February 02, 2018 03:43 PM UTC

Caption This Photo: Walker Stapleton Goes Plinkin'

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• by: Colorado Pols

As posted to Twitter yesterday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton taking some time off work “the campaign trail” to punch some smoky holes in some paper:

Unfortunately for the GOP’s newly-minted presumptive favorite in the governor’s race, a close examination of Stapleton’s performance against said offending paper targets, who by the way never did a thing to Walker Stapleton, deflates some of the chest-thumping manly bravado of the scene:

Nice grouping, Tex! And of course, being staged for the camera we have no way of knowing what sort of handicap Stapleton may have enjoyed on his way to losing the match–one yard for three? We’ll never know for sure, but for political efficacy Stapleton probably should have paid the other guy to swap targets.

He’s got the money. On the other hand,

America. pic.twitter.com/TeduJkwQF3

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) February 16, 2016

Another way to look at this is that when it comes to embarrassing one’s self with a gun, Walker Stapleton is just keeping up the family tradition.