https://www.outdoorlife.com/hu...cunningham-super-10/


Article with numerous photos of her hunts.

Wow

When I was that age my family could hardly afford a box of 22's for me.

know what you mean i was ij heaven when i had a box of sh0rs- whats left for thhe girl drugs

That her parents are funding her in a competitive endeavor just makes this seem wrong.

I get she likes to hunt, and enjoys it, which is great, but “super slams” and doing so as the youngest is her parents buying awards, not her hunting because she enjoys it.

I’d be more impressed if she was hunting on her own on her Dad’s ranch every week of the season than that she has an award at the youngest age.

It’s how you literally make entitled person in young age
Let’s hope she will not be affected by all this when she becomes adult

To me, it minimizes the accomplishment because I see a big check mommy and daddy wrote to do it. Like was said, I hope it doesn't warp her mind about what true accomplishment is. It's also amazing the lengths parent(s) will go to.

Good for her. She must have wealthy parents that love hunting. No need to put a negative spin on everything. Sounds like some of you would prefer she emulate idiot influencers with her face glued to a phone 24 hours a day.

A lot of people whining about what other people spend their money on. I find that hypercritical.

I happy for her, and I am happy her family.

I hope she kills the Bog Five next or a Grand Slam of Sheep.

None of these animals come so writing some check. No one is a resident for everything and the tag draws are by and large a decade plus.

You cannot kill x hunting where there is no x
Complaining about this is no different than complying she is entitled by hunting on her dad’s ranch.

Not sure I care who writes the check.

James Mellon of Africa Hunting book fame used his families money to hunt everything everywhere. He never worked a day in his life, yet we revere him.

I see no issue.

I think most of us just look at it as adult, kids get spoiled and that can carry with them all their lives
I look at all the states youth seasons…bullshit and how to spoil and cater to kids when they did not earn it
Again just my personal opinion

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Originally posted by crbutler:
That her parents are funding her in a competitive endeavor just makes this seem wrong.

I get she likes to hunt, and enjoys it, which is great, but “super slams” and doing so as the youngest is her parents buying awards, not her hunting because she enjoys it.

I’d be more impressed if she was hunting on her own on her Dad’s ranch every week of the season than that she has an award at the youngest age.

Absolutely Spot On!

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Originally posted by dogcat:
Not sure I care who writes the check.

James Mellon of Africa Hunting book fame used his families money to hunt everything everywhere. He never worked a day in his life, yet we revere him.

I see no issue.

Actually, Ross, Jay Mellon made the choices as an adult what he was going to do with his trust money. This young girl is simply one example of thousands of screwed up sports parents who live vicariously through the accomplishments their kids achieve in endeavors the parents direct them into in order to feel glory themselves.

Big difference in why Jay Mellon did what he did and what these parents are doing with their daughter.

Congratulations to her for accomplishing her Super 10, and to her father for getting her interested in her hunting and for paying for it.

I hope that she can continue it on her own as she gets older.

I say good for her, but I see the other argument too. I'd like to say that if I was richer than six feet up a bull's ass I would still make my kids "earn" their trophies, but that's likely BS. I'd buy the same hunts this dude did just so I could see the happiness on their faces and be a part of something special with my kids. All three of mine are older than this young lady, but I still spend lots of my time and money to make sure they get to hunt as much as they can. If I had more money, I'd spend it hunting more and bigger critters in farther off places with my kids.

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Originally posted by DLS:

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Originally posted by dogcat:
Not sure I care who writes the check.

James Mellon of Africa Hunting book fame used his families money to hunt everything everywhere. He never worked a day in his life, yet we revere him.

I see no issue.

Actually, Ross, Jay Mellon made the choices as an adult what he was going to do with his trust money. This young girl is simply one example of thousands of screwed up sports parents who live vicariously through the accomplishments their kids achieve in endeavors the parents direct them into in order to feel glory themselves.

Big difference in why Jay Mellon did what he did and what these parents are doing with their daughter.

Do you know more about her parents than the rest of us do? If not, that's one of the more pathetic accusations I've read here. You must be an awful person.

A lot of so called self identified conservatives complaining how other people spend the money their money.

It all sounds like jealousy to my ears.

So a trust fund adult who did not warm the funds is “good” but the teenage child enjoying hunting w her family as they wish is bad.

Foolishness.

Earn her trophies? Tell me any, how did she not earn her “trophies.” She got up. She climbed those mountains. She went through the cold. She leaned to accept discomfort for satisfaction. She had to not blow the stalk, and make the good shot. She defeated the animals senses. She “earned” these experiences (note I do not use the word trophy) on the hunting field. She experienced every “depredation” any of us did.

If her parents did not want her to have these experiences, that is their prerogative. I’m glad they had these moments together. My own father (adopted at that) was dead when I turned 17. Glad for her and them to live this life.

What I would give to have had a day w him in Alaska. Europe, Pheasant in Kanas, or an Elk hunt in WY.