Fox Collectors

Indeed it does! - The place should have been named "La Strange" motel. Looks and atmosphere would have been a perfect set for a Toby Hooper movie! A few vagabond characters I suspect were semi-permanent residents (e.g., welfare recipients) wandered around and a couple of them spoke a forei...

Climate change appears to have affected all types of upland and waterfowl hunting. Early reports from members and friends gone to the upper midwest (WI, MI) as well as far northern New England (ME, NH, VT) in the past few weeks relate an abundance of "summer ducks" (per Craig's report) but...

Great! My favorite Fox bird-getter is a little like yours in reverse - a 16 ga. SKUGG 26" STGP choked .005 & .011. Perfect for close-quarter flushes of grouse or woodcock! Kevin

I encountered a very scary approximation of your situation years ago while hunting an impounded public hunting area where the water level was controlled by two large horizontal flood gates which restricted or admitted the incoming & outgoing tides from the adjacent bay according to the desired w...

Yeah, Jeff - the Widgeon are great poachers of swan - especially in shallow (5 ft. or less) water in a short grass marsh. When I leaned this from one of my most revered duck hunting gurus, I made my own swan decoys by cutting the necks of a standard Carry Lite Canada goose decoy about half way up th...

Thanks for the beautiful pictures! The "gun and bird" photo is poetic, the dogs are "lets go!! and the Northern Lights shot is wonderful. I got to see a little sliver of them in Canada on a duck hunting trip a few years ago - very impressive! Kevin

Well done, Jeff! Widgeon are without a doubt one of my favorite ducks. Back in the early 1980s when MD had the point system in effect for calculating the daily bag, Widgeon were a 10-point duck and helped fill out many our daily bags; we would pass up the high-point birds (Pintail, Blackduck and fem...

Will be tuning up (maybe this weekend) with my 16 ga. SKUGG 26-incher for NY grouse and our Oct. 26 opening in MD for woodcock. It sounds like they are on the move in the NE a little earlier than usual, I think in response to all the disturbances from the hurricanes and two recent nor'easters. Kevin

For doves and as a warm up for later duck shooting, I always relied on the 100-ft. tower at our local club. You could stand facing it for incomers, beside it for pass shooting by backing WAY up, and under it for going away shots overhead. After trying all the positions and 3 or 4 boxes of shells, yo...

Improved Cylinder and Full. Kevin

Go to our home page and look under Grades for information; go to Blue Book of Gun Values for approximate values per age and gondition. Also check out Guns International. Kevin

PS - Did you ever get the screw out??

When we first started serious Canada goose hunting it was out of field pits primarily and very rarely out of a water blind. This would have been c. 1967. We bought a couple of boxes of these exact loads, certain they would be the ultimate for pass shooting the big honkers. They worked, but were brut...

Took the Amish Gun (32" 20 ga. A Grade SG SFE) out for the dove opener but wound up never firing a shot. The only dove that came near me was way too close to shoot (c. 10 ft.). Not many birds moving; high gun for a party of c. 20 hunters was 5 birds. It was just great to be out again on a nice ...

What Frank said - I attended Sandanona for the years the VC was held there as a vendor (PGCA booth) when I was into collecting and shooting Parkers. Loved the area, the location, the people and the events. You really felt you were a part of something worthwhile. The ancillary attractions made for gr...