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Leonard
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posted December 09, 2010 08:36 AM
I haven't watched the show. But, I did see a clip a few minutes ago, of her shooting a caribou. I hate to dump on her gratuitously, as many pundits already have, but.
That was ridiculous. I lost count, after five shots, (I think?) and then somebody hands her another rifle and she connects.
Okay, let us say that her gun was off or something? That's why they have the ability to edit their footage, back in the studio. I think it was deplorable to show her banging away at a very stupid caribou with extra small antlers. I don't know, maybe it was a cow, but it definitely wasn't a trophy.
Come on Sarah! We have to defend this stuff! She asks; "does it kick?" Well, so much for being a seasoned outdoors person. I am left to conclude that she never saw either of those rifles before?
If that's what the rest of the show is like, I am puzzled. The caribou clip was just plain phony. Somebody should have realized that. She, (apparently) is much more of a fisherman than hunter...unless she makes that abundantly clear, in the episode?
Poor judgement, Sarah. She's a Babe, but WTF?
Good hunting. LB
edit: http://www.popeater.com/2010/12/08/aaron-sorkin-sarah-palin/
[ December 09, 2010, 08:39 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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TA17Rem
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posted December 09, 2010 09:40 AM
Yep she appears to be a little green. The vidio could of been alot worse, like hitting and wounding the animal 3-4 times. Atleast she is trying and shows some interest in hunting. Can't say that for most of the presidents we had since I've been around.....
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TheHuntedOne
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posted December 09, 2010 11:11 AM
She may suck as a caribou hunter, but you ought to see her work a turkey call ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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RagnCajn
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posted December 09, 2010 12:36 PM
Al, that is funny. I have a visual.
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the bearhunter
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posted December 09, 2010 01:22 PM
i seen on another site that her father face-planted carrying the rifle and musta knocked it off. she does handle the gun good
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posted December 09, 2010 04:55 PM
She could handle my "gun" good!! ya know "this is my rifle this is my gun, one is for fightin one is for fun"
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knockemdown
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posted December 10, 2010 06:06 AM
Although those consecutive misses were painful to watch, it did appear that daddy's rifle wasn't on point. And I gotta give 'props' for not editing the misses out...
I'm thinkin' Mrs. Palin needs to have a nice little 7-08 built for herself before her next TV hunt. Problem solved!
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posted December 10, 2010 02:28 PM
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posted December 10, 2010 04:44 PM
Pretty plain some demorat messed with the sights on the wood handled rifle. She sure as hell hit the thing with the first shot with a rifle that shoots where you point it. Good on her.
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Leonard
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posted December 10, 2010 05:14 PM
That sounds like a conspiracy theory?
But, stuff like that does happen. I remember, a long time ago, we were camped and my partner leaned his heavy barreled 22 Varminter (an Oberndorf Mauser with double set triggers) against the side of the truck. Sometime later, it slid down and fell and he didn't think too much about it. That night, I lit up a gray fox standing on a rock that was half the size of a small house, maybe more? He shot and missed and shot again and missed again and the fox moved down the face of the rock enough that I could see the impact so we adjourned and checked it out. The objective had actually broken loose from the barrel, useless, so we put it away and he sent it to Leupold and they fixed it.
That rifle was made before Remington standardized dimensions and it had a bit more capacity that normal. Performance was on par with a 220 Swift due to the chamber and the 30" barrel. We both killed a lot of cats and coyotes with that rig. In those days our eyes were very similiar and it was much simplier to keep one rifle on top instead of switching whenever we switched shooters. Some teams have a habit of changing jobs either every stand, or every kill but we never messed with that stuff. WE switched when somebody wanted to switch, Plenty of times I drove all night, and plenty of times, I worked the light all night. But, most of the time we switched when somebody got cold or got sleepy from driving or just got bored with what they were doing, which happened maybe 4 or 5 times a night. As I said, this is a lot different from most teams where they always wanted time on the gun and rotated every stand. Pat and I had killed way more animals than to worry about who was ahead, on a particular hunt.
Good hunting. LB
PS Dan, (the man) who sent me that application to join Desert hunter yesterday, out of the blue? You or Clever Gary?
[ December 10, 2010, 05:19 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Kokopelli
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posted December 11, 2010 06:59 AM
Oh, just have somebody give her an iron sighted lever action 30-30..................and a turkey call. She'll do fine. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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posted December 11, 2010 10:58 AM
I heard it was Barry that sent you the invite.
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Leonard
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posted December 11, 2010 04:59 PM
God dammit, Dan! You must be really tight with Berry?
He registered today, along with an email assuring me that it's really him. He said he probably "won't be participating much, but, you never know?"
Kinda surprising, but what does it have to do with that thing Gary runs? Or, you run or you both control, or you're the silient partner, or just a member who likes everyone to think he's really connected? Oh, and quiet well off.
Good hunting. LB
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Lonny
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posted December 12, 2010 06:08 AM
I caught the episode last night. Despite the scope that went south and the misses that followed, I thought the episode did a better job of portraying hunting than most anything I've seen on the boob tube in quite awhile.
It actually looked like they covered some ground hunting and herds of caribou weren't exactly running them over. Even though caribou aren't the most cagey critters on the planet it looked like they had to work a little crossing creeks, tundra, etc.. for what they did get.
What impressed me the most was how they showed them taking care of the meat and bringing it home where they cut it up at the Palin house (bloody hands and all, egad!). My youngest son, when watching the meat cutting part part said, "Thats what we do at grandma and grandpa's house." I think the episode portrayed what many average American's still do every fall.
How aout that gal that lived by herself on the edge of nowhere. Survived a bear attack and months at a time all by herself. I'd like to hear more about her.
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