Mission Accomplished!

At the beginning of the year, I set some goals (New years resolutions). First, was running five marathons. Second, was obtaining my hunter's safety in hopes of shooting my first deer. Well, I obtained my hunter's safety the week after my 5th marathon and on the last day of of December I shot my deer. My family gets deprivation tags every year for their property since they graze out of our orchards and/or crops all year. This year, I had a tag with my name on it. I'll admit that Jake and Greg wouldn't take a shot at a deer until I got mine. But anyhow I did it. Now I will have food for my family. I kind of like hunting and think that Jake needs to give me his 243 and he can go get another one.

Labor Day Fun

We had such a great day today. We met up with some friends and spent a couple of hours shooting targets and such in the morning and had a really fun time.

Jensen got to try out my 22, which I named "Oh Henry". He still likes Jared's gun better and shoots open site quite well.

Greg liked shooting every gun up there we had. Of course he did well on the clay pigeon contest as well.

In the afternoon, Teep and Grayce came up and we went dove hunting. Greg shot a dove and it landed in the canal. Cute Lilly got it out and brought it to Teep.

This is our little band of intrepid hunters and their dogs after the dove hunt.

Trigger Happy

I finally had some time to download some pictures to my computer. These were taken back in November. Sometimes we get a little trigger happy and just have to go shoot something for target practice. This day we were shooting our pumpkins left over from Halloween. Everyone stand back because Chalisse and Jensen have a gun!

Sometimes we get trigger happy and actually shoot something. This was taken opening day of the pheasant hunt.

Thanksgiving = Food, Fun, Family

For years during Thanksgiving time I like to reflect back on the blessings throughout the year. I am thankful for my family, for the food we are blessed with, and all the fun times we share together.
This year for Thanksgiving we wrapped up the food, family, and fun into one and went pheasant hunting. Actually I wanted to go with my brothers to share in their excitement and to put in a good couple of miles of walking. Jake made all the arrangements at a private club and for the first time I shot my first pheasant.
Here we are getting ready and loading our pockets with bullets.
Bella was a good dog and even swam out into the river to get the hen that was shot down.
Wow! Cherilee actually hit a pheasant. That deserves a hi-5.
This is the rooster I shot.
Here we are flushing the pheasants out.
This is Teep trying to find the pheasant he just shot down.
And he found it.
Josh is bound and determined to get every last pheasant.
Grayce got a couple of nice pheasants.
Kaleena flushing out the pheasants.
Jensen wasn't to sure about putting the pheasants in the back of his jacket.
Teep and Greg searching for pheasants.
This is our little band of intrepid hunters and our 12 pheasants.