Beauty and the Bacon.
Posted on 03/03/2011 10:37:35 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Pretty cool overall but shooting a buffalo is akin to walking out in a pasture and shooting a Hereford cow.
Good article. I read it for the story! LOL
Those of us who were taught at a tender age to hunt for subsistence part company with Ms. Giles here. Unless you gut it, pack it out you are merely out for sport. I'm not impressed.
The article never mentions the caliber of that double rifle.
IN before Laz..... I think...
There was a great article in The American Hunter about one year ago about their trip to Alaska. Her father is a dead shot as well.
I agree with you. I've edited many hunting shows for Versus Network, and none of them were about the "elusive wild buffalo". The Colorado tv production company I worked for, tried to hide the fact that most of their 'spot and stalks' and birding shows were done on small, private reserves. It ensures a good tv trophy. Conversely, one guest celebrity guest told me he was often forced to take unethical shots - too far away - in order to get their kill. This young lady's phone will be ringing, very soon, guaranteed. That boar would have been nice to see on tv.
Yep, liked the Ruger 1
Bet it is a big bore caliber.
Shotguns aren't sized by caliber, but gauge.
Sometimes if you drop a buffalo with the first shot, they will charge at you.
Me, I hunt bacon cheeseburgers. Easy to find and already cooked.
.410 is a caliber not a gauge.
I’m not up on pop culture. Who’s the pimp-looking dude with her ?
Why is that?
Actually, in shotgun terminology it's referred to as the .410 bore.
‘I remember feeling exhilarated as the hog buckled and hit the floor. I reloaded, and placed three more rounds in him, making sure he was dead. It was such a rush!
She loves killing, not hunting. This is not the only quote where she makes that quite obvious. Disturbing article.
Funny thing about hunting, you have to kill them to eat them.
FWIW, double rifles don’t come cheap. During manufacture the barrels have to be aligned with a single set of sights between them during manufacture for a fixed point of aim at a designated range. It’s considered the neatest trick in gunsmithing.
A friend once left his double rifle assortment with me while he and his wife went on a jaunt to Europe. Those guns had a heft and quality like nothing else in the world and I have my own assortment of double barrel shotguns. No comparison.
Anyway, I hope that as time goes on young ladies like this one will become the rule and not the exception.
Beauty and the Bacon.
I had to laugh a little when I read the word “huntress”, but then I realized it was a UK article. I remember when I first heard the word “bank manageress” for the first time as a teen, but that was in Scotland. I rarely ever heard this south of the border in england. I have to wonder if this is their attempt to make the story “cute” ,because they’re so enraged by the fact she hunts with guns...
Calibre is a dimension (in this case diameter)measured by callipers (same word origin, but they were invented before the spelling got sorted)
Shotguns are not measured by callipers, but by a gauge (in the the case of a 12 gauge, the gauge is a round lead ball weighing one-twelvth of a pound)
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