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After searching for his birds for a bit, Whittington returned to the vehicle where Katharine Armstrong was. She "told him to go and shoot the second covey," the report says. Whittington walked toward Cheney and Willeford but, as Armstrong later told reporters, didn't announce his presence. "Your first responsibility is to let the other guy know where you are," says Texas A&M professor Dale Rollins, a quail-hunting expert. But Cheney too had a responsibility to know where Whittington was. "It's critical, especially with more than two hunters, to stay in a straight line," says Rollins. Cheney...
...show me any game in their final six that the Lions would be an odds-on favorite to win.UNDERVALUED:Harvard—The Crimson gets four of its final six at home against two teams it handled, one it fell to at the buzzer, and another that needed to shoot the lights out to win. The road trip to Penn and Princeton still looms, but anything less than 5-1 down the stretch would be a disappointment.Dartmouth—Laughing? Come talk to me when the Big Green takes four of its last six and finishes...
...beloved homeland in pursuit of a bird that meant no harm to him and which showed him at last - unintentionally, in a twinkling, and in a way that forever changed his heart and, over time, the hearts of all our leaders - what it was actually like to shoot...
...annoyed by the reporting. I know I've been. For a westerner who likes to hunt and knows about the pastime's risks (I almost shot a friend once while stalking mule deer), watching the Washington press corps cover a story that hinges on a chaotic Texas quail shoot is like watching Prince Charles attempt a native dance. Because they're so good at doing so many other things, the talking heads think they're good at this thing too, even though many of them don't know the difference between a .28-gauge shotgun and an any-caliber rifle...
...like war, I've suggested, but it's also unlike war, mostly because the quarry poses no threat. In a time of actual war - and when one of the hunters helps to run that war - the playfulness of the sport may seem distasteful. To shoot at feathered things while obliging other folks to shoot at much larger creatures that shoot back doesn't seem right somehow, or wise. At some poetic level it tempts the gods, and the gods are always armed. For Cheney, that's the painful, humbling part. For the public, it's the engrossing, mythic part...