Hot shot: Meet Regis, 19-year-old big game huntress who's America's deadliest teen

Daily Mail ^ | 3rd March 2011 | Jeff Maysh

[george76]

She's studying at a college in Florida, and like any typical American teenager she loves shopping and hanging out with her friends. But at weekends she is one of the deadliest shots in the brush.

Regis Giles, 19, is one of America's hottest hunters - and she's taking the big game world by storm.

She's killed buffalo, wild boar, deer and a bear in her hunting career, which began when she was aged just nine.

And she's already drawing parallels to Sarah Palin, America's most famous gun-toting wilderness-loving woman.

Miss Giles is a lifetime member of the NRA. She was hunting well before Mrs Palin took America by storm during the 2008 general election. But she is as staunch a promoter of American blood sport as the former Alaska governor is.

Diane Danielson of the NRA’s Women On Target programme explains that the ‘Palin effect’ has increased female membership 20 per cent, with the NRA teaching 10,000 new women a year to shoot, and making more girls want to take up hunting, like Regis.

‘Firearm manufacturers are gearing their products towards women. They’re scaling down stocks, and shortening trigger pull lengths for our shorter fingers,' Ms Danielson said.

I have friends who are anti-hunting,’ she said solemnly. ‘I don’t tend to argue with them, they’re just not well informed.

'Hunters like me actually help the wildlife. Taxes on our weapons and equipment go directly to state conservation programmes, and last year $294 million was raised by hunters.’

The meat from the giant bison Miss Giles is seen posing with is enough to feed a man for 18 months. She donated her kill to a local homeless shelter, where the meat fed the needy.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Doug, Hannah and Regis. Some families seem destined for remarkability.

[JusPasenThru]

Now, mountain goat and Bighorn sheep hunting, from what I've read and heard that's sporting, exhausting, and risky.

Rabbits. Rabbits are the worst. They'll even swim out to your boat and try to crawl in and kill you if they get the chance. Just ask Jimmy Carter. He had to fight for his life and brain one with an oar.

[NFHale]

SOmehwere, an effeminate, emasculated liberal girleyman is quaking in his little pink underwear at the thought of a Nineteen year old girl who hunts.

And elsewhere, liberal lunatic feminazis are shaking with rage...”We LOST another ONE!”

[waterhill]

+1 ( means I whoeheartedly agree with you )...

[waterhill]

wholeheartedly that is , oops...

[Smokin' Joe]

I think it is what happens when daddy has money and the kids don't get spanked. They finally crossed the line, and it cost the whole family. No one even came close to comparing what was considered a downright heinous act to hunting, nor the perps to hunters, simply because a lot of the people here hunt or have hunted at some time in their life.

It was a blatant act of cruelty, and whether it was perpetrated with callous disregard for the animals or worse, with the intent to inflict pain upon them, I don't know. That issue is moot to me, really, the results were bad enough.

Local folks who might have done business with the family afterwards had the punishment seemed severe enough (despite it being pretty close to the legal maximum), just didn't do business with them, and they ended up selling out and moving on.

[M Kehoe]

If I was 40 years younger and not married...never mind...

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