These lunatics are lower than poachers!

[eauclaireliberal]

Remember, Cheney had the media spin the b.s. about Kerry's "new cammo" meant he wasn't a true hunter. Bring a barf bag.
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Cheney's Canned Kill, and Other Hunting Excesses of the Bush Administration

By Wayne Pacelle

Vice President Dick Cheney went pheasant shooting in Pennsylvania in December 2003, but unlike most of his fellow hunters across America, he didn't have to spend hours or even days tramping the fields and hedgerows in hopes of bagging a brace of birds for the dinner table.

Upon his arrival at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, gamekeepers released 500 pen-raised pheasants from nets for the benefit of him and his party. In a blaze of gunfire, the group�which included legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with major fundraisers for Republican candidates�killed at least 417 of the birds. According to one gamekeeper who spoke to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cheney was credited with shooting more than 70 of the pen-reared fowl.

After lunch, the group shot flocks of mallard ducks, also reared in pens and shot like so many live skeet. There's been no report on the number of mallards the hunting party killed, but it's likely that hundreds fell.

Rolling Rock is an exclusive private club for the wealthy with a world-class golf course and a closed membership list. It is also a "canned hunting" operation�a place where fee-paying hunters blast away at released animals, whether birds or mammals, who often have no reasonable chance to escape. Most are "no kill, no pay" operations where patrons only shells out funds for the animals they kill.

Bird-shooting operations offer pheasants, quail, partridges, and mallard ducks, often dizzying the birds and planting them in front of hunters or tossing them from towers toward waiting shotguns. There are, perhaps, more than 3,000 such operations in the United States, according to outdoor writer Ted Williams.<<<<<

[lonestarnot]

1. Where's PITA? And why aren't they on this joint? n/t

[Extend a Hand]

2. really sicko

I've never heard of such a club. Truly sickening.

[livinginphotographs]

3. So he kills animals and Iraqis in his sparetime.

Why are we surprised? He and the rest of the ruling class in this country are nothing but sociopaths.

He probably got a woody for every creature he shot out of the sky. A completely disgusting excuse for a human being...

[Squatch]

4. I've participated in pheasant release hunts...

Although the birds are released 2 days before the area is opened to hunters.

I usually draw a goosegg on those hunts, but they're a good excuse to get outside and "do a little grocery shopping."

[The Sad Little Pony]

6. Exactly.

It's not out of the ordinary.
It's just what wealthy hunters, on a tight schedule, do.

[Squatch]

8. Actually, didn't cost me any more than my normal hunting license...

The release was organized by the WA DFW. Here's the link:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/water/wwapheas.htm

It's been years since I've personally participated in one of these release hunts, I had to buy a small game license and a Western WA Pheasant tag.

Wealthy? Not by any stretch.
On a tight schedule? Who isn't, but I always find time to hunt, fish, camp, hike, etc.

[Rapcw]

5. wow, 70

he must play a lot of hunting games n/t

[Uncle Roy]

9. Like the hunt for WMD in Iraq, or the hunt for OBL in Afghanistan...(nfm)

[driver8]

7. Dick Cheney has got to be the biggest asshole on the face of

the earth. I really do think I hate that sumbitch more than I hate the shrub.

[mitchum]

10. Pathetic