This was over a week ago on the shotgrouping range. She was the 1st soldier in her whole company to get shotgrouped and zeroed!! over 200 tranees in her company!!! 10 rnds for shot grouping( two five shot groups) Drill Sgt made a sight adjustment on her weapon. Another 5 shot group..on Target another 5 shot group zero confirmed!! Thats my girl!
In her letters she said the Drill had her coaching some hard heads on the zero and downrange feed back range. They asked her where she learned to shoot..her answer..." I grew up hunting and fishing with my dad"...Gotta love that! She said the Drills call her hot shot now...LOL hopefully it wont jinx her when it comes time to qualify!!Her spirits are good and she had a bad bout with bronchidis (sp) was in the ER for that. Lost a lot of weight and some upper body strength. She is recovering from that though and feeling better. Now its just the blisters on her feet from breaking in the boots. These are things every trainee goes thru. I remember those days well as a soldier and a Drill Sgt. She said to say hello on the forum and she will be home for x-mas and cant wait to eat junk food...and go hunting with dad!!!
A little up date on my huntng, My goal every year is to stock my freezers full before duck season starts. Fortunatly its been a good season( except for horns LOL) Duck season starts this sat but with the hot weather and dry conditions..it's not looking good at all..pretty dismal to be honest. The wife told me we are good in the meat dept. I have managed to roll up 7 deer and 7 hogs so far. I only hunt public land here managed to See 62 deer hunting so far this year and have been beat by not one..but two nice bucks
But thats hunting. It may seem like a lot of deer but remember here on the coast of GA they are small, average 1.5 year old buck will be close to 100 lbs live weight and average doe 75 to 80 lbs live weight. So we average 23 lbs or so a deer on meat .I am at a point where I can't sleep at night. On Thanksgiving afternoon I will be leaving for Missouri for 10 days of duck and maybe some goose hunting. The boys have been rolling up the mallards for the last week...I hope they stick around. I'll post up a hunting report of the trip when I return.
Good hunting to all and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
