I’m not a shooter myself. How many shots should it take to dispatch a pantomime moose?

Also. Somebody should start up a chain of supermarts in Alaska. It would save a lot of ammo.

I’ve lived in hunting states my entire life. How many shots you fire seems to be dependent on how quickly you can figure out which one of the rifles you brought has the straight barrel and the sight that’s NOT adjusted for over-the-horizon targets.

You mean the Kwitter’s minders assumed she was missing a sitting target as large as a Hummer because she barely knew how to hold the rifle and her dad had to reload for her, rather than because of faulty equipment. Shocking.

And thus dies Alaska’s only deaf Caribou.

Okay, I call bullshit: The Palin mythos is that she’s this moose-shootin’ mama, a mighty huntress from way back. Does that image comport with the spectacle recorded in this clip? She acted like a Hamptons haus frau dragged along on a male-bonding weekend! And we can safely assume the most egregious bits were edited out!

The quote from psychotic has-been Ted Nugent was a nice touch, though.

And thus dies Alaska’s only deaf Caribou.

FTW!

The Palin mythos is that she’s this moose-shootin’ mama, a mighty huntress from way back. Does that image comport with the spectacle recorded in this clip?

Yeah, but to be fair, in the previous setup highlighting her skeet shooting prowess, she blew the crap out of a bunch of gophers, so the freezer won’t be completely bare.

What better way to start December than watching rednecks blow away Rudolf the red-nosed rangifer tarandus.

That is some sad ass tenderfoot shit right there.  Fucking cheechako, as the old man would say.

Too bad Brush Clearing™ had been taken.

She acted like a Hamptons haus frau dragged along on a male-bonding weekend!

I was thinking Paris Hilton’s Guide To Moose Hunting

I used to hunt (vegetarian now) and among the people I knew that were serious hunters we pretty much had complete contempt for people like this. Lousy shots like these are the kind of people that sometimes wound an animal that wanders off to slowly die from infection, starvation or gradual blood loss.  People have told me stories of finding animals with missing jaws, dangling hind legs or gutshot that the shooter apparently couldn’t find after wounding it.

People have told me stories of finding animals with missing jaws, dangling hind legs or gutshot that the shooter apparently couldn’t find after wounding it.

Never been hunting, but aren’t you supposed to track the critter and finish it off?

Never been hunting, but aren’t you supposed to track the critter and finish it off?

Director: Annnnnd, CUT! PRINT IT!

Sarah: Finally. Tahd, where’s my call sheet?  Piper, get Mommy that present Uncle Rush sent me, willya?  My shoulder is killing me.

>>>Never been hunting, but aren’t you supposed to track the critter and finish it off?<<<
Yes. I should have said “run off” instead of wander off. Sometimes you can’t find them. Sometimes you don’t even know if you wounded them - there won’t always be blood on the ground that you can find and follow.  The point is that ethical hunting requires that the hunter be prepared to dispatch the animal as quickly as possible, which means no potshots from a long distance and no blazing away if you’re such a lousy shot you can’t bring it down reliably with the first one.

“We have to be able to bag an animal today.  This is it for us.”

Ummm, in what respect Sarah?  So you and Tahd and the kiddies don’t starve to death over the winter?  Or to protect your ratings?

But it explains why I got the impression last night* that crew on the other side of that ridge were shooing the sacrificial caribou into her sights so she could bag one for the cameras.  I think she even said (after posing for the camera with the dead animal) that they were donating it to a local family.  So much for the “we’ve only got 3 packages of moose left” baloney.

*Yes, I admit it, we watched some of it.  Like being fascinated by scorpions or something.

But it explains why I got the impression last night* that crew on the other side of that ridge were shooing the sacrificial caribou

Not the whole crew, just the Grip or the Production Assistant, because they’re expendable.

I hope Wikileaks gets its hands on the outtakes.

I hope Wikileaks gets its hands on the outtakes.

Yeah, no way she gets a perfect kill shot after three shots at the international space station.

MOOSE LADY’s party has spotted enemy CARIBOU!

