United States Vice President Dick Cheney has reportedly taken up his rifle and has gone back to the shooting range Monday, in upstate New York.

This time, the preferred location was the Hudson River Valley, where the vice president spent the entire day in the privacy of the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, located at Dutchess County, just outside of Lagrangeville.

When asked by the New York Post about his concerns, Bill Tryon, a deer hunter at the nearby Mid- Country Rod & Gun Club, said he had no worries about Cheney wielding another gun.

"As long as he doesn't shoot anyone in the ass," commented Tryon, whose shooting range was located on the other side of Clove Mountain.

The vice president came under critical and farcical fire last 2006, when he accidentally shot hunting companion, 78-year old Harry Whittington, during a hunting trip in Texas.

Controversy was worsened by Cheney's concealment of the event for four days.

Whittington announced that there were no ill feelings being harbored against Cheney. However, he was more than upset by how the media was swarming all over the story, and putting the vice president in a more painful and embarrassing situation.

Cheney admitted that the accidental shooting of the old man was "one of the worst days" of his life.