Re: "Blood thirsty" sisters
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: stoatstail</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi all,
A few thoughts on this article from the UK perspective...
The "News Of The World" is a gutter level Sunday tabloid newspaper which provides a weekly dose of soft porn, celeb. gossip and sports results... serious journalism it isn't! Read by the unintelligent, uneducated, uninspired and unemployed.
EDIT: I missread the url. THE Daily Mail is a different paper to the News Of The World - not quite as trashy, but bad enough. The rest of the post I stick by.
I rather think this article is a complete fabrication because...
1 Notice the 'family' photo, these people are posing a staged shot (probably lifted from a catalogue) and, quite plainly, are unfamilar with firearms.
2 Notice the nice scrubbed ivory white, unblemished skin - hasn't been out in the African sun on any kind of taxing hunt,
3 Clothes are either unsuitable or immaculately clean and pressed.
4 Complete lack of entry or exit wounds on any of the (I suspect tranquilised) animals... Would a Gemsbuck (sic) really show no wounds considering the calibre reccomended to hunt one.
5 Etc. etc. etc.
A load of fabricated rubbish aimed at uninformed, low IQ readership with the intention of causing resentment. Rich, priveliged people murder animals for fun... you can't do it, so it must be sick and cruel etc. Inciting class hatred to try and attack private gun ownership after a couple of high profile killing sprees in the recent past.
Regards,
Steve
PS wish my first post on SH wasn't so negative
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You might be right about the caliber of the papers mentioned, but you are indeed wrong about the people depicted and the story told, albeit unnecessarily one-sided. More of an editorial than true journalism.
As for their clothes, etc. Dude... they can afford to do these hunts, they can afford to pay extra for not roughing it. It's not like they're in the middle of some Kipling poem... or reenacting Heart of Darkness. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these hunts were in high fence areas or on private land where the animals are easy to bag.
Not all animals will have an exit wound. Sometimes, people pose with the animal with the wound facing away from the camera if there is only an entrance wound. The Gemsbuck is about the size of a cow elk. You don't need a .800 HFS Magnum to take one down. Anything .243 or larger should do the trick with proper shot placement. I have a feeling with the game these girls hunt, they can put bullet on vitals from a distance that would shame many members here. I see nothing particularly unsuitable in their manner of dress for the way they probably hunt and in the manner they do it. Large amounts of cash, minimal chance of not seeing and getting a shot at the animal. Likely from a vehicle or while being driven around by one. They never claimed to be out there like Jeremiah Johnson.
Anyway, here's her website:
http://www.adventurewoman.com/sara.php
Another article:
http://womensoutdoornews.com/2010/06/my-...slam-for-sheep/
