Hunters Trashing Palin as a Fake Hunter and Unsafe Shooter

[RamboLiberal]

Palin champions will hold up last night's "Sarah Palin's America" episode as proof of the candidate putting her money where her moose is. That is to say, after years of talking about being a hunter, Palin actually went out and shot something.

While much of the debate around the episode is an ethical one about a millionaire shooting a defenseless animal so as not to have to pay for meat, the real conversation should be about how the episode absolutely exposes Palin as a charade.

In this most recent episode, a woman who has blindly championed the NRA and legitimized her frontier-woman status by claiming to be a "lifelong hunter" comes across as anything but.

For starters, Palin and pa head out on a long hunt without bothering to sight in Palin's rifle, a mistake no serious hunter would ever make. Why Palin's dad chose for her a "varmint rifle" for a caribou hunt and why Palin, an admitted "moose hunter," would not question such a gun's appropriateness is never answered.

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On Palin's own Facebook page, a viewer wrote, "What a joke. I was a fan before the show. No one who is a true hunter lets others carry their rifle or can't load their own shells. Sarah, you are a phony in this area of your 'skills."

http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/sarah-palin-the-tv-star-exposes-sarah-palin-the-fake-hunter

Article also calls her & her dad unsafe.

From a female hunter.

1. Why can't she load her own gun? My guessing is she has no idea how to do it or doesn't want to break her nails in the process. Her dad doing it for her while standing and whispering really loudly is another problem. I think the first shot might have made the caribou deaf and made it so they could carry on the way they did.

2. Why did she ask if a rifle kicks? Rifles kick. You get bruises. I've hunted seriously for a couple years now and I know that. Hence a "lifelong" hunter should know that and show off the bruises given by such firearms. Also, bringing a vermin gun on a caribou hunt? That is a joke. No wonder it took 6 shots to kill the thing.

3. I have a problem with the shots she took. I'm not all about shooting while the animal is facing you. If you shoot and it runs forward, she could have been trampled (oh no!). Also, that is just a bad shot. Waiting till he's broadside (his entire side facing you) is the best and can kill quickly. This is just a personal thing, however.

4. GET YOUR FINGER OFF OF THE TRIGGER, PALIN. You never want to have your finger on the trigger of ANY gun unless you are about to shoot. I learned that in a New York State hunter safety course along with dozens of 8 year-old kids, so she should probably be aware.

http://huntlikeyourehungry.blogspot.com/2010/12/negative-hunter-representation.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Sarah Pale Horse is such a Compleat RepubliCON

Hypocrisy & Lies all the way...

Glad the hunters are seeing through her RepubliGrifter BS.

[hobbit709]

2. It's as real as anything else she does.

[TexasObserver]

3. Yes, she's even a fraud when it comes to hunting and shooting.

[XemaSab]

4. I went to the rifle range once, and I have never hunted.

Rifles kick. :P

[HopeHoops]

6. I fired a rifle twice and was screaming fucking accurate - but yeah, it bruised me.

I attribute the accuracy to many, many, many hours of video games.

[Le Taz Hot]

8. Raises Hand

But it was in the Mojave Desert and it was a 12-gauge, double barrel shotgun. I THOUGHT I was supposed to fire both barrels at once. At the time I think I weighed 98 lbs. We never actually measured how far backwards I flew but it was a ways. Dazed and confused doesn't even begin to cover it. I swear I felt like a cartoon character in a Roadrunner movie. I saw honest-to-god stars and I ended up with bruises in places I didn't know you could have bruises. Thus ended my one and only foray into the world of guns.

[polly7]

5. Rudolph was either deaf or stuffed.

5 shots and he just stood there patiently waiting ......... Bull*.

[Fumesucker]

7. " I think the first shot might have made the caribou deaf...

... and made it so they could carry on the way they did."

:rofl:

[sharesunited]

9. If John Wayne and Clint Eastwood can be firearms heroes, why not Palin?

Politics is largely show business anyway.