The new winner: Jan. 18, 2013

The winner:

"The only thing that stops a hunter with an AR-15 is a deer with an AR-15."

-- Olin Sansbury of Tryon, N.C.

The runners-up:

"It's so much safer now in the forest."

-- Ross Levin, Charlotte

"It's not an assault weapon if you're the one being assaulted."

-- Mic Elvenstar, Charlotte

"Banning these could save a million bucks!"

-- Carolyn Hudson, Columbia, S.C.

"Nobody did a background check."

-- David W. White, Charlotte

"In D.C., whoever has the most bucks wins."

-- Bill McGloughlin, Charlotte

"A lot of bucks are used to stop gun control."

-- Bill Russo, South Plainfield, N.J.

"The Second Amendment is dear to me."

-- From several readers

"Gun control? I'm game!"

-- From several readers

Feel free to join a discussion about the winners, add more captions of your own, or let us know your favorites by clicking the 'Comments' link below.  Please join us again Monday, Jan. 21, for a new cartoon caption challenge. -- Kevin Siers

Comments

[Cat]

hmmmmm, really?

[Gary Ellison]

"Nice rack! Funny, heh!? Well, this buck stops it here."

[Steve]

I'm with you Cat; I think the clear winner is from David W. White.

[Steve-O]

Ah, come on!

My entry, "Have you seen Ted Nugent?" didn't even get an honorable mention.

[Carolyn]

I loved Ross's and David's entries. Congrats to all.

[suzanne & co.]

Congrats to all the winners, very clever one Carolyn..David's was a fav and Bill may be surprised but I liked his as well....

[bill]

well, that's good then. suzanne liked my joke today and my pizza joke from a few months ago

[Phil Clutts]

Not to take anything away from the winners, but here are a few submissions I liked:
"This? Oh, it's just something I bought off the rack."
"To be honest, I'm getting out of my rut."
"And I want a ban on bows and arrows too."
"Show me the doe."
Of course, it's hard to be objective about one's own entries.

[Carolyn]

Thanks, Suzanne!

[bill]

around the same time, 2 of my thanksgiving jokes were used, and suzanne selected one of them as her favorite. so i have to thank her thrice

[Cat]

Phil...priceless especially getting out my rut...LOL! Mine didn't place either but it made me chuckle "My President is Charlton Heston"..I'm thinking Kevin is just not old enough to appreciate!

[Steve-Arrr]

WTB!

[Gary Ellison]

"Keep it up....I'm gonna doe-slap ya!"

[Gary Ellison]

"About those Deer Crossing signs in high traffic areas."

[Gary Ellison]

Phil Clutts, your "out my...rut" and "show...doe" Very Good! As I recall, you show well regularly.

[Phil Clutts]

Thanks, Gary (and Cat). I don't rank with the heavy hitters, but get published often enough to keep up the effort and to feel inadequate or unjustly wounded when I hit a dry spell (artistic temperament, you know):<). Kevin has a LOT of entries to look at and will never "get it right" to everybody's satisfaction, since we all have a different sense of humor.
Steve-Arrr, I was a little thrown by "WTB!", especially when I looked it up and found "Want To Buy." Dug a little deeper and found "What the buck." WTG!

[Ross Levin]

I'll take the silver and thanks for the props but I was hoping for two in a row. No bother, congrats to to Olin for winning but as I wrote in one of my entries
"I'LL BE BUCK"

[suzanne & co.]

Loved this weeks comments almost more than the winners!

[Charles Randall]

I was thinking along the same line as David. One of my entries was "I got it at a gun show with a rabbit ID" Congrats to the winners.

[TOM HAINES]

OK, OK, noooooooo moooooooore puns...well, until maybe next week. Good stuff guys.