My daughter are going to be a trainee fore one month at Lowlands Hunting Safaris.
She is now making a video blog about her preparations fore this experience. She is doing so to become more comfortable about speaking English and also to handle firearms on here own.
Hoping you guys will encourage here in here efforts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VSCCF1rVA

Her English was very good, would have no trouble communicating with her

i agree with brent, her english is very good hopefully she continues with the series will be very interesting to see a different side of the safari operations in africa

That is just great. You must be very proud of your daughter.

Tom

Her English is definitely very good, plus she is a cutie!!!!

Good to see a young lady prepping for Africa!

Best regards, D. Nelson

My sons have seen that and requested that I immediately offer trainee safaris for daughters, sisters and nieces. And their friends.

Great blog and hope you all have a fantastic time.

I would swap my sons for cash and simply send me your deposit details.

What a brave young lady traveling to South Africa alone. Good for her!

Wow! God bless her.

We had a good time in January on our family holiday with the 3 kids 19,16 & 13 shooting the 22. The 16 year old also hunted with me for hare & I shot a few with the 222Rem & the 7mm08.

Always great to shoot with the kids.

The very best wishes to her!

Best of luck to her.

She is awesome! Her english is fine.
Her shooting stance is excellent. Remember to squeeeeeze. the trigger. Brian

Wow! Very impressive video and a great thing for her to spend a month in Africa. Her English is quite good - she has nothing to worry about there. Looking forward to hear more of her adventure.

What an impressive young lady.

I watched all the segments. She is doing a great job. I do find myself talking back to the screen with unnecessary advice -- as if I were talking to my own girls!

Waiting to see how her new shooting stick arrangement works out. I am of course an expert from having read many discussions here about how to make a pair, never having actually made any myself.

Good for her, I have four daughters one who is the same age as yours.

Nice video. Like the way she shoots offhand and, especially, the way she uses the flat of her hand to lift and move the bolt backwards rather than using the thumb and forefinger, which I was taught is a recipe for short stroking.

She'll be fine.

Regards, Tim

Congratulations Sir for properly raising a very nice young lady! Her English is fine, certainly far better than my Norwegian, which is none at all.
All my sons and a daughter shoot, and so do all my 13 grand children save one who just shows no interest at all.
The world needs more ladies like your daughter!
.................................................................Again congratulations Sir!

best of luck to her, and what an adventure lies ahead. Wow!!

Very impressive young lady.

Much more of a paper puncher than a hunter but, it seemed to me the young lady was jerking the trigger when shooting the .308 off the sticks
instead of focusing on the target and squeezing. Just a quick observation.

Her English is better than mine.
Plus she looks sooooooo much better.
You should be very proud of her.

She will enjoy the month.

Please share with her the following websites should she be interested in doing courses later on in South Africa.

http://www.fgasa.co.za

http://www.ecotraining.co.za

Video nr 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGX6JNvYxZI

Video nr 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln37lAAvtQU

T.Carney, I always wondered about palm vs thumb and forefinger . I cam across a video of a WWI training scene where the camera could see down the whole length of the shooting line . About half use palm and half used thumb and forefinger !
I'm a palm man myself ! I have no idea why she had a stiff bolt problem. Give her some time and she'll get it all squared away !

Video nr 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-SJLjUzMQ

Video nr9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBFi7KG5Io4

It has been fun to watch her getting ready for this great adventure. I hope she has a good time, learns a lot.

Thank you for sharing,

Tom

Storm,

Your daughter's english is more than sufficient but she may find difficulty in understanding english spoken with an afrikaans accent.

And, for her own convenience, she might consider putting those golden locks in a bun as she spends too much time brushing it aside when trying to aim.

Got caught up on the newer videos today. You should be very proud of her. it will be interesting to see how her techniques change, if at all, while she is there.

Quick update from my daughter, Day one they are out looking for elephants
Day 2 retrieving hippo from lake

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Originally posted by storm5:
Quick update from my daughter, Day one they are out looking for elephants
Day 2 retrieving hippo from lake

Today they are caping the hippo

It looks like she is having a good time.

Thanks for the update.

Tom

Wonderful!!!

Video nr 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3WMMvBlo0

Video nr 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngH3VUP800

still envious of your daughter,

glad she looks to be having fun and looks like she is doing fine with the big bores

Well done again!

Thank you guys.
She now hase a new video up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6aTHzL_18