Carribean Grouse

[edgarspencer]

I brought my copy of Foster's New England Grouse Shooting to Tortola with me. I was reading it on the beach when an Englishman and wife strolled by. He remarked that proper Grouse shooting was done in England. I said that may be but they don't have Parkers. I don't think he understood.

[Double