Alaskans, particularly sportsmen and sportswomen: If you have not already made up your mind for a candidate to fill out Don Young’s term, please read this. In one episode of the “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” television program, she and her father went caribou hunting. Elements of the hunt were videorecorded and included in the episode. Among them were the wounding of a caribou, the revelation that it wasn’t her gun, and that she hadn’t shot, much less sighted in, the rifle before the hunt.
As I recall, she lightheartedly blamed her father for not sighting in the rifle properly. Back at camp, either she or her father — I can’t remember which — had difficulty hitting a paper plate at close range. If you have access to this episode, view it for yourself. As a hunter, I have made my share of mistakes in the field. Assuming someone else’s rifle was, in fact, sighted in was not one of them.
I find her careless manner in this and other matters unacceptable. If you care about the outdoors, animals and the way in which sportspersons are portrayed, I would suggest you vote for one of the other candidates.
— Ron Smith
Fairbanks
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