exploratory day(pheasant hunt)

[kid #1]

For my school, every quarter all of the students get a day to hang around with friends and just have fun. We call this fun day Exploratory Day. We get like twenty-five or thirty choices to choose from, some only lasting half the day so you get to choose two things to do or the all day activities. Some of the choices were bowling or going to the waterpark of america, but the one I chose was pheasent hunting on the health teacher's farm. For the first part of the day, the students who chose to go pheasent hunting watched and listened to presentations about pheasents and there habitat. After that we each got to shoot trap, twenty-five clay birds per student. It was my first time shooting trap and I shot fourteen out of my twenty-five, shooting eight out of my last ten(I got better then some of the more experienced boys). Then we ate soup donated by a local cafe Bees on the River(awesome). Finally, the time had come to head out to Mr. McDonalds farm. He had divided the land into Field A, Field B, and Field C. The 8th graders got field A, me along with the other seventh graders got field B, and the sixth graders got field C. So we headed to field B with the dogs ready to scare up some birds. I was shooting my great grandpa's A-5 Belgain Browning 12 gauge, which brused my shoulder because once when I shot it I wasn't holding it quite right. I dropped like two or three birds, one shot about two of three times by other students after I shot it. In all, the 8th,7th, and 6th graders got about 40 pheasents. The parents weren't allowed to shoot any birds because then the students probably wouldn't even get a shot in before the bird was killed. What was kind of fun was that I was the only girl student there and I out did some of the boys . And a special thanks goes out to the best hunt club teacher Mr. McDonald for going to a lot of trouble to give us the awesome chance of hunting on his farm, which we all know as Old McDonald's farm! Also I'd like to thank the Wings of Watertown game farm for letting us students gather there today and letting us shoot the birds there today! The whole day was so amazingly awesome!

[Randy Kaar]

Great post! Thanks for sharing.

randy

[kenhuntin]

You did a great job teaching those boys how to hunt! I am very happy for you and wish my school had a day like that. Being a father of four girls I don't think you should even talk to a boy that cannot compete with your shooting skills. Awesome job.

[BiggA]

That is way cool. I wish i could have had an oppurtunity like that in school. Good job on the trap shooting as well. First time I tried that I only hit 9.

[dakids]

I am one proud dad!  She took coaching very well.  She was stopping when she was shooting in stead of following through.  The whole day was one of the best experiances I have ever had with a school function.  I wish this would have been available when I was in school.  Safety was the first and most important thing that was comunicated to the students.  To prove my point.  The kids dropped a bird which took off running in front of the kids.  As the lab named SHOOTER is chasing the bird across the field infront of all of the kids the dogs owner is yelling "get em shooter, shooter, get em shooter."  Not one single kid shot or even brought the gun up.  Next year my daughter will be able to bow hunt in the morning and evening and pheasant hunt in the afternoon.  She is already telling me she is going to shoot a deer and show the boys how to gut the deer.

Way to go KID #1
Love ya!!
Your dad

[MTCOMMER]

Wow. That is an awesome story and a great opportunity for the kids. Nice to see a school doing that! Congrats on the shooting KID, keep up the good work and show your dad how to hunt... He could learn some things!
GREAT POST!