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Troy Fowler
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"Accept the reality of your current situation. You are an integral part."

Tom Loves Hog Hunting

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

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There is never enough ammunition

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

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There is never enough ammunition

Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME

Pigs - Slugs - Rigs - Slug

Yeah, well, I broke it off and bought a Contour head cam.  Finally put it to good use.  The story begins a little differently.  My lovely 15 year old daughter, sometime in Sept or Oct 2011 mentions wanting to shoot a pig.  I kind of "uh, huh, yeah, uh, yeah, okay" her and don't think  much of it.  She brings it up again and I ask a few poignant questions.  Actually one - "Darling, dear, you have never really shown an interest in hunting, why all of a sudden?"  The reply is very straightforward including some wonderful hunting logic bordering on an excuse to GO hunting.  "See dad" she says, "When I mention how much you go hunting at the ranch and all that - the kids always ask if I have ever killed anything!"  A pause to answer some pressing text message......................."So, I figured I'd shoot one pig and get it over with."  Dad, thinks this is a perfectly logical excuse to GO hunting.

My wife is absolutely awesome as well.

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I put Libby through the standard firearms instruction, we shot a bit with my RWS model 52 magnum air rifle.  It's a scoped, accurate bugger.  If you relax it will hit 9mm shells at 20 paces with ease.  I started Libby on a can, then moved down to empty 20 gauge shells.  She popped three in a row, that was enough.

See, here's the trick.  You hardly ever feel recoil, heck most of the time you never hear the gun go off when you shoot something.  So why let a new shooter feel recoil?  I have a killer pellet gun as big as any rifle out there and much heavier with a target scope - perfect practice.  20 minutes before we went hunting I pulled out the .223 showed libby how to operate it and had her dry fire it twice.  I made sure she followed through on each shot and stayed down looking through the scope as she pulled the trigger.

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Girls follow directions better than boys.

30 minutes later we found three pigs at a feeder.  We had discussed Dad's magic aiming methodology which is to "shoot them in the cheek."  She did that and our pig went down after a delightful whop!  Yippeee .223 - she gets to add her name to the stock.

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Small Boy with Laugh Lines

A.D.D. is AWESOME