Re: Palin hunting Video
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: skinney</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: COURAGEWOLF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
The same could be said of first amendment supporters and people like Julian Assange. Would you applaud him for standing up for freedom of speach? I'm assuming you believe strongly in the first amendment. </div></div>
hmmm... a woman trying to shoot an animal with a rifle thats off 0 (she doesn't know is off 0), who agrees with our rights and hunting privileges and loves our country..., compared to wikileaks releasing classified docs, with means of trying to destroy our country... i am all for the 1st amend, but assange releasing classified leaks... i don't call that freedom of SPEECH..., call it what you will.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SDWhirlwind</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: COURAGEWOLF</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SDWhirlwind</div><div class="ubbcode-body">While I don't find her appealing politically I do feel she loves her country and what it stands for. Sure funny how some of you 'males' of superior intelligence would have no issues with posting the same flipping antics of your wife or girlfriend and defend their incompetence with a firearm and hunting till death!! Seen it here numerous times over the yrs! Guess it is easy to critique someone else when 'we' ourselves are all so competent and proficient huh??? Would love to hear some of the excuses for the inability to competently hit the caribou from some of you. Ammo? Airline dropped the rifle? Shitty scope? Rotation of the earth different above the Artic Circle? You was looking at Russia and not concentrating?
Give the woman a break. We as a shooting community are fighting for every able body we can muster to defend our rights and our sport! I am sure 'we'(myself included) would never or have never done what she did. Give her credit for not demanding the vid be edited to show 'political and hunting' correctness!!!! Her 'incompetence' may well bring hundreds of women to the ranges seeing as many of their husbands won't!
I am willing to bet that 90%+ of the shooters on this forum NEVER 100% of the time outshoot their rifle!!!
Now rag on my ass awhile! I am an imperfect big boy!
Respectfully,
Dennis </div></div>
If someone posts a video of their wife taking several shots repeatedly at a live animal she's obviously in no shape to actually hit(it's maybe 200 yards away bullets should all be landing near the lung region) I will be the first to call both them and their wife a retard for not exhibiting plain old fashioned common sense.
If we were to magnify the situation by putting it on some bullshit reality TV show making them look like an idiot in front of the entire country for the love of money that goes doubly so.
There's nothing wrong with calling a duck a duck when it's quacking into your face.
I'm certain she loves her country to. How that helps her case in this situation I don't understand though loving your country isn't just some excuse for incompetence. I mean, she's trying to convince people that this is a big part of her life, and that it's something she grew up with, and yet she's got someone else cycling the bolt action for her?
Seems pretty suspicious to me. She's either incompetent, or putting up a facade you pick. </div></div>
You have valid points which I can't argue with! Everyone should be proficient with their rifle for the sake of humane kills. With that being said over 40yrs of watching local, out of area and out of state hunters shoot deer, antelope and prairie dogs I can't count the number of 'proficient MALE' hunters from teenagers to 60+yr old I have witnessed empty a rifle and not hit anywhere close to suppodedly POA more less the critter itself!!!! Look at some of the pics guys here post of their wives/girlfriends shooting, post the same critiques on those pics as you are about this issue!!! Shouldn't be a difference if we are discussing form, correct and experienced firearms handling etc should there????
I have 100,000+ rds behind me and have scared many a coyote. They ran until they stroked out while I stood there in 'disbelief' with an empty rifle that WAS capable of hitting POA!!
Shit happens but that don't justify the name calling and ego's 'we' males have demonstated here! She is just human and to her credit didn't make a bunch of horseshit excuses like many MEN I have met, shot with or read about on this forum!!!
Just pisses me off at the 'perfection' that supposedly exists with many of the SH members who have no issues with condemning others because of sex, background, etc. Yes, she is probably doing most of it for the money and publicity, how does that make her different than other celebrities? Guess she needs implants? No morales? Screw 59 different guys??? She needs the morales of an NBA player? I'll bet everything I own she thinks more of her consitution, country and state then Hollyweird celebs do!!!
Now I am done with MY opinion!!!
Respectfully,
Dennis </div></div>
Dennis damn fine opinion. </div></div>
My point was that just because someone champions a cause you believe in doesn't necessarily mean they're going to benefit that cause. You may think it's a benefit, but really you're just happy someone is cheerleading your cause you're a choir member.
I wasn't comparing the two actions I figured that would be pretty clear.
I'm willing to gamble I've personally convinced more anti gun liberals in the last two years that owning firearms was a safe fun hobby that all Americans should be able to enjoy than Palin will in her entire life, and I'm not even making millions of dollars embarassing myself on national television!
