denominator...

... to be fatigue.

19 gunshot accidents while hunting in a year. Doesn't sound like a lot for a state the size and population of Texas.

Maybe Cheney was all tuckered out.

[Stephanie]

21. fatigue!

Geez, Dick, did the martinis make you feel TIRED?

[Stephanie]

12. oh, so only 19 gun accidents out of one million hunters?

does that include any of the fatalities? So the odds are 19/1,000,000?

[TomInTib]

8. I got shot by a dumb shit. But he didn't pull a 180 to do it.

[oneighty]

18. "Pull a 180"

Mind now!

180

[TomInTib]

22. Heh Heh...

yeah, and I'm still pissed at you.

[oneighty]

27. Humor hahahaha

Pull a 180. Sail the ship back wards.

All I ever shot with a 'gun' was targets except once I made a hip shot with 22 rifle in the general direction of a red headed wood pecker. Oh my I hit it. Never again I tell myself as I held the bleeding body in my trembling hand.

If you do not eat it do not kill it. These guys kill just for fun.

180

[Stephanie]

10. I saw the stats at the TX website

It was PR about how the # of accidents had gone down last year. It was something like four fatalities and maybe 24 accidents? I'll see if I can find it.

[WI_DEM]

6. two married guys making it with women other than their wives?

[Karenina]

9. Things that make ya go

HMMMMMMM.

[mitchum]

14. Why does this remind me of Renoir's Rules Of the Game?

hmmm...

[flyarm]

15. cnn just had a guy on showing the type bullet cheney used..hubby

said bullshit..and totally uninformed reporter..my hubby said that type bullet would blow up a quail..the type bullet the guy showed was the type you would use on a turkey..not a little quail..

hubby said quail would be annihilated with that size bullet..

seems to me these stories by this media are getting more bizzare by the minute!

fly

[madrchsod]

17. bullets? i don`t think so

they are called "shells" 28 guage is pretty dam small
http://www.chuckhawks.com/28gauge.htm
28 Gauge

[flyarm]

23. not the one that the cnn guy had in his hand.,the one he was showing was..

high base high velocity, buck shot OO buck shot..quail hunters use 7 1/2 or 8 low base shells..

i am talking about the reporter that was on cnn showing what he said Cheney used..he was showing an example...my husband said bullshit...

and i said bullet not my husband hubby said shell..i got it wrong...

to me..shell /bullet..whats the difference..but to hunters there is a big difference...


and to my hubby ..a real big difference, as he was shot years ago..with a 12 gauge
shot gun.. while hunting...with a 8 shell. ..he was hit all over his body with the pellets...and a pellet went into his eye and detatched his retina...he will have a patch on his retina for life..but he did regain sight... thanks to an excellent chinese surgeon.

fly

[madrchsod]

16. two old geezers trying

to impress a couple of 50 something hotties that they can still handle a "gun"...but why would the hotties be tagging along with these two old guys it can`t be for the sex so it must be the thrill of the hunt....

[Stephanie]

29. I think you've got it.

Where were the ranch hands? The dog wranglers, lunch carriers? Nah. Sounds like these four were out in the fields on their own. Expensive thrills.

[Beaverhausen]

20. Happy Hour is the perfect time to go hunting

How sick is this motherf#*ker? Getting drunk and shooting innocent birds.

F*#k you, Cheney! :mad:

[Gilmore]

25. Cheney didn't care!

He's above and beyond the law!

[Plaid Adder]

31. He can't go out in full sun, he'll burn. n/t