Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Riley's Hunting Trip

Since Randy no longer has his own hunting lease, he has been unable to share his love with Riley.  So when our friend Chuck mentioned going dove hunting on his family's property in Henrietta, Randy jumped at the chance.  The best part for me was Randy woke Riley up early, got him dressed, fed, and I got to sleep in.  So they headed out early Saturday morning to begin their hunt.  There were a total of 5 guys that went out.  Randy, Riley, Chuck, his son Brandon, and Chuck's dad.  What a great family event. Now the adults were actually the only ones doing the killing, but they did let the boys get in some target practice.  Riley may not have killed anything, but he was sure proud of being out there with Daddy.
I love their makeshift gun holder.  Apparantly Riley did get to shoot the big gun once, but the kickback was so strong that he decided he was just fine with the smaller gun and bb gun.
I am proud to say that Riley apparently already has a pretty good shot and was having lots of fun during target practice.  I see lots of hunting weekends with Daddy in his future.
The boys cooling off a little as it was time to head back in.
It was just supposed to be a morning hunt, but somehow it turned into a whole family weekend.  Randy called me as I was headed home from church with Alex and asked if we had anything else planned that day.  Since it was a 3 day weekend, he drove home to get us and we packed stuff to spend the night.  The four of us joined the rest of Chuck's family and had a great weekend with the Isom family.  The boys got to go out 2 more times to hunt and the girls got to spend some great time catching up and relaxing hanging out in the kitchen.  I really appreciated the Isom's hospitality.  The kids loved getting out in nature and away from the city.

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