Our last newsletter was in December 2011. I have some valid excuses for the long delay. We hosted the most clients ever during our sunflowers season of January-April. We successfully started up our pigeon lodge Paloma Brava with some incredible client reviews. We have been working on some great “top-secret” projects that will be unveiled in the next few months. I personally took a month long trip to Asia with the wife (I know, least valid excuse). In any case the newsletter is long overdue. So lets get to it.

As always the most pertinent question is how are the birds? It’s a valid question given the following accomplishments: Shannon Watson and father shattering the father/son record; Randy Martin and Rick Wright going head-to-head in an incredible record breaking day; and Eric Hellbach from Bisso Marine shooting an unthinkable amount of birds in one day. As much as I want to publish the numbers, we need to be careful these days. So you will need to visit the lodges to hear these incredible stories. The most amazing thing of course is that the bird population keeps increasing. Almost all clients will attest that Cordoba is now better than ever. The best province to shoot birds just keeps improving despite the staggering amount of pressure put on the doves. So that is the most important good news of the day.

As many of you know our company has grown tremendously over the years. We now have three fully operational lodges. One of the beautiful things about growing is there have been more opportunities to give back to the community. Each of our lodges acts independently in our efforts to give back. Our main focus has been with the local schools. Thanks to some nice shell bills, we have been able to donate significantly to the local schools. Specifically we helped build a new school and provided many electronic devices that help teach in the classes. These are small, rural schools that all of our bird boys attended as kids. We usually give our donations around Christmas time since the school year in Argentina starts in March. We already have some great ideas to donate for this December including a large joint donation among the 3 dove shooting lodges.

Now for next year we thought it might be a good idea to have the client’s participate in the program. Specifically we were thinking of the following. There must be tons of old electronic devices laying around the house. An old computer gathering dust in your house would be a dream for some families down here. An Ipad 1 that seems like a dinosaur to your kids is a Ferrari-like device to the humble kids in our area. I personally am donating my old Kindle that I never use any longer because I bought a newer device. So if you see something that is gathering dust, bring it on down!