Fox Collectors

Great pics Spyder! Wish I had a similar tableau to post but we are still butt deep in ice crusted snow here in NOVA land! Kevin

Spyder, we used BDHS and shot with MIke Boyd and son Lamar along with an apprentice guide the first trip, then with Mike and Lamar for the second trip. They are great people and really "lean into it." They have added a second house to act as another resident lodge; very modern and comforta...

I had to pop another Norvasc after rereading this post. Kevin

When I think of Beaver Dam, I picture a Fall day. I wonder what it’s like in January? Both of my trips were in late January; first one cold c. 30 -40 degrees but crystal clear with moderate wind. Second trip was much colder, c. 20s daytime with teens at night and ice capades before dawn setting and...

Should be about the last few days of the season in MS for the big ducks at Beaver Dam. Any one there now? Any one going before its over for this year? Been twice; need to go again before I die. One of the Baptismal Fonts of waterfowling! Kevin

I have a 28” Skeeter, actually it has 4 different cards and it was ordered for “Office Sample” I have seen 3 other short barreled Vent rib guns. They are scarce. There are a number of examples of multiple carded guns - I guess some people couldn't make up their minds what they really wanted until i...

I have only seen one 12 ga. Trap AE? VR and one 20 ga. VR SKEET, both carded exactly to specs. Had to sit down and smoke a fine imported cigar on each occasion. Kevin

Greatest grouse gun ever designed and built: Savage/Fox Utica Sterlingworth (aka "Ute Sterly") pictured here 16 ga. 26" SG SFE Savage SK|CYL - IC (.006\.011) chokes. Light, fast handling, and very deadly! Kevin

Wow Daryl; great memory - that was a WHILE ago! Roger, if you ever go back there look in the woods for a flexible soft plastic map sleeve with a USGS topo map in it - I carried it for 3 or 4 years hunting in the various areas there and made notes each time I encountered a woodcock, marking if it was...

Roger, you have put the sap on my head several times with your renditions of woodcock hunts in Jersey, but this time you zeroed out on one of my home turfs! If you were hunting where I"m sure you were (travel time & distance, trails etc.) then you were there exactly when I had gone in past ...

Great post, dog and gun! Walter is a dog I could hunt with; his bearing says it all. Agree with Daryl C on the spreader loads - when I reloaded a lot years ago I fooled around with some real killers using M and F choked guns. Best combo I ever hit on was very light 12 ga. 7/8 oz. # 7.5, 8s and 9s fo...

Great post and pic Spyder, were you hunting a bank blind (dug into the bank from the looks of the pic background)? Nice rig but no wonder a lot of them eluded you; clear skies and a "long reach" for them to scope out your decoys. Pintails always fascinated me in the way they approach a rig...

BirdHuntMuch.jpg The attached photos show the aftermath of the past 25 years or so plowing into and through some of our more demanding grouse, woodcock and quail covers. The excellent Ecco boots I inherited from my son, who found some kind of fault (e.g., color, style, etc.) with them and gave them...

The attached photos show the aftermath of the past 25 years or so plowing into and through some of our more demanding grouse, woodcock and quail covers. The excellent Ecco boots I inherited from my son, who found some kind of fault (e.g., color, style, etc.) with them and gave them to me shortly aft...

Awesome package of provenance, Bill, and what a gun! Gems like this are functioning an early American "auto revival" of entry level and especially graded guns from Remington, Browning, Marlin and Savage that are exploding in "prices realized" at better auctions. Kevin