Christiaan
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The last weekend of Wing Shooting 2010
This was the last weekend we could go muzzleloading wingshooting. So yesterday we walked the fields for the last ime with our muzzlelaoding shotguns.
Today our GSP, Jessica is one year old. To train Jessica I went to the outdoors every weekend for the last six weekends. Over six weekends I only shot
3 birds (did fire my 20Ga much more but the bird population are quite safe with me).
Yesterday the beautiful mother of the hunters came with us, which made it very special.
She handled the camera and took a few nice pics. But the pics looks better if she is in it. Here Erika is with her handsome hunter, Josua.
Here she wasn't impressed that she had to walk through the swampy stream with her sneakers. We were walking next to a small swampy stream where the
francolins were hiding this time of the year.
I shot a Swainson francolin yesterday. It looked like a good shot and we send the dog to retrieve but neither he nor us could find the bird in the
long grass. There were quite a few birds but most were very alert at the end of the season. They flew up out of range for our Muzzleloader smokepoles.
Jessica did point a pair of Redwing pheasants and it was a beautiful sight to see them fly that fast low flight. The wings are very red this time of
the year for the mating season. We didn't want to shoot the Redwings because they were probably a breeding pair. The area we were walking was in a
swampy stream area and there is a lot of pig activity so I took the Colt 45ACP with me. Pigs can be very aggresive this time of the year.
When the sun was setting over Africa to bring fresh light over the US we saw a beautiful single Aloe flowering in the very dry yellow winter field. It
was a fantastic end to a very special wingshooting year. The contrast of dry grass and the new life of flowers hold the promise of the spring.
Miracles happen every day, may you see yours today.
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MoHuntress
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WOW! That's some awesome stuff!!!! 
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Christiaan
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Thanks Mohuntress, it was a great day. We will keep up the training
but will not shoot. The bass are biting so we might do some fishing as well.
Miracles happen every day, may you see yours today.
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carnivore
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Good stuff Christiaan !! Way to go MOM, push them boys and the ole man
one more time to the field , if you can measure your success this past season in Jessicas advancements, then i'd say it's been a blue banner year
.Christiaan you have a very good looking family there, and I love seeing the portrait with Jessica and her mentors. that needs to be a big framed
family picture for the wall.
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Christiaan
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Thanks carnivore, I sure took some great pics during this hunting season. I should put a few in a frame like you suggest.
Miracles happen every day, may you see yours today.
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What a GREAT day for you all! ! ! Nothings better than sharing the outdoors with the ones you love! ! !
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Christiaan
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So true It was great
Miracles happen every day, may you see yours today.
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sharps4590
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Now how wonderful is all that!!!! I'll have to agree with carni, some of those ought to be enlarged and framed. There's always next year too! Good
fer all of ye Christiaan!!
Vic
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killmode
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great pics
Work like it's all up to YOU, but pray like it's all up to GOD...
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Christiaan
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Thanks, Vic and Killmode.
Vic, I'm busy planning to go and shoot some sandgrouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgrouse in the Kalahari, in a place called Groblershoop http://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsnc/groblershoop.php next year in July.
Somebody invited me. It is in an area I have never visited. We will make it a family holiday.
After that I want to drive to the town of Ceres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_Western_Cape to shoot some Spurwing. I'm not a wine drinker but that area is known for some of the most
beautiful wine farms and fruit farms. So we would like to visit a few.
This muzzleloading wingshooting seems to to us to the most wonderful places.
Petrus will also have the opportunity to wet a line in some superb rivers.
Miracles happen every day, may you see yours today.
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