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.
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Substantial amounts of meat are given to charity by hunters every year. It is an extremely old and honorable tradition.
Yep.
I'm with you 100%.
Taking a life just for sport is abhorrent to me.
Miss Giles can have a big effect on our young hunters which is sorely needed. Our hunting ranks are thinning out due to the lack of interest by younger people and we need to do something about it. Hopefully she can bring the younger set into the sport, as well as more women.
She is a huge asset to us.
What is it?
Which, when the author *compares* the gal to Palin is complete BS... as far as I saw, Palin is a subsistence hunter [uses the game to fill her freezer to live on]not hunting for bragging rights [or it is a source of income] and trophy...or to *break into* the good-ole-boys-club by out-trophying them.
As I said up thread not unlike the 8 y/o girl suiting up to join the peewee football team in town.
Went back to look at the pic again and can see you are right.
It is a double barreled rifle. Was not aware there was such a thing.
It must be a modified shotgun action.
The taper on the barrel from breech to sight makes it obvious that it is a rifle.
Sorry, I did not notice.
Damn! That last pic is Hawt!
Long hair and a long gun. Killer combination.
Indeed, along with rhinoceros, elephants, and hippopotamus. Probably lions too, from what I've read. Most African big game hunting doesn't seem much more than driving the Land Rover up to the animal in question and bagging it with barely any need to exit the vehicle.
Now, mountain goat and Bighorn sheep hunting, from what I've read and heard that's sporting, exhausting, and risky.
Actually they're quite different internally than shotguns. The pressure differences are quite remarkable. A modified shotgun would be extremely dangerous.
They're quite pricey, starting at several thousand dollars. Holland and Holland is one manufacturer. Google them up and you'll find they're incredibly pieces of work.
I just spoke with Doug Giles and the rifle used on the hog was “Italian Famars 9.3x74r double rifle”.
A nice piece.
She does herself no favors when she says she gets "a rush" from watching an animal die.
” Yes, my huntress”
“ Any thing for you my HUNTRESS”!
hot hottie hotness.
...laz would hit what ??? the bison, the boar...???
i read that and had ta ping ya... 8^}
Geezus!
Lucky Bastuhd!
"Is she free Saturday night?", asks Michael Vick.
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