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Sorry for being late on my after action report. Sunday I was whopped & today I was pretty busy.

What a great and wonderful time this weekend was!!!

Allegra & I drove down to DCS on Thursday afternoon. Being the responsible adults that we are, we stayed up until past 3:00 a.m. talking and drinking.

Around mid-day Friday we managed to drag ourselves out & pick up all the food & snacks needed for Saturday. When we arrived back at DCS, we were greeted by Eaker ~ showing us his hand where “this dog bite me”. Later in the evening mylife, thackney and his lovely wife Holly drove over to DCS. After the nickel tour we all headed to “Off The Hook” restaurant for dinner. Shortly after we arrived LuvW & NYTexan joined us, then froufrou and her wonderful husband Rocky showed up. We had some amazing appetizers ~ their stuffed jalapenos are stuffed with crab meat … it was DE-licious ~ the only problem with the appetizers was Eaker & Holly would not share the boiled shrimp with the other end of the table!! Everyone really seemed to enjoy his or her dinner (the fried shrimp is damn near a good as my mothers!). After leaving the restaurant thackney & Holly went back to the hotel to crash; LuvW & NYTexan went to check into the hotel; Eaker, myself, Allegra, mylife, froufrou & Rocky headed back to DCS for a night cap. Not one of us brought our camera’s to the restaurant.

The following morning all of the restaurant crew met up with us at DCS and proceeded to the range. There was a bit of a delay getting into the range, as the owner forgot we scheduled the event for that day (he had not yet changed his calendar from April to May) & he had to go out to feed the cows. After several minutes of signing a release form and paying the range fee it was off to the range. I stayed back for a while to await the late Freepers, and had a nice conversation with Mr. Schwenke ~ turns out he knew my dad and my great grandparents. The range was awesome. Although we had to share it with cows & a horse. One cow was extremely ticked off that we were disturbing her Saturday. There was a discussion amongst ourselves about the range rules ~ the range owner said we could not shoot the cows, he did not say anything about shooting the horse. ;-) We decided it would be bad form to shoot the horse; although thackney literally scared the $hit out of it.

I left a bit early to start the food preparations at DCS. Upon leaving I was met by Mr. Schwenke and thanked him for his hospitality & let him know how much everyone enjoyed his range. He told me that he turned away six members that wanted to shoot, and after he explained why, not one of them had a problem with the reason. From what I understand he greeted everyone upon their exit, wanting to make sure they had a good time.

First thing to be set up at DCS was snacks! Thank you Tijeras_Slim for once again supplying salsa & chips (next weekend I will use the remainder of one of the salsa’s to make an amazing omelet). I fried some shrimp that had issues with the batter sticking ~ I was told that shrimp was still very tasty. Along with the fried shrimp were hush puppies, which I am told was LuvW’s favorite part to the entire meal. thackney & Eaker were in charge of the boiled shrimp & crawfish. SouthTexas brought a brisket, red beans & potato salad (which was really, really good).

Once everyone was full & happy, we had several field trips. A group headed to the north forty to try to find the alligator (he never did make an appearance ~ at one point he sent a cattail in his stead). Another group headed down the road to visit an evil neighbor goat (I hate that goat!) During one of the evil goat (I hate that goat) field trips we were greeted by a horse, which did not stay around very long but graced us with a loud and embarrassing horse fart.

Saturday evening was just a lot of fun, with great conversation. I really enjoyed visiting with all of those that were there. And I was thrilled to finally meet SouthTexas.

Eaker pictures will be posted within the next few days . . . .

Already looking forward to next years shoot!