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High Volume Shoot - Bolivia 2019
I'm home from Bolivia. Gil and I had a great week seeing old friends, making new ones and instructing in the field on how to best take the dove and pigeon shots. Everyone did their gun mount homework. Slowing the birds down was big for most. But there is always a but! Since we had one student who had never been on a high-volume shoot, we took very good care to make sure that there was no damage to the shoulder. ... Read more…
Kentucky, Colorado, Bolivia and Argentina!
We went to a new (to us) club - Jefferson County Sportsmen's Club in Louisville, KY. The flight over was interesting. As much as we travel, we haven’t had the pilot come on the speaker and say we needed to stop for fuel due to the bad headwinds. So we stopped at a small airport and got fuel and got back on our way. It put us two and a half hours late, but we got there. At the club in Louisville, we learned a lo... Read more…
April - Frozen to Blustery!
Gil and Brian got home from teaching the kids of SCTP in Frozen Butt, Iowa. After I taught the novice clinic and Easter coming up, we started a Coaching Hour on Wednesday. But there was so much static after 15 minutes, we decided no one could hear anything so we would do it on Thursday. Everyone hung up but Dan Paxton and myself. Then the static was gone. So, Gil got back on the phone and told several people that ... Read more…
Nineteen Years at Camanche Hills!
It’s been 19 years that we have been coming to Camanche Hills Sporting Clays in Northern California. My, how time has flown. Next year we will have to have a party when our 20th year rolls around. We had some new students and some repeats, but it seems like the problems are the same. In the first hour of each day, we go through the animations and try to get everyone on the same page. But it seems that it is s... Read more…
2019 Spring has Sprung - Back on the road again!
Lessons from the Advance SchoolWe had two weeks of Advance School at the 74 Ranch, and what a great two weeks they were.The biggest thing we worked on was having a pause before you call “pull,” and the sequencing of your pre-shot routine.It took everyone a little time to get their timing down on the pause, but they realized that the pause before the calling “pull” actually helped clear their mind of the chatter and clu... Read more…
