Fox Collectors

I'm not sure they could foresee the returning GI's would leave the traditional side by side for autos and pumps

Predictions are very hard, especially about the future – Niels Bohr (Danish physicist )

didn't know a Bentley was that unreliable

but yes, I like it

I have seen it once before

hi Mike

welcome to the asylum -

Jeff S wrote:Patrick McManus wrote a book about hunting, fishing and camping titled “A Fine and Pleasant Misery”.

also among his several books was one entitled

"Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing"

woodcock are polite enough to hold for the dog and twitter up in front of you-they may go for the tops or cork screw the saplings - i almost always see a woodcock fold Grouse explode when they feel ready (and when you are not)- in front - to the side - behind, in a thunderous flush - just swing thro...

leave it to Steve to clear up the meaning


but he does say 144 FLUSHES not birds - if you figure 2 to 3 flushes per bird following up on initial contacts

that is still around 20 individual birds a day - grand hunting in anyone's book any day

had the new pup out for a couple short runs

the covers are still quite thick with leaves and its been warm - mid 60's and dry -
so no sightings of the mythical bird yet

Nice looking pup for sure. Great about the retrieving. Lots of setters out there don't have much love for that these days. PS. Is Tweed a English setter or a Llew? He looks a lot like some of the Llew's I see out of New Mexico from Jornada Kennels. Well I would argue a Llewellin is an English sette...

of sorts Grouse and woodcock open next Thursday - it has been a slow summer for training - hot and dry, and the shooting preserve i used to belong to to train dogs went out of business and for some reason there has been no pigeons available to trap around here. Even the grain elevators down the road...

going deeper down the rabbit hole Steve??

I see you had some response on the Longrifle forum

https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/in ... #msg619955

still have the one my grandfather gave me a little weak in the spring -now the only injury to anyone i remember was a kid from up in the hollow- he somehow fired his BB gun while he had his hand over the muzzle - he never told his parents. I remember him sitting on the school bus long after it heale...

Just for Thursday

Weatherby wrote:The research came back.
It was made for the Duke of Leeds.

So much for shooting it.

did he maintain trigger rights to it ???