Jonathan Cook wrote:

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Action News that Cheney shot about 70 stocked pheasants and mallards

Isn't anyone taking the bait?


Man, you didn't even wait half a day! It must be snowing or something
up there. Down here, I was riding through our mini-Grand Canyon all day.
Well, that's a slight exaggeration, but it was a great day, probably
65 and sunny.

We had a ferocious storm last night, but today was fine. We're having
our annual XC Ski Festival, and it's been a big hit. They drank up five
gallons of my homebrew this afternoon.

No riding (we have four feet of snow), but I visited my horses
yesterday, in Round Valley, and spent an hour steelhead fishing right by
their pasture on the Salmon River. No luck. They're still stacked up
below the Pahsimeroi hatchery.

Is shooting 70 farm-raised pheasants and ducks in one day sportsmanlike?


Probably not. But is catching 50 trout in a one day sportsmanlike? (OBROFF)

No, it isn't. One should quit well before 50. IMO.

Someone I know (closely) has been on a stocked pheasant hunt back east.
But in their hunt, the birds were released the previous day, and they
hunted them up with dogs. More like stocker trout fishing. It sounds like
Cheney and gang just sat there and sipped tea as the field hands released
birds to fly over them. I wouldn't care to partake in that.

Me neither. It gives me the creeps, frankly.

I always wanted to go pheasant hunting, though. Maybe Vang will host
something someday :-) When I was about ten I pulled up on what I
thought was a grouse (we were grouse hunting after all) but it didn't
look right and finally I realized it was a hen pheasant. First and
only pheasant I've ever seen hunting.

I've never been bird hunting, apart from plinking songbirds with a
pellet gun when I was a kid, but this year I'm changing that. We don't
have pheasants, but my goal is to bag geese, turkey, and chukar this
year. Wish me luck.

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