Obama Claims to Aim at Skeet, but Some Wonder if He’s a Straight Shooter [SKEET PHOTO!]

NY TIMES ^ | 2/2/2013 | PETER BAKER

[varyouga]

In a photo released by the White House on Saturday, President Obama is shown skeet shooting at Camp David in August 2012.

[yldstrk]

pretty low

[P.O.E.]

And doesn’t seem to be moving the gun. Stationary skeet?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Some Wonder if He’s a Straight Shooter [SKEET PHOTO!]

A staged pic of The Gay Caballero in Chief.

[Iron Munro]

[yldstrk]

ridiculous

[Abundy]

using a malfunctioning teleprompter as a target?

[Cowboy Bob]

Shouldn’t he be holding it sideways, Gangsta style?

[The Cajun]

Stock seems to be a tad high on the shoulder, just saying.

[hummingbird]

"pretty low"

My immediate and exact thought...Maybe when you "do skeet" shooting, there are different rules./sarc

What a menacing dope.

[darkwing104]

Low flying skeet's or shooting paper targets of his enemies.

To paraphrase Mr. Rogers...Can you say "photoshop", I knew you could.

[headstamp 2]

That is not a skeet shooting stance.

This is a photo op from the liar in chief.

Put this one with the pictures of the plywood Iranian fighter jet.

[yldstrk]

he thinks he can pull the wool over everybody’s eyes. If he had ever tried even one single case in even the teeniest most inconsequential courtroom, he would be a whole lot more aware of how hard it is to get people to believe a lie.

[bamagirl1944]

I thought skeet were launched up in the air. He seems to be shooting at a target level with him.

[yldstrk]

besides, those dumb earmuffs he has on would fall off if he tilted his head back

[goodnesswins]

I asked my husband about that....he says, NO, he really could be shooting skeet....

[varmintman]

Not likely to hurt himself that way with target ammo and ported barrels but it would be fun watching him shoot a hunting gun with even 3” magnum shells in it that way...

[hummingbird]

"....at a time when he is pushing Congress to enact sweeping restrictions on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines."

He would do well to drop this and spend more time turning out crazy Muslims who shoot 14 people at a military base.

He would do well to route out Muslims in the military and White House until there is deep scrutiny.

The Islamists have made no hiding that we are the Great Satan that must be vanquished.

[glennaro]

Gee, you would think the little tyrant's synchophants would have found an experienced skeet shooter to ensure the staged photo was accurate in all respects (or perhaps they couldn't find a skeet shooter who wants anything to do with the little tyrant...)

[varmintman]

I asked my husband about that....he says, NO, he really could be shooting skeet....

He might be shooting AT skeets that way but he'd never hit anything.

[frankenMonkey]

...the rest of the story

[rabidralph]

I was wondering about that. I don’t shoot skeet but I always thought it was those clays flying high in the air, so he should be aiming much higher than what is shown. Which looks like regular target practice.

[Rebel_Ace]

How convincing.
What if I said, “I go camping all the time. Here is A picture.”
Or
“I go fishing all the time. Here is A picture.”
Or
“I go bowling all the time. Here is A picture.”

What does all the time is GOLFING. There are countless pictures available of that

[Starboard]

“shooting paper targets of his enemies”
**********
LOL. Good post.

[TomGuy]

My reaction too.

The gun is parallel to the ground. Unless those skeets are about 6’ or less in height, he ain’t gonna shoot many of them.

[Usually, one would see the gun aimed up in the air, as that is were those varments fly.]

[[Anyone who believes that that photo was not staged for political propaganda purposes could probably be receptive to buying ocean-front property in Lincoln, Nebraska.]]

[IbJensen]

Boy it’s a good thing someone didn’t accidentally drop a shell of a lesser caliber in there before our fearless leader loaded his piece and pulled the trigger.

In a cartoon setting he’d look like Buckwheat, but in a natural setting he’d be hard to look at.

[Mike Darancette]

He’s not good enough to hit an outgoing clay.

[JPG]

"Can I git me ah huntin' license heah?"

- B. H. Obama

[reagandemocrat]

LOL.

The NRA is inside Obama’s OODA loop.

[IbJensen]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2984570/posts

[TomGuy]

You can't do that!!!!!

The White House also warns all you mischievous internet types to not mess around with the picture:

"This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

from this FR thread: Don't 'Shop me Bro - White House Warns: Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic

[layman]

Actual skeet shooters carry a supply of shells ... in their jacket pocket or in a pocket around their waist. Pretend skeet shooters don’t need additional ammo because they will only be taking one shot for the camera.

[Stormdog]

Uh oh. You done it now. There’s gonna be a knock at your door and your computer’s going to be confiscated. The regime has declared that mucking with the photo isn’t protected by the 1st amendment.

[navysealdad]

[Bull Man]

Something seems wrong about the way he is holding this rife. Doesn't it seem to be too high against his shoulder? The recoil from a shot would be absorbed into the top of the shoulder bone rather than the meat of the pectoral muscle. Just doesn't look like someone that is a shooter. IJS'in...

[lowbridge]

Drifting To The Left:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk47saogI8o

[The Great RJ]

This is a staged photo. He is no more shooting skeet in that photo than he is playing tennis. Look at the tension in his arm muscles...is this the stance of someone accustomed to shooting a gun?

[P-Marlowe]

Stock seems to be a tad high on the shoulder, just saying.

That was my first thought as well. Fire off three or four rounds with the stock in that position and I supsect you will not be using that shoulder for the rest of the week.

Also did you notice that he is firing almost parallel to the ground? Aren't skeet tossed into the air? Whatever he is shooting is no more than about 10 feet off the ground.

Also shouldn't a skinny guy like Obama be wearing a shoulder pad? He's just wearing a polo shirt.

[Venturer]

The Picture was probably taken the day before it was used.

[The Louiswu]

It’s not Obama.

[hans56]

I need to remind you that alterations of the released picture will not be tolerated in any way (sarc)

More Please

[Georgia Girl 2]

Looks like that skeet is hovering midair for him. I wish I could get a sporting clay to do that. :-)

[reagandemocrat]

Nice!

Can you make the gas comes out his back-side?

[meyer]

He’s trying to shoot the clay before it leaves the launcher. Much easier to hit before they start flying!

Side note - does his gun have a pressure relief valve on the side of the barrel?

[KC_Lion]

[Venturer]

If you don’t hit them on the way up you can try to hit them on the way down. However it doesn’t work well that way, Best to hit them on the way upor at their peak of rise.

[raybbr]

“Something seems wrong about the way he is holding this rife. Doesn’t it seem to be too high against his shoulder? The recoil from a shot would be absorbed into the top of the shoulder bone rather than the meat of the pectoral muscle. Just doesn’t look like someone that is a shooter.”

Exactly what I thought. The more I look at it the more I think he’s shooting a low load blank. Virtually no recoil evident in the way he’s holding the gun. Any real load would have knocked the gun out of his delicate hands.

[9YearLurker]

Didn’t someone report having seen him show up nervously for some skeet event there, suffer through a nervous five minutes of it, and leave?

[Fresh Wind]

[gwgn02]

Someone can grab the metadata from the photo and pull a date when this was taken?