Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Sarah Palin havin' a little gun trouble

Probably was knock off at some point......however,

When growing up my father mother and three brothers always tried to sight in their own rife each year the weekend before the opener.....even if the rifles had been sighted in before and not used. Wanted to make sure everything was right before the season started. Some years life would intrude and some couldn't make it to the range for that pre-weekend shooting. When that happened my father or I would shoot their rifle a few rounds to check zero and correct any problems.....all except my second brother's.

Don't know if it was the way he held the rifle when shooting or the fact that he wore glasses thick as coke bottle bottoms (20/200 vision uncorrected), but for some reson no one else could sight in his rifle except him. If my father or I shot anyone else's rifle it would hit within 1/2" of where it did when they fired it at 100 yards. Maybe not "perfect" but close enough to know the sights were still OK.

When we fired my brother's rifle the bullets would hit some 4" low and 4" to the side....AT 25 YARDS!!! If he couldn't be there to shoot, we quickly learned to assume it was still sighted in and not make adjustments because if we DID adjust it....it damn sure would be off then (for him).

If Sarah was shooting someone else's rifle this could have played a part in the zero problems. I do like the idea that the show doesn't always appear "perfect" but also shows the problems that happen sometimes in real life.

I'd much rather see a few embarassing moments and "warts" than to try to believe that no one EVER makes a mistake in the field, and ALWAYS kills a record-book anumal. A lot of other outdoors shows could learn from watching this on in that respect.

She would have been well served with a straight 6x

She shot a smallish cow. That's an eatin' critter

I like how she downed it with one shot from the savage

She needs some practice with the other rifle though

If I had to guess, it'd be someone on the set messed with her scope with promises of wealth to make her look stupid.

When Chuck was getting his guns together for the hunt he said he took the "varmint rifle" for Sarah, it was the model 70 she missed with. Any idea what caliber she was shooting? There didn't seem to be any recoil when Sarah or Chuck shot the rifle.

nada to hang head over on shooting a rifle that's had it's scope knocked off zero.


only criticism I have of the gig, is she seemed a mite early to have finger inside of the trigger guard for my liking, specially having been told "safety's off, it's ready to go"


but in fairness, as much as I try and practice good gun handling techniques I'm sure if I was videoed during an entire hunt, I could catch myself doing something I don't aspire to.

I just watched it, and that was pretty cool. Her dad is still giving her a hand, even though she's grown. I'm sure that will tear the liberals up.

I bet the producers of that show knocked that messed with the scope to make it more dramatic.

That footage has in just a few minutes undergone more nit-picking here than the Zapruder film!

That's funny

kudos to TLC for not editing the kill

I hope every American watches this show
to make their mind up, one way or the other on Sarah.

Agreed. Her Pops took a pretty good tumble down a cut bank and appeared to land right on the rifle. When he righted himself he proceeded to use the rifle as a walking stick to descend the rest of the bank.

Of course it's possible that her Pop just assumed the gun was still zeroed when he pulled it from the gun cabinet and didn't fire it before hauling it North a thousand miles to hunt with it.

I tried shooting my grandsons deer rifle and shot 12 inches hi at 50 yds.

you can't sight in a rifle for anyone else to shoot and expect much. they must try it before going hunting.

In-laws drove in from Oklahoma and the kids came over to visit, we watched the show and all agreed that Sarah is about as down home, girl next door as one can get.....this show is helping her greatly.

And you KNOW she's driving the leftists mad!

i want her to have my baby !!

Not to mention a bunch here who aren't all that far to the Left.

Is there anyone who's neutral or moderate about Mrs Palin?

Had same this past Jan.... wife was on me for bad shooting, but after the 3rd shot I told her the rifle has to be about close to 10 inches left for some reason....

Shot it on target... 8 inches left.

Stuff happens.

Had it many years ago... gut shot a cull buck.... second shot, guts again while my wife is spotting... so third I hold OFF the deer the correct direction and dump him.... that was a SOB at our ranch guiding that was pissed off at me and moved my scope but I digress

Chuck Heath appears to be a quintessential hunter but not a rifle loony.

I wonder whether he handloads or knows all that much about rifles and what we here would consider the basic points of their care and feeding.

That makes three of us. Also why I mostly hunted close cover with open sights afterward.

I think anyone who's done any hunting with a scoped rifle has had this happen. In cases like this, I'm glad when it results in clean misses rather than dirty wounds!

Coulda been gut-shots. Wouldn't that have been fun?

In my experience, the majority of hunters are just that. They'll shoot a few rounds at the range (many at only one distance), and then proceed to kill more game than you can imagine.

Most don't know the difference (nor do they care)'bout feed-type. Bedded actions, free floated barrels, or trigger pull probably means nothing to 'em. Twist rates, and even bullet construction often get little attention either.

They spend their time chasing game, learning it's habbits, and areas. When they locate their quarry, they don't care if the rifle is short, or long action. Wood, or synthetic matters little. Factory ammunition is the norm (and many don't have a notion 'bout velocity, or bullet construction). What most hunters want, is a dead animal, and the only way to achieve that is to spend their time hunting - not on riflery.

Most of the folks I've hunted with fit the above description (at first glance, so do the folks in the video). I've not had the chance to hunt with a 'fire member (yet), but hunting with the average poster here would be a unique experience from my perspective - hunters, who are riflemen.