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July 27, 2004
Shades of Elmer
Our Gov has been doing a little campaigning for the Prez lately....telling a state sportsmans group that Kerry didn't really hunt and fish like us good ol' boys do. I more or less blew that off as just politics, but it appears the Gov was right. (Thanks, Charles!)
[Kerry] 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.”
Well, now we know who his hunting role model is.
Posted by Rita at July 27, 2004 08:03 AM
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Don't think I'd much care for venison full of metal pellets. Good lord. I'm not a hunter, and I know better than to hunt deer with a SHOTGUN, fer cryin' out loud.
If you're going to lie, at least be accurate about your lies.
Posted by: Keith at July 27, 2004 12:05 PM
It's not so much the shotgun part---if you're hunting where there's heavy brush, a shotgun is better than a rifle....though I'd say a double-barrel shotgun is normally more used in skeet shooting than deer hunting.
No deer hunter routinely crawls on his belly....unless he thinks he's Rambo or something. That's like saying "I love to run Cat-5 cable. I love going out with my trusty pocket knife, stripping down to my underwear and standing on my head...."
Sure you could think of a situation in which that might be appropriate, but most of us in the real world don't do it that way.
Know what I mean?
Posted by: rita at July 27, 2004 02:03 PM
Yeah, that struck me as odd, too. I don't think ole Senator Kerry will ever learn to quit lieing to us like we're idiots.
Posted by: yayaempress at July 27, 2004 02:27 PM
Granted, I thought the belly crawling was ludicrous too. But the shotgun thing just struck me as completely asinine.
But then I grew up in South Dakota, where heavy brush is not particularly common.
Posted by: Keith at July 27, 2004 04:06 PM
Yah, you'd definitely want a rifle out where you're from. I hunt with a Remington 870 Express 12 gauge pump. It's touted as a 'woman's' gun because it's so lightweight....which means when I load it with 000 buckshot, it kicks like a Missouri mule.
Posted by: rita at July 27, 2004 05:01 PM
Bwahahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the funniest thing I've read all day. What an idiot.
Posted by: Tam at July 28, 2004 04:00 PM
Out in the west deer hunting is done with a rifle. I have cousins who live in eastern states who hunt deer with shotguns loaded with slugs, as the state law demands. When I first heard this shotgun stuff for deer hunting I went "Huh" also.
Not an excuse for Kerry as I can't stand the man, just for info.
Posted by: azygos at July 28, 2004 09:40 PM
The crawling on his belly thing is stupid, but the shotgun thing isn't completely asinine. Where I'm from originally (Illinois) you can only use a shotgun and deer slugs for hunting. But, no one crawls around.
Posted by: Bob at July 29, 2004 07:15 AM
The only time I've ever crawled on my belly deer hunting was when I had to go under a barbed wire fence. ; )
We can use either buckshot or slugs in shotguns here....except in a .410. Those you have to use slugs in to deer hunt.
Mebbe they do things differently out East, but I doubt it.
Posted by: rita at July 29, 2004 07:21 AM