Grouse and Woodcock Books

[Harold Pickens]

Edgar
Dos XX's should have chose you for their" most interesting man in the world" advertising campaign. Now if you tell me you also play clasical guitar, I will bow down in awe. I was going to say I would be your gun bearer at Hausmann's, but you would probably learn to play in that amount of time.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Now if you tell me you also play classical guitar, I will bow down in awe.

No, Harold, I don't. However I started playing the bagpipes at age 10, and played for many years till the smoking pipe ruined that. My son plays them, as well as the dobro.

[OH Osthaus]

ahh- love the pipes - listened to a young man who was a master on Cape Breton last fall,

and one of my favorite reenacting memories was getting up early in a foggy camp and hearing them in the distance, slowly a young kilted highlander materialized from the fog and passed by me into the haze once more


for those who do not appreciate them - join the crowd


"Definition of a 'gentleman' - someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't," - Ronnie Corbett.

"The Irish invented the bagpipes as a joke and gave them to the Scottish, they still haven't found out," - Denis Leary.

"I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig." - Alfred Hitchcock

[Dean Romig]

Good ones Rick... I mean really good ones!

[edgarspencer]

ha.......ha.......ha.......

[Jack Kuzepski]

Dean,

I found a few more for your list that contain both woodcock and grouse hunting. "Upland Tales" is edited by Worth Matthewson but is a compilation of stories by Edwin Sandys and others written in the late 1880's to about 1910. "Eastern Upland Shooting" by Charles Norris is another, originally written in the 1930's (I think) there was a Country Sport press reprint. And lastly is one I just received 2 days ago; "Kriders Sporting Anecdotes" an 1853 compilation of experiences by John Krider. Just started reading it but so far so good. He was a big gun dealer in Philadelphia, there is even an advertisement for his wares in the back of the book.

This thread should really be a sticky!!

Jack Kuzepski

[Mills]

Countrysport put out an anthology on grouse hunting - Bare November Days - and an anthology on woodcock hunting - Come October and both are good

[Dean Romig]

Jack, Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't read "Upland Tales" by Sandys and others and I've never even heard of "Krider's Sporting Anecdotes" but I have Norris' book "Eastern Upland Shooting" and enjoyed reading it.

[Dean Romig]

Mills, I have both of those titles - Thanks.

[Harold Pickens]

I picked up a couple of books at the Southern. A copy of Partridge Shortnin' and GBE's book on the Blackwater/Canaan. It was my birthday(61), so I treated myself. Havent had a chance to even look at them yet.