MOOSE LADY attacks CARIBOU with RIFLE!
MOOSE LADY misses!
CARIBOU uses HUH WHAT WAS THAT?
CARIBOU wonders what the hell is going on.
DAD uses ADVICE!
MOOSE LADY gains accuracy!
MOOSE LADY attacks CARIBOU with RIFLE!
MOOSE LADY misses!
CARIBOU uses HEY IS THAT A CAMERA CREW DOWN THERE?
CARIBOU wonders if he should eat to gain mass to make this easier.
MOOSE LADY changes weapons!
CARIBOU uses HEY KAREN YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS CRAZY CHICK DOWN HERE!
CARIBOU fails to die.
DAD uses ADVICE!
MOOSE LADY is immune to that.
MOOSE LADY uses JAMES BOND OPENING SCENE SNIPER SCOPE!
It’s super effective!
CARIBOU takes 135 points of damage!
CARIBOU is defeated!
MOOSE LADY gains CARIBOU MEAT x2!
MOOSE LADY gains 4 XP!
MOOSE LADY loses several billion COOL POINTS!

Worst case of buck fever I ever saw. How many times did she miss? I lost count. Good thing she was wearing depends.

@Zandar:

LOL, oh boy, is it going to be awkward when a local TV camera catches more than it ought to at her Chocobo Pardoning Ceremony.

My guess is that poor animal was tethered to the ground, that there was a sharpshooter over the other side of the ridge doing the actual shooting, cause we never actually see the long range shot of Sarah shooting and animal going down.  Nice editing job there. Finally (ahem I am going to lose my shit here please forgive me) WHY DOES A FUCKING ANIMAL HAVE TO DIE TO GIVE SNOWBILLY SNOOKIE STREET CRED IN THE EYES OF HER FANATIC FOLLOWERS, WHY DOES AN ANIMAL HAVE TO DIE FOR THE SAKE OF A FUCKING TV SHOW CAUSE IF ANYONE OF YOU BELIEVES THAT THE DEAD ANIMAL IS GONNA END UP IN HER FREEZER YOU ARE AS FUCKING DELUSIONAL AS SHE IS. 

PS)  Did I mention that I really do not like watching an animal being killed for no reason whatsoever?

.She should stick to canned hunting , to match the canned moose stew in her crockpot.

Does it kick?

Dead giveaway that she’s about as familiar with rifles as I am with quantum physics. It’s a bolt-action deer rifle, probably a 30-06 - of COURSE it kicks. Unless she’s been taking down wolves with her trusty Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle, she would know this.

And thus dies Alaska’s only deaf Caribou.

God, that’s wonderful. But just as the deer in the woods I grew up in walk toward loud unpleasant noises,(“Gatta getta caribou, TAHD!”) so too do caribou such as this one here, know why?

Intellectual curiosity.

6 shots, god, what a piker!

Intellectual curiosity.

*SNERK*  Starred and hearted. /gawker

I’m the guy that wrote about ethical hunting above. I no longer hunt or even eat animals, but I used to.

I didn’t actually watch the entire animal death scene in the video, but apparently, from comments above it took 6 (SIX!!) shots before this unfortunate beast went down. Many people are wondering why it just stands there and continues to get shot at. There are many explanations, one of which is that sometimes the first shot strikes the animal and stuns it so that it doesn’t run off and just stands there while the bad shooter continues to blast away at it. Sometimes they are just confused and as other commenters point out, maybe there are people hazing it from the other side of the ridge so that it doesn’t know where to run.

If you want to see real animal killing pr0n you should probably look at some of the hunting TV programs on cable, where they at least have the decency to edit out all the missed shots and horribly injured animals and only show these nice clean shots that drop the animal right on the spot. It really is a sign of the total tone-deafness of ms palin that she would go on national TV with such an inept and cruel performance. It’s a repeat of the turkey slaughter video.

Two things:

1. Funniest headline this year
2. Zandar: in my senescence, I vaguely intuit that what you wrote is a reference to some video game. Is there a specific one?  Don’t answer until I stop laughing and catch my breath.

BONUS THIRD THING:

3. No way she runs for president after that.  That noble beast, that inept display, that chortling, high-fiving Dad…the base, all 28 of them, will applaud, but millions will, as one, go, “Oh, ick.”