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Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d4e2e397-1896-4628-8d7d-8ecf9680802e@googlegroups.com: 

> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 12:52:42 PM UTC-4, Gutless
> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote: 
>> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote in
>> news:af6fe855-e975-4923-ab64-1ea14f10d6c9@googlegroups.com: 
> [...]
>> That still doesn't explain why it's only waterfowl.
> 
> Two reasons.
> 1. Shooting a rifle at a target on or in front of a lake can be
> very dangerous, as the bullet can riccochet off the water at
> lethal speed and random direction.

Shooting a rifle at a target on or in front of the ground can 
produce much the same effect, especially if there are rocks lying 
ab out.
> 
> 2. Shooting a water fowl on the ground is considered Very Bad
> Form, sportswise. The term 'like shooting a sitting duck' has
> its origin here. 

I doubt that sportsmanship has anything to do with it. In that part 
of rural Ameirca, shooting at a sitting duck or at fish in a barrel 
is not considered a bad thing.
> 
>> >  Although bullets 
>> > shot up into the air also land somewhere, if they 
>> > don't land in an airborne duck.
>> > 
>> Only dangerous if you're shooting at a low angle. At a higher 
>> angle, it'll be traveling at terminal velocity before it comes 
>> down, and Mythbusters did that one.
> 
> No one but an ill-equipped idiot is going to shoot bullets at a
> waterfowl (yes, I know there are some of those out there). You
> use a shotgun. The range of birdshot is only about 300 years,
> and at the end of that range they're just falling pellets. 

Which only further begs the question of what the purpose of the 
abovementioned law it.

-- 
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 14:05 -0500
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 13:19 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-07 15:29 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 13:36 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:23 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:20 -0500
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:53 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:02 +0800
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-11 10:57 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:45 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:34 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:05 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 22:17 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-08 05:43 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 07:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-08 14:12 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 13:18 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 13:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:01 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 00:21 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:04 +0800
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:31 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 06:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 17:10 +0000
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:49 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:15 -0600
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:24 -0400
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:28 +0000
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 06:48 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:52 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 07:16 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 08:20 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:57 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:27 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:54 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:56 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 03:17 -0600
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:20 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-06-07 22:32 +0000
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 15:49 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 02:55 -0700
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 06:25 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:54 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 10:44 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 13:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-08 17:26 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 15:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:48 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 00:08 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:31 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 02:48 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:22 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 10:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:24 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 20:15 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 04:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 06:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:19 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 13:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-11 23:39 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 18:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 04:33 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-13 14:17 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:01 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-14 00:22 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 02:30 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-12 14:17 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 14:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 00:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 06:23 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 15:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 08:50 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-13 16:58 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-13 17:22 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 04:54 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-13 22:40 -0600
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-14 03:35 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 06:07 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-14 06:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:38 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving leif.roar@dimnakorr.com - 2016-06-14 10:07 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 16:30 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Jesper Lauridsen <rorschak@sorrystofanet.dk> - 2016-07-07 00:16 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 14:37 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:25 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-14 23:13 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-15 02:03 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 03:37 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 13:53 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-15 14:06 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-15 22:04 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2016-06-10 03:36 +0100
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-06-10 14:28 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-10 19:09 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:14 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:00 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:23 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 18:28 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-08 18:57 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 03:35 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 14:16 +0800
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0400
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 21:34 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-08 21:52 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2016-06-09 18:00 +1200
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-08 23:32 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 16:25 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-06-08 23:51 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 07:08 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-10 12:12 +0800
        Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 09:52 -0700
          Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 12:05 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:00 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 14:22 -0700
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-08 18:50 -0400
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 19:21 -0500
            Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-09 04:14 -0600
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-09 03:29 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 08:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:29 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 11:33 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-06-11 06:11 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-09 18:26 +0000
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 11:49 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 12:42 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 18:10 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-10 02:31 -0500
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 09:01 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-09 18:56 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 05:58 -0700
                Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-11 07:27 -0700
              Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-09 07:04 -0500
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-06-08 13:23 +0000
  Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-06-07 20:14 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 20:37 -0700
      Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-07 21:16 -0700
    Re: 170 days to Thanksgiving Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:55 -0700

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