Friday, January 19, 2007

Final days of AZ pass shooting Heading to Mexico






Our shooting party is overwhelmed at the opportunity in the field and our side trips. Our camp has two gourmet chefs so we dine well. They prepare dove, quail and rabbit simple but tasteful, pan frying, broiling and in casserole. With the great Napa wine and our sweet tooth’s nourish at all time I wonder how I am going to slim down for New Zealand and the Baja.

Today I employ a friend to takes us back into the mountain and show us the pre Colombian Hohokam graffiti drawing he found several decades ago. The guide is very protective and proud of the area and trusts us not to give away the location. My sons are best pass shooters and excellent upland hunters and find a water hole with huge catfish. This makes our southern chef happy and orders the boy to bring him ten pounds of cats for a feed with doves. The boys leave at night and return after midnight with a bag full of live catfish. By morning Chef Kenny has them filleted and soaking in brine.

Weather is wonderful highs in lower 70’s and low in the 40’s. Dogs are marking well and the GWP is turning into an excellent dove dog. She still can not recover cripple like the lab but she tries.

I enjoyed my 28 ga more this year and will look for a 28 ga hammergun.

I will pull camp in the next day or two and move the party to Mexico and continue our quail shoots for Mearns and saltwater fishing