Stephanie's First Hunting Trip!

Between all of the partying with cake, I went hunting the day after my birthday! Paul, Corey's dad, took Corey and I out to some place near Nephi, UT to hunt pheasants. I honestly had no idea what to expect at first, but I was impressed by how much fun it actually was! It was at a place where some people raise pheasants and chukars (which btw does not mean that they are easy in any way to find or shoot). So the people who worked there spread them out in appx. a three mile radius or so in sagebrush. Then we let Panzer, Paul's German Short-haired Pointer Dog, go out and sniff out the terrain and find our pheasants. Let me tell you, when he points it is pretty crazy cool because Panzer stops, whips his head around and is stiff with his nose pointing strait out. At that moment your adrenaline surges throughout your body as you release the safety on the gun and walk towards the side of him to search for the pheasant. The first pheasant shot up out of the air as I got close to the bush and flew straight away infront of me, I pulled up the gun (Corey's new Beretta Xtrema2 12 gauge.. which hasn't EVER been shot before), aimed, and pulled the trigger. I SHOT IT!!! I couldn't believe it for a second!! but I shot my first pheasant on the first shot! Which was also the $700 first shot of the Beretta (meaning they cost about $1600 and now its worth about $900 because it's now "Used"). I was super excited and Corey was definitely impressed :) The rest of the day was really fun and I ended up gutting the pheasant (way weird experience.. try shoving your finger up the sternum of a bird and yanking..). Overall I really enjoyed it and was way glad I went with Corey and Paul, we had a great time!