Septuagenarian Hunting Trips

When I heard that our Veep had accidentally shot his 78 year-old hunting buddy over the weekend, I had to ask:

When does one become too old to hunt?

I'm all for grandfathers and fathers and sons hunting together but is it time to hang up the flannels when you're talking about great-great-grandfathers hunting with great-grandfathers hunting with grandfathers and so on. Don't you want to intervene and say Grandpa Dick, you can't see, you've had ten heart attacks, maybe you want to put down the quavering muzzle of your sawed-off, take out the earplugs, take off the prescription googles and let the fowl go this President's Day?

I'm surprised septuagenarian hunting accidents don't happen more often. In fact, President Bush didn't immediately know that Veep Cheney was the shooter. If I were Dubbs, that would have been my first question and I would have asked with great fear.