March 12

This is how to start a day of shootin'...
sausage biscuit and coffee by the fire

skeet shootin' off the mountain
what a view!

...here's the right side of the field.

Stations posted around this field...

Yay! Father/Daughter shootin' stuff!

Oh, what a day! Sequatchie Concrete had their annual 'pheasant shoot' and for the first time, Dad accepted the invitation and brought me along! I have been wanting to go shootin' for a while now. We first had breakfast and then went to shoot some skeet (and teach me how to use Grandad's 55 year old, gold-triggered, Belguim made Browning Light 12), then we all gathered at the field for the 'shoot' (not a hunt cause it was very structured). There were 20 'stations' set up (a saw horse with a bucket for shells) with 2 people each. The pheasants (and chuckers) were thrown off of a huge cherry-picker and you shot at it if it came near you! Then after 4-5 birds were thrown, you went opposite ways as your partner to the next station, and so on till you'd hit all 20 stands (so you get each partner twice). Imagine my surprise when, after I partnered with Dad, my partner with Phil Fulmer! (and for all your non-Tennesseeans, he was the head coach of UT for a lot of years, and in the movie 'The Blindside' for those who saw it). So, we met the first time around, then when we were partnered for the 2nd time, he asked how I doing and I told him I'd only hit one, so when we both happened to shoot at one that flew by he said "I'll let you have half of that one." HAHA! So by the end of the day, I had shot 2.5 pheasants! After the shoot, we headed back for a delicious low country boil and then went home. The pheasants are being cleaned now and hopefully I'll post again when we cook those bad boys up!

I thought when I left Savannah I'd never had to
eat another low country boil...I was wrong.
But it was delish, shrimps and all!