Posted on 07/28/2004 9:21:35 AM PDT by kattracks
Doh! A deer!
Apparently hoping to outdo Hillary Clinton's improbable attempt to reinvent herself as a duck hunter, John Kerry has tried to avoid alienating supporters of gun rights by depicting himself as a deer hunter. Mark Steyn will have none of it.Steyn wrote in the London Telegraph yesterday:
"He was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. 'I'd have to say deer,' said the senator. 'I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach ... That's hunting.'
"This caused huge hilarity among my New Hampshire neighbours. None of us has ever heard of anybody deer hunting by crawling around on his stomach, even in Massachusetts. The trick is to blend in with the woods and, given that John Kerry already looks like a forlorn tree in late fall, it's hard to see why he'd give up his natural advantage in order to hunt horizontally.
Oh, Pooh
"Possibly his weird Vietnam nostalgia is getting out of control. Still, if I come across a guy in the woods in deer season inching through the undergrowth with a mouthful of bear scat, at least I'll know who it is," Steyn noted.
Considering that these days Kerry looks more like a bunny wabbit than Elmer Fudd, perhaps he could use a refresher course from Gun Owners of America, which, by the way, he still hasn't met with, despite his phony claim that he'd meet with any critical group.
Yeah, I knew I'd get called on that as soon as I hit 'send.' You gentlemen are correct.
No think of him crawling around wearing his 'bunny suit'.
I'll bet he also yelled "Pull" and waited for the deer to go sailing through the air.
figures he would have some overpriced toy that he doesn't even know how to use.
Double barrel's are for boids, not deer.
That's also what 0/0 buckshot was invented for. Very useful in heavy brush country, where long shots were not possible.
I am a hunter and grew up using a shotgun on 'shotgun only' reservations.
May as well. He's prolly already bagged his limit of wealthy dears.
Answer: He wasn't deer hunting. He was dear hunting. Hence, his natural position around dear Ms. Heinz.
The biggest problem with shot is the shooter not understanding it's range.
At close range the "stopping" power of buckshot is very good.
Crawling around on your belly here in Washington State in the poring down rain in October would be just about the stupidest thing I could think of. And a double barrel shotgun? Yes, a few do use them according to hunting magazines I've read, but I don't remember running into someone who did in all my years of hunting.
They do look good in photo-ops though. I can picture Kerry standing over a whitetail buck in his soiless Neiman Marcus hunting outfit. The buck his butler shot the night before using a .22 and a spotlight.
I wish it was since, as Kerry was in the navy, he would have drowned himself and made the world a better place...
I grew up in Southern Michigan and although I never deer hunted that is what I remember. I learned a few years ago from a friend that tree stands are used because deer have no natural enemies from above and tend not to look up. The crawling around on the ground would seem to be where the deer are most aware - snakes and all.
The story about Kerry and deer hunting will mean (does mean) absolutely NOTHING to the supporters of Kerry. Bunny suit, deer hunting, etc. They love him, they want him, he's their guy. Can't wait until the Convention is over. So depressing.
Is this how he hunted the VC in Nam ?
Oh yea! there was that movie THE DEER HUNTER! It had a Vietnam connection. Troubled vets if I remember right. Things like this make you go Hmmmmm
Colonel Flagg-Kerry.
NJ is shotgun. NY is either.
Dang, guess this born hoosier been away too long from Indiana..Shotguns only,huh?
"'I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach ... That's hunting.'"
Maybe he's saying that he uses a shotgun so that he doesn't have egg all over his face if he ever gets the chance to ban our hunting rifles.
Just a thought.
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