Success at last

After a long dry spell I finally got to see some blood spilled from a critter. Last week we had a safety gathering here at Anadarko. Most of our safety people came in from all over the US in addition to a couple of people from our international offices. On Friday, I took John Geng and Jeff Ostmeyer to Blanton’s place for an evening of shooting and pig hunting. John, being from China, is not allowed to own any kind of gun, so we thought it would be a good idea to let him shoot lots of different guns. The arsenal looked somewhat like this:

5 -- .22 LR rifles
3 -- .22 Magnum Rifles
1 – 6 mm Remington
1 – 300 Magnum
1 – AK-47
1 – AK-74
1 – Mini 14
2 -- .22LR pistols
1 – 380 pistol
1 -- 9mm pistol
1 – 45 pistol
2 – 12 ga. Shotguns

There were others as well.

Anyway, I gave john my hat to wear and we gave him a few lessons. He did very well for a beginner. I’m not sure how many rounds were fired, but there were plenty.

As it started to get late, we headed to the stands to wait on some pigs to come to the feeders. John had proven himself worthy with the 6 mm as you can see in the picture. We saw 3 deer and a couple of coons, nothing for me to get really excited about, but John was having the time of his life. Unfortunately, no pigs came to our feeder, so we headed to pick up Jeff right after dark. His weapon of choice was the AK-74 with illuminated reticles and a laser sight. It worked well. When we picked him up, there were two dead pigs laying out in the field that had become that way after the shooting light had left. We loaded them up and took them to the gutting place. After we took the insides out, we hung them up and took the outsides off.

I gave all the meet to Jeff, and he met me at the office this morning with a few packages of sausage. All in all, it was a great time. John will be able to tell all his friends what Texas is really like.