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Drak_is_Right t1_j7myh4l wrote

The techniques used to hunt a lot of birds makes friendly fire incidents more likely.

I am curious who was really at fault.

A light peppering from a distance of bird shot falling on you is the usual incident. Shot to the face, much more unlikely.

Someone out of position can easily get shot if people fire at motion....or accidentally shoot someone else.

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CSI_Tech_Dept t1_j7n4pv0 wrote

I know very little about the incident, but to me since he apologized it means one of those three things:

  • he is just a extremely humble person
  • Chaney could f--- him up and he is just scared
  • he stood in wrong place or did something that was told not to do during training

Either could be possible (and could be even combination of all of them), but the last one seems like it is the most likely.

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Asyncrosaurus t1_j7ng6dl wrote

From every thing I read about the story, the last one is correct. Although from the insipid memes, you might be tricked into thinking Cheney just decided to shoot a guy one day because he's evil.*

*which he is, but not because of this.

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blargler t1_j7q5fpi wrote

They were also probably drunk, but bottom line cheney pointed the gun at another person and pulled the trigger that's on him.

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spreta t1_j7oq57o wrote

I haven’t hunted in a minute but one thing I remember is you don’t just fire at movement lol you always get a positive ID before shooting, lest the game warden pop you for killing something out of season or something you don’t have a tag for, or because it could be a FUCKING PERSON

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egyeager t1_j7pqytf wrote

Chaney was very likely mixing his medications with Alcohol

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Bongwaffle t1_j7q7s1u wrote

Allegedly Cheney was drunk when this all took place. I guess when the van these two were in pulled up to the shooting spot, beer cans spilled out onto the ground when the Secret Service opened the door. After the incident they had to hide Dick until he sobered up enough to speak to anyone.

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