It has been exactly 10 years since Dick Cheney became just the second sitting Vice President to shoot a man.

On February 11, 2006, Cheney was hunting quail at the Armstrong Ranch in Texas with lawyer Harry Whittington and two women when he accidentally fired his gun at the lawyer, hitting him in the face, chest, and neck with hundreds of pellets.

Despite a minor heart attack Whittington survived the incident, but some of the pellets are still lodged in his body and Cheney has yet to apologize.

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Rough day: Dick Cheney accidentally shot Harry Whittington in the face will the two men were hunting 10 years ago on February 11, 2006 (Whittington speaking with the press as he left the hospital on February 17, 2006)

Poor shot: The men were quail hunting when Cheney (above in December 2015) lodged approximately 200 pellets in the right side of Whittington's body

Aim better: Whittington says that 10 years later he still has pellets stuck in him and that he has yet to receive an apology from Cheney (above in a 2002 file photo)

The New York Daily News spoke with Whittington on the anniversary of the incident, who said: 'He never did need to apologize. It was an accident.

'He expressed his concern about me publicly, but he never had reason to apologize because we knew how seriously he was affected by it.'

He also said that some of the pellets are still lodged in his cheek, neck and other parts of his body but are not causing any medical problems and he still has 'no problem getting on airplanes.'

Whittington has even returned to hunting, going out with his son-in-law and some friends recently and shooting a gun for the first time in 10 years.

The 88-year-old has not lost his touch either it would seem as he managed to hit a quail with that first shot.

Cheney meanwhile may not have publicly, or personally, apologized to his friend, but he did write about the accident in his 2011 memoir In My Time.

'I, of course, was deeply sorry for what Harry and his family had gone through,' wrote Cheney.

'The day of the hunting accident was one of the saddest of my life.'

Above and beyond: Whittington (above in 2010) not only played down the incident but also apologized to Cheney and his family for any stress it caused them

Scene of the accident: The incident occured at Texas' Armstrong Ranch (above) while the two were hunting together

Worthington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital for treatment, and three days after his arrival suffered a minor heart attack from a pellet lodged in his heart.

He played down the incident after her recovered a few days later and upon being released from the hospital with roughly 30 pellets still stuck in his body did the one thing Cheney has yet to do - apologize.

While he was the one who was hit with 200 pellets and suffered a minor heart attack, Whittington said in a statement; 'My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this week.'

Cheney continued to hunt in the wake of the accident, and he and Aaron Burr remain the only two men to shot someone while serving as Vice President.

In Burr's case, he fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton during their 1804 duel.