harrygunner
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Thank you for the insight. I will be spending some time in Alaska, in the future, to get a taste of that refreshing culture.
What a waste of digital storage.
Today, 07:23 AM #30
DM~
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I'm getting a kick out of this thread... A bunch of guys that know little, or nothing about Alaska, all telling how things are done or should be done there.
Perhaps you should spend some time there to see what it's REALLY like before you are so sure about yourself??
For where SP was raised, she is a pretty good outdoorsman, her father and husband are "been there done that" folks, and i respect SP for what she has acccomplished in her life.
I know of where she and her family lives, how the hunting is done there and i'm glad they have put out a show, that's pro gun and pro hunting.
DM
Politics be damned, she looked like a 12 year old on his or her first hunt. My nephew, all of 10 yrs old, shot and killed a mule deer doe @ 200 yards. he didn't need help working the bolt or holding the gun.
He made a clean kill with a single shot. He epitomized what a hunter should strive for....a one shot kill made possible with practice and familiarity with one's weapon of choice.
Palin looked more unprepared and inexperienced than most first-time hunters I've had the joy of accompanying. The people I hunt with practice with the guns they plan to shoot, and are wholly and fully capable of such things like working a bolt or unloading their own weapon. Palin seemed unable to feel the least bit at hiome with a rifle in her hands, contrary to the images and ideas put forth by the media.
A hunter should be familiar with his weapon (which would mean knowing how it operated and how much recoil one could expect) and capable of ID'ing and taking game.
If I were ever afield with someone as seemingly clueless about hunting as Plain appeared to be, I'd abort the hunt until I felt safe sharing the field with her.
Palin didn’t “need” help working the bolt either, that was just DAD…helping out since she was in a prone position. If you look at the video again…DAD just reaches down and works the bolt, Palin didn’t “hand” the rifle to him, so let’s be fair. And Palin certainly had no one helping her “hold” the rifle, don’t know where you got that from or why you threw that in?
Congratulations to you nephew, you can be rightfully proud. Similarly, ONCE Palin was given a rifle that was still zero’d, she ALSO made a clean “one shot” kill, right? (even did it with a weapon she was not familiar with)
If your nephew hand been a handed a rifle that had recently had the optics “knocked off” and he missed several times, would you be as willing to disparage him as you are her?
Watch the video again, you will note that Palin does in fact know how to work the “bolt”.
No argument from me…that ideally: Practicing with the actual weapon you intend to use is beneficial, BUT that is not always practical or even possible depending upon where you hunt and other circumstances.
I’m going to hazard a “guess” here and say that Palin (in the past few years) probably has had “limited” time to hone her shooting/skills. What with being a Wife, Mother, Governor, VP candidate, writing a book, being a spokesperson , etc, etc). Is it that unreasonable that she didn’t look like Craig Boddington on safari?
Again, she did know how it operates, as for “recoil”…it’s a reasonable question when she was being handed a rifle (the caliber of which she might not have known).
I got the sense the question was more rhetorical (and in jest) since she followed up that question with the tongue in cheek statement “he always says that”, indicating it was an ongoing joke between Daughter and Father.
Read a "little" between the lines, you'll get so much more out of life.
Not to mention the practical aspect of NOT getting a “scope cut” when shooting from prone. But NO……it couldn’t possibly any of those things, could it?
And are you suggesting that Palin did not know "I.D." she was hunting a Caribou? Please..........just another parting shot from you.
And with your current ability to assess the abilities of people you don’t really know, I expect “aborting the hunt” would be a welcome relief for both parties.
The thing that gets me about this video is the fact that all three persons on the hunt thought it was perfectly safe to take the shot of the animal on the ridge line. That shot is a definate "NO, NO" as far as Hunter Safety goes here in the state of Maine.