Dead Eye Joe

Just days after blasting clay pigeons at a new state park shooting range, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin bagged an antelope and some bragging rights over the weekend at the storied One Shot Hunt in Wyoming, The Associated Press reports.

In Wyoming for a conference promoting coal, Manchin joined host Gov. Dave Freudenthal in rating an "X" score on the competition, meaning each killed an antelope with the required single shot.

But Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter "rated only an O, meaning that he had either missed his antelope, or triggered more than a single shot in bringing it down," AP reports.

Begun in 1940, the hunt has underscored the rivalry between Colorado and the 'Cowboy State, "a place with 500,000 residents and more antelope than people," the AP article explains. "And every one of those Wyomingites, it seems, is fiercely proud that they don't live in Colorado."