I guess this could be considered out of topic but the H*ll with it. My grandaughter who is 3+ is always asking to watch Africian huning videos when she comes over and it is almost always Death By Double Rifle. I move it around in the collection but that is the one she always picks. Well yesterday about 4:00 PM she was playing in my son's rec room and looked out the double glass door and yelled to her mon "Mommie there are three bears in the back yard". Her mother came into the room and sure enough there were three bears going up the bank to the woods. This girl is going to be a hunter and I can't wait to take her to Africa for a little plains game hunt.

It is off topic, but I am going to let you off this time

I have a soft spot for little girls, as mine is 4 years old now.

She enjoys shooting her Chipmunk, and keeps telling me she wants to shoot a buffalo with it!!?



She is showing us how a lion growls

Die Ou Jagter:

I don't know who will be more excited by the anticipation of her first hunt; you or her?? Sounds like it may be a tie.

BTW - We are almost neighbors.

cwilson

cwilson, one of my oldest friends (mothers pushed us in baby buggies togeather) is Dave Watkins owner of Watkins Chev. Make the trip up over the mt for all truck maintance.

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Originally posted by Die Ou Jagter:
cwilson, one of my oldest friends (mothers pushed us in baby buggies togeather) is Dave Watkins owner of Watkins Chev. Make the trip up over the mt for all truck maintance.

It is a small world. I have my Suburban serviced at Watkins' Chevrolet. The General Manager there is a friend of mine and our kids play soccer together.

As an aside, Watkins Chevrolet is the only car dealership I have ever been in that has mounted animals (turkey, deer, elk. bear.etc) throughout the main showroom.

Saeed, I printed your Hessa's picture for my Allie.

cwilson, are you refering to Mark Vann.

Saeed: I like your rifle storage/display vaults in the background. (At least they appear to be rifle display/storage vaults.) What's in the glass displays up front?

My little girl just turned 17, and while devoted to horses would like to come hunting with me some day in Africa.

Rifles on top, and knives below.

Here are a couple more photos of my pride and joy.



Hessa is playing with her pet raccoon. His name is Rocky, and absolutely adores vanilla ice cream.



We took this photo earlier this year on the plane back from France.

The air hostesses don't have too much to do in our section of the plane, so they like to play with her.

One of the stewardesses put her cap and scarf on Hessa.

Hessa and Walter are a riot together. And any time they are both in our workshop, nothing gets done.

I just have to keep an eye on both of them not to damage themselves!

I'm with you on weekness for little girls. Every Sunday morning my 17 month old daughter and I sit and watch Under Wild Skies Africa together. Then we read the book, we all went on safari. We count the animals in Kiswahili. Silly, but fun.

Grandpa and I went in together on a Winchester 7mm-08 compact when she was 13 months old. You should have seen the look on the salesman's face when we said it was for her.

I wanted to buy her a Lil' Sharps to match my big one, but momma said it cost too much. Oh well, I'm going to have built for her and her brother or sister (due in June '07) a custom longbow before the gentleman that builds them retires.

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Originally posted by Die Ou Jagter:
Saeed, I printed your Hessa's picture for my Allie.

cwilson, are you refering to Mark Vann.

Yes.

Die Ou Jagter and Saeed,
Don't wish to much for that first hunt. I can still remember my daughters first hunt, it was a guinea fowl, I was so proud of her. Now she is a young lady studying, nature conservation. She cannot wait to be 21 years old, to become a ph.

Damn it, time goes by so quickly, it would have been nice to heep them small, they are so much fun.

She is still my baby, that will never change

Die Ou Jagter, don't tell me you are sleeping next to a grandmother

Die Ou Jagter - have you decided how long you'll wait before taking her to Africa to hunt? It sounds like she'll be ready whenever you are.

Saeed, Hessa is a beautiful child. I love the lion picture!

My daughter, Katie (11), shot her first African animal in June this year. It was from a hide so there was no stalking involved but she did take it in one shot. She wants to hang the mount in her bedroom.

cjw

Wonderful!

A thread full of shooting princesses!

I have 3 little granddaughters! My two daughters' kiddies.

