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Burn Pine Plantation European "Lite" Pheasant & Quail Hunt,
October 14th - 16th, 2005
Look out birds! Here come the "Girls Gone Wild," Camille Lemon & Holly
Peterson!
Here is Camille's description of the weekend hunt...
What a great 3 day event I had. Friday was an all day quail hunt, where I
got to see pointers working extremely hard!! How beautiful they pointed!!!
Just beautiful!!
Saturday they released 660 birds for all 11 of us and then
the walk up on Sunday. What a GREAT time Holly and I had together. Yes, we
did get questioned many times because they don't see too many
women participating in an event like this, ESPECIALLY without their spouses.
I met many incredible hunters...Some who have a trophy room or should I
say trophy house with incredible stories of all their fascinating hunts from
the illusive Bongo in the Cameroon where the guides were pigmies to the rhino
that finally dropped at a mere 4 foot distance!!!
The food was incredible
including food and wine driven out to the fields. This event was called a
European lite and all the guys came out in their fancy European tweeds and breeks
and such for the tower shoot. Me, I did well in my Cabellas down home look
and shot very well!! Clint and I are vacuum-packing all my pheasant and quail we
brought home.
My buddy Holly even shot the money bird (he's released from the
tower with a pink ribbon hanging from his leg) and won a few bets so she came
home with $220. I was so fortunate to have been invited on this hunt as
Holly's husband could not make it and she wanted a companion and said "Hey, I
know Camille would go with me" and yes I did!!!
If you'd like to see the
place go to
www.burntpine.com
This was by far one of my most favorite weekends of my 42 years of
life!! May we always appreciate each and every day we have on this earth,
there is so much to see and experience...
Bang bang, shoot 'em up!
Camille Lemon
Holly, Camille and one of their 4 legged friends after an exciting quail hunt!
And here is what Holly had to say...
My dear friend, Camille Lemon, and I had the pleasure of spending the weekend at
Burnt Pines Plantation in Newborn, GA with 9 other bird hunters and their
spouses.
The hunt was called "European Lite Weekend" and consisted of a quail hunt with
bird dogs on Friday, three rounds of pheasant tower shoots on Saturday and a
"South Dakota style" walk-up pheasant hunt on Sunday.
It was a wonderful weekend with lots of shooting, delicious food and fabulous
wines!
Camille and I held our own very well amongst the other shooters (there was only
1 other woman shooting) and I even shot one of the three "Money Birds" that were
released during the tower shoots!
I have done mostly big-game hunting and not very much bird shooting, so for me
the experience was exceptional. I had the time of my life and am looking
forward to many more bird hunts!
Holly Peterson
Holly bagged one of three "Money Birds!"
SCI Chapter Members Jim McLain (l) & Steve Meaux (r) also participated in the
hunt.
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