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Opinion: Hillary Clinton shot a duck once

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In an amazing coincidence just days before another crucial Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Wisconsin -- where thousands build their annual vacations around deer-hunting season -- has let it slip that she went hunting once.

‘I know you don’t believe it,’ she told an enthusiastic audience at Kenosha’s Brat Stop over the weekend, ‘but it’s actually true. My father taught me to shoot 100 years ago.’

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According to The Times’ Nicholas Riccardi, who was there, she then launched into an explanation of how school shootings can be stopped without infringing on gun owners’ rights. She declined to elaborate on her hunting career later except to say that she had nailed a duck.

But anyway here’s a photo of another Clinton holding a dead duck like the one his wife recalls shooting down.

But then today, on the eve of voting in the Badger State, the New York senator remembered more details about hunting once in Arkansas with male colleagues and standing in chilly water early one morning.

‘They said, ‘We won’t shoot. You shoot,’ ‘ Clinton told reporters. ‘They wanted to embarrass me. So, OK, the pressure was on. So I shot, and I shot a banded duck. And I was as surprised as they were.’

Not to mention how the unarmed duck felt.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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