They always remind me of Maurice Chevalier's song "Thanks heaven for little girls".

Anika on the left and Monique - at Anika's 2nd birthday party the two were playing on a jumping castle. Monique was 2 years and 4 months at that stage.

The youngest little girl, Lauren - Monique's little sister, the day she was baptized - 3 and a half month's old.



They are my life and then I am privileged to hunt as well!

When my daughter turned 9 I asked her what she wanted for a Birthday gift and she replied that she would like to hunt an Impala.

We spent a couple of days on the shooting range and after she had convinced me that she could shoot straight with the .223 the big day arrived...

We saw a bachelor herd from the road and commenced with the stalk which was quite tricky and involved quite a bit of belly-crawling but managed to get to within 30 yards from the herd which was at the time totally oblivious of our presence. Whilst I could see the animals most of the time, I didn't realise that young Ashley could not and as I was busy screening the herd for a nice representative Ram, she saw them for the first time. Next moment she stood up, tugging on my pants and urgently whispering: "Daddy, look: there they are to the right..." Needless to say, her sudden movement was enough to scare the herd off and in spite of our efforts we never got an opportunity to get close again so her hunt will have to wait for another time.

Later that weekend she picked up an injured little Woodlands Kingfisher which served as consolation for the little huntress' botched attempt at hunting her first animal.

My 4 year old daughter has been seeing me shoot crows from my house windows since she was a newborn and from the age she could speak whenever she hears a crow....crow....she comes running, "daddy, get the gun there's a crow!Shoot it!" soon it will be her turn

Next year I'll start taking her with me on short plains game hunts.

I am glad I started this string!

Here is a photo of one of my clients this past summer in South Africa. He said these kids followed him around everywhere he would go. They were the kids of the PH's that were there. This client says everywhere he goes to hunts the kids always take right to him. It is a fun picture to see the future of hunting and know that we need to do all we can to get them into the field.

Girls are special that is for sure. My daughter gets married next May. Boy, they do grow up fast. Saeed, your daughter is precious. The raccon though, funniest looking tail I ever saw on one. I assume it is different than a North America Racoon.

Ok,

Now here is one of my favorite subjects.

My two angels, my big girl with "her" double rifle.



My little girl dressed in typical native drab. She is a member of the Barbiearian tribe.



My big girl several years ago hunting with dad in Texas.

This daughter of mine and her husband are about to make me a grandfather. As payback for that I swear to do my darndest to turn any grandchildren into huntresses, hunters, and gunnuts. Note that we are a little slow to pick up on fashion crazes in Western Kentucky. The poodle skirt craze from the 50's just hit Western Kentucky last month.

OK, I guess I need to chime in on this one, here is my grandson, he is one of five grandkids, and I'm only 50!

I LOVE seeing photos of the future of our hunting sport! I applaude you for passing this tradition on to our next generation.

Saeed, make sure you have those guns loaded when Hessa gets older. You are going to have boy trouble!!!!!! A very beautiful young lady - I know you are proud!

This isn't a granddaughter. This is my son, Doc52's grandson, the next great hunter/shooter in the family, taken in Austria in August 2005:



Your American friend,

Youngest at eighteen,

She is now working her way through college, and "shooting" for a commision as a USAF fighter pilot. I hope no one tells her the comments I made about the idea of putting females in fighter jets back when I was one!



PS I got her the body armor and Glock to wear on dates.

Sorry, no pics of my granddaughters. I've locked them up in closets until they're 25. Then I may let them out.
Just kidding, buuuut...

What a great topic, exellent, our future with heritage for our love in hunting and shooting will be saved.

All the kids here will be good hunters and get great storys from theirs Grandpa`s.


Well in some years perhaps i will be putting in some of pictures of future hunters and huntresses....

My step son LOVES to go hunting with me-he is so curious about everything and can't wait until he is old enough to shoot! He is so much fun to teach and take along. I can't wait until he's old enough to shoot also!

Here is a few pics of my daughter at 18 months, also my pride and joy. She went on her first hunting trip at only 3 months old.

She is on the far right discussing supper with her cousins


Learning how to stalk up close......


She strongly believes mud on the face is a must even when wearing camos