Speaking of hunting...

Sensing trouble over Crawlgate, the Kerry campaign turned for help not to his band of brothers, but, as the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel explained, to a cousin, one Bruce Droste, who said he hunted deer with Kerry "roughly half-a-dozen times in Massachusetts, most recently about seven years ago... The hunts were tied to an annual house party on private property, and the hunters used buckshot, partly for safety reasons, because of its short range. 'When you see (a deer), you absolutely freeze. Then the game is to see how you can get closer. . . . So you crawl along until you know you have a dead ringer shot.'" The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. --Andrew Stuttaford, National Review

Can anyone in the audience, especially the hunting types, explain to me how a human being can manage to crawl along the forest floor, most likely over dead leaves, brush, shrubs, and twigs, and get close enough to a deer to get the best shot, without it knowing you're there? A deer that has razor-sharp hearing, a keen sense of smell, and a very reluctant demeanor, compared to a clumsy human, with a laughable sense of smell, ears that can sometimes not hear a tree falling in the forest when it falls right in front of them(Steven Wright joke), and the subtlety of an elephant on its tiptoes...

Boggles the mind.