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Baffin Bay
As soon as we got off the plane, we had to drive to Baffin Bay. We had a stop off at our bay house to get all our gear and then drive down past Corpus Christi to the way to fish with a student and his wife. Last month we had fished with them, along with Captain Sally and her husband Captain Black. Baffin Bay is known for its trophy trout, but with the weather this year being so strange, any trout or redfish is good.We ... Read more…
Argentina 2014
We arrived in Cordoba, Argentina on Tuesday, August 5th, having left Houston on Monday. We got through customs, and then on to the lodge. That trip was another two hours, but at the lodge, Eduardo met us with champagne and goodies to snack on. So it was 5 AM by the time we got to bed. Needless to say, we choose to forgo the early morning hunt - but not the afternoon one. This came after a wonderful lunch of beef and of... Read more…
Move and Mount in Sporting Clays
Just how important is the move and mount in sporting clays? Well, in the beginning, it is everything. But unfortunately, that's where many shooters get stuck in a rut and never get out.They are so hung up on lead and swing technique and what the end of the muzzle is doing that they end up looking at the muzzles 80 to 90 percent of the time in the shooting stand when they are getting ready to shoot. Is it any wonder tha... Read more…
Teaching in South Dakota
We finally got to Hunters Pointe Sporting Clays in Humboldt, South Dakota, 16 miles west of Sioux Falls. Tony Bour, the owner, had been trying to get us to come up there for two years but it just never worked out. So we squeezed it in this year to teach on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and returned to Houston on Saturday night because we needed to be somewhere else by Sunday evening. It was a great travel plan, but it... Read more…
Struggle is Necessary for Improvement
Thanks to Jeff Wolfe for sending this to me after we talked about writers and other instructors blatantly stealing our words and phrases:“It’s like any other knowledge you don’t work to obtain. Just because you have it, that doesn’t mean you really understand it, or know how to apply it properly. Actually, that’s true of the whole learning process, I suppose.🙂”This is why it’s the struggle that is necessary for improve... Read more…
