Koffiefontein - III

Koffiefontein - Day 2 (Pics to follow)

GMan and Nash were up and away at 4 am. They wanted to get into the fishing early. The rest of us were up by 7 am, except for some of the mom's who kinda came out by 8am. breakfast was
a eat what you can find affair, and the hosts domestic made a popular Afrikaans dish, "Vetkoek", with curry mince!!!

Got the rest of the kids down to the river, and we once again got involved in the game of " chilling, fishing, eating, drinking.....". The boys caught some fish, I never even got a bite. We took our pellet guns (air rifles) with (4 off them) and decided to try our skills. Filled a 2lt plastic bottle, filled with water, tied it to the fuffie slide (LIU),, and let it slide over the water. We now had a safe target to shoot at. The other 3, GMan, LuckyL and Alan had scopes on their rifles, me, I had my trust BSA Meteor, (35 yearsold!), and normal sights. I put my first 5 shots into the bottle! The other guys took a bit longer to hit it, but did eventually!
Later, I took out the Benelli 9mm parabellum! it has been a while since the Princess used the
gun, so I figured time she had some training, and I needed to get rid of the old bullets anyway. She took a couple of shots to get into it, and then hit a target at 10 meters, within 300mm. basically, she could hit a man at 10 paces no problem. Some of the others took turns to shoot. LuckyL was most impressive, hitting the 10m target spot on 3 times. He's got a natural eye, and holds the pistol well.

Then it was time for me to show off. I put 2 slugs into a 44 gallon drum at 150 meters+!!!!!! Not
bad for an old timer hey? Rest of the day was spent chilling, then up to the house for supper which was more lamb chops and the ribs. Wow, what a meal!

Brian shared with us that he had taken a drive around the place to look at the sheep and the
Springbok. Found an ewe giving birth and sat and watched her for about an hour and a half.
Took a lot of photo's. Figures he's now a proud dad, and has the son he always wanted! After dinner a round of Texas Hold'em poker, which GMan won. He took away ZAR250 for his troubles! Took the kids back down to the river for their last overnight there, and for late night fishing, and we retired back to the homestead, warm comfortable beds, etc.

Salagatle!