Most upland game bird hunters need something to keep occupied between our hunting seasons. Preserve hunting is a poor substitute for hunting wild birds. What is needed is an opportunity to hunt wild birds over good dogs in our off season. Alberto Molina Gomez, an Argentinian hunting and fishing guide with a passion for pointing dogs and wing shooting for wild birds, has established Argentina Wing Shooting providing wing shooting opportunities during our summer months.

American Airlines has a comfortable, overnight flight from Miami with an early AM arrival in Buenos Aires. After a good rest, a bit of exploring and an excellent meal the next morning you board a domestic flight to Alberto's home town of Bahia Blanca. Alberto will meet his guests at the airport and drive the 100 hundred kilometers to his cabana in Sierra de la Ventana which will be the center of operations for the next few days. You will be hunting different areas; hills, plains, river bottoms, ocean side and diversity of game birds.

The Perdiz Chica is a mottled tan/brown bird which resembles an overgrown Pharaoh Quail. They whistle and run through the thin pasture cover and then take to the air with the same whirring sound of our Bob-White Quail. The little partridge will pop up out of the grass some 20-25 yards ahead of the dog, giving us a very respectable 35- 40 yard target. Fast rising, speedy birds, at a good distance; an excellent shooting challenge.

These pasture fields were generally surrounded by mounds of irrigation ditches and dense grasses. The Perdiz Coloradas, the Red Partridge of Argentina, inhabit these dense grasses. The Perdiz Coloradas has a distinct red wing band with a plover type beak. Fast and strong, these birds are a truly memorable game bird.

The dove shooting in Province of Buenos Aires of Argentina is very different than the flock busting cannonades for the White-winged Dove of Cordoba. You will hunt the Paloma Montessa, a dove 1/3 larger than our park pigeons, a very intelligent and a fast strong flyer. Stationed for maximum camouflage along the banks of a fast flowing stream (which by the way has a healthy population of Rainbow Trout) you will experience fast passing shoots; par excel lance. The White-winged Dove will drop when struck by only a few pellets but these sturdy Montessa are natures B-17's.

These river stations have the added advantage of presenting outstanding duck shooting for the Mallard sized Marcero and the Teal sized Barcino. These beautiful birds closely resemble the Blue Winged and Green Winged Teal in their coloration and markings. Later one can vary our technique to hunt Stuttgart style, with the doves diving into openings in evergreen stands.

Your days will be filled with memorable hunting, unbelievable "Tail Gate lunches" and four star evening meals, but your sharpest memories will be of the magnificent wing shooting and crouching canines of Argentina.