C'mon, I need some reassurance.
This guy can't possibly become our next President.
Unthinkable. Really.
What is this, the Sergeant Carlos Hathcock school of deer hunting? Is he infiltrating deep into enemy white-tail territory?
Isn't his hunting experience limited to beating the brush for rich widows?
Will wonders never cease?
Just what in the world kind of hunting requires one to crawl around on the ground with a double barreled shotgun?
Carolyn
Definitely bogus. I'm not a hunter, but using a shotgun doesn't make good sense, nor does crawling around on your belly.
Deer have some of the best ears around.Their nose comes first though.They can smell you from a quarter mile away,easy.in my deer hunting days,I knew that I needed to be above the deer,as scent travels upwards,and I damned sure need to make as little noise as possible.Somehow,crawling on my belly with all those leaves under me crunching never crossed my mind as a succesful tactic.
?????12-gauge double-barrel shot-gun for deer?????
I met a guy, went shooting with him, who hunted deer with a .410 shotgun, shooting slugs. He lived in the woods in east Texas, the woods are thick enough that if you're close enough to see him, you're close enough to hit him with your shoe. And a .410 slug is actually a pretty healthy chunk of lead.
For a guy living out in the woods without much cash, a .410 has the advantage of being very inexpensive, mainly a single-shot like his. Went target shooting with his .410 and I was surprised out how straight it shot. That slug makes a very satisfying 'thwack' when it hits the target too.
Is this how he hunted the VC in Nam ?
We need to set O'Reilly straight... last night he was talking to Ben Aflac! and O'Reilly said Kerry was pro-gun.
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IIRC, Kerry's double barrel is a Parker side-by-side valued at over $10,000. With full or even modified chokes, a 12 guage slug would turn it into metal spaghetti.
He must write himself up and issue himself another Purple Heart every time he skins a knee or scraps a knuckle; nothing serious, just enough to get himself another PH.
Caught-in-yet-another-lie-but-Clinton-and-Algore-proved-that-doesn't-matter ping.
My neighbor and I were just laughing about this. He suggested that someone ask Kerry if he's ever done any coon hunting.
I'm quite sure he would tell us of his days sitting in a "coon blind" waiting for a racoon to wander by.
I'll bet he also yelled "Pull" and waited for the deer to go sailing through the air.
May as well. He's prolly already bagged his limit of wealthy dears.
"'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.
Well, the shotgun part isn't ludicrous, at least. Back where I grew up in Virginia, there were different parts of the deer season for bows, blackpowder muzzleloaders, shotguns, and rifles. Rifle season came in last, just before Thanksgiving. (I've never been much of a hunter myself, but had a lot of friends who were, and my brother's a champion blackpowder shooter and loves to hunt deer with his muzzleloaders.) When you hunted, with what, depended on what county you were in...the rules and regs were, and I assume still are, insanely complex.
As for the crawling-around part...chhyeah, right. Where I grew up near the mountains, people mostly stand-hunted on National Forest or private land. Eastward toward the Tidewater, where there was less public-access land, there were "hunt clubs" that owned several hundred acres, and they'd primarily do deer drives with dogs. (Drives seem to be the primary way people hunt down here in central SC, too.)
Deer season was practically a third November holiday where I grew up (Veterans Day, first day of rifle season, Thanksgiving)--you could get an excused absence for it from high school, with a parental note--and I never heard of ANYBODY crawling on their stomach to hunt deer. Not once. Deer are way too crafty and way too skittish.
Obviously, JF'inK thinks he remembers Charlie in the Mekong wearing antlers.
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