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Sorry to bring up bad blood, but I too would question whether you had been QUAIL hunting before Astro.
Not simply 'hunting'. I won't argue that.
If you have, you as well as the others here would know that whilst leading the bird, you are still focusing on it's flight pattern waiting for one of the more common ways that the bird will break in flight and hit them at the most critical part of that flight.
Therefore, your weapon is always pointed slightly AHEAD of the animal, where you expect them to fly, whilst your vision is focussed behind it's aimpoint. Unlike deer hunting where your aimpoint is the same as your point of focus. With this in mind I could easily imagine the accident taking place. Someone also mentioned his glasses, if Whittington was at the edge of the optics as he followed the target it would also make seeing him more difficult.
Also in a walking quail shoot there is much more chance of extending your arc to where it becomes dangerous, unlike a static shoot where the game is beaten toward you and you stand at a safe spot with flags marking the limit of your permitted firing arc.
That said, I believe people could still cast doubts on your claim to be hunting, but only in the aspect of type of hunting. I think the statements made were too general.
'Hunting' as a term is too braod and contains too many different disciplines to simply say that someone has once been hunting and can relate to the situation in hand. Just as I could not claim to ever understand what could cause a formula one racer to crash when I can claim to also have 'driven'.
It's not an attack on you, I just think some things needed to be clarified as to the way they appeared to me upon reading them. If I also got the meaning of the other folks wrong, I also apologise for putting words in their mouth.
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