1/19/2007

Today was a great day of upland hunting and sporting clays at the TMT Preserve in Clinton Hollow, NY. Here is Buddy Cipoletti at the end of the day on the sporting clays course.

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Yours truly, Captain Al having a good time shooting sporting clays in the woods at TMT Preserve.

Artie Cipoletti giving it a go at Station 1 on this really nice 15 stand sporting clays course.

Here we are set to shoot a round of clays in the afternoon after our morning walk-up hunt. Phil Mascolo, Artie Cipoletti, Tom Mackin the owner of TMT and Captain Al.

Buddy Cipoletti in the Kitchen area of the lodge at TMT. He is shooting some video of the lodge. I will post a video clip of the trip in the near future.

Phil and Artie enjoying some food for lunch by the fire place. We did a hunt in the morning and then broke for lunch before a round of sporting clays to finish the day.

This is the main room of the lodge at TMT. It is very cozy and warm. This is where you can store your gear and relax before and after the hunt. The lodge is very clean and well maintained. Tom Mackin and his crew are very friendly and considerate of all your needs.

This is the lodge which sits in a beautiful little valley in some of the nicest looking land in all of the northeast. This is a well run, top quality preserve. Everything functions like clockwork.

Here is the hunting group for the day. Tom and his dog Emma, Artie and Buddy Cipoletti, Phil Mascolo and Al Lorenzetti. Also included is some of the birds we bagged for the day. We had about 25 pheasants including a beautiful dark blue Mongolian and about a dozen chuckar partirdge. It was an exciting quality hunt with ideal conditions. At TMT safety is first but quality hunting with spectacular birds is what it is all about.

Here we have Phil and Buddy both doing a simultaneous pheasant. Notice Emma directly below the bird. She really did a great job of working the birds and had amazing stamina.