Posted on 03/03/2011 10:37:35 PM PST by george76
She's studying at a college in Florida, and like any typical American teenager she loves shopping and hanging out with her friends. But at weekends she is one of the deadliest shots in the brush.
Regis Giles, 19, is one of America's hottest hunters - and she's taking the big game world by storm.
She's killed buffalo, wild boar, deer and a bear in her hunting career, which began when she was aged just nine.
And she's already drawing parallels to Sarah Palin, America's most famous gun-toting wilderness-loving woman.
Miss Giles is a lifetime member of the NRA. She was hunting well before Mrs Palin took America by storm during the 2008 general election. But she is as staunch a promoter of American blood sport as the former Alaska governor is.
Diane Danielson of the NRA’s Women On Target programme explains that the ‘Palin effect’ has increased female membership 20 per cent, with the NRA teaching 10,000 new women a year to shoot, and making more girls want to take up hunting, like Regis.
‘Firearm manufacturers are gearing their products towards women. They’re scaling down stocks, and shortening trigger pull lengths for our shorter fingers,' Ms Danielson said.
I have friends who are anti-hunting,’ she said solemnly. ‘I don’t tend to argue with them, they’re just not well informed.
'Hunters like me actually help the wildlife. Taxes on our weapons and equipment go directly to state conservation programmes, and last year $294 million was raised by hunters.’
The meat from the giant bison Miss Giles is seen posing with is enough to feed a man for 18 months. She donated her kill to a local homeless shelter, where the meat fed the needy.
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very pretty lady too
I don’t care that she’s not accused of anything.
Beautiful mmmm... stock on that gun in the last pic, eh?
She’s very easy on the eyes. Don’t mind me, just a straight guy making a normal guy statement. Keep shootin, darlin.
“Beautiful mmmm... stock on that gun in the last pic, eh?”
Schnabel, Schnabel
LOL
Yowsa!
She can track me down anytime!;D
Nice rifle.
Yeh, you guys are losing your touch. No one posted, “Laz would hit it!”
LOL
I love that word. “Huntress”... Mmm.
“‘It’s [Bison meat] tender, sweet and tastes better than beef,’ she said, before pausing a second. ‘And it’s high in protein and low in fat, too.’”
Amen to that. Bison/buffalo meat is some mighty fine eating.
Absolutely love wild boar roasted on the spit, too. Reminds me a bit of how pork from the store used to taste, before commercial producers started breeding pigs so much leaner for the more health-conscious market.
There is hope for the newest generation. Thanks for posting.
That is a beautiful young lady.
BTTT
‘We were on a swamp buggy in Florida, hunting wild boar, and my elder sister, Hannah, had already bagged hers.’
Hannah Giles is her sister?
Yep. They kinda look alike.
Caption: "Hey, I'm happy."
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