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No Heavy Lifting!
Wow what a busy 3 weeks. Sorry to be so late in letting your know what the Ash’s are doing, so here goes. Gil went to Boise, Idaho with John Wiles of Best Wingshooting to check out a place in the US that you could hunt collard doves and pigeons. At some point he noticed a bulge in his navel and it began to hurt. Thanks to Mr. Google he was able to make everything back in place, but upon arrival in Housto... Read more…
Nationals 2018
I’m sitting inside our RV in San Antonio at the 2018 NSCA National Tournament and it is pouring down rain here.We chose not to go and shoot our 28-gauge 100-bird competition or the 28-gauge FITASC event because of the rain. Hurricane Willa started coming through this morning and it has not stopped raining buckets all day.As most of the ground here is dirt, it can be a little treacherous walking - or should I say slippi... Read more…
Preparing For A Hunt
We have been busy teaching a lot of folks who are going on some kind of hunt, some for the first time. I have had several lessons with folks going to Argentina for the first time and tried to emphasize that they needed to practice with their gun even if they weren’t taking it to use their left arm a lot, since that gets the most wear.I remember the first time we went. In the morning I shot 14 boxes and 14 more in the a... Read more…
Phoenix is HOT in September!!!
rian and I got away from the rain in Houston and into the heat in Phoenix… and I mean the heat. It was 110 degrees at least each day, and we got through it.Wow, it was so hot! But it was a dry heat…The takeaway from this weekend is don’t go to Phoenix in September. But we will be going in February 2019. Check our schedule and come see us.The biggest a-ha was that you don’t look down the barrel, but to the left or right... Read more…
Bolivia - Pennsylvania - Phoenix!
Sorry to be so late with another blog, but things have been really busy here.We went to Bolivia to a beautiful lodge and shot doves and pigeons for four days. Gil had gone last year when I was kid-sitting in Oregon and was so impressed that we went this year with a few of our students and friends.The lodge was wonderful and had a pool, massage room, sauna, and hot tub, along with a magnificent bar area. Hunting was not... Read more…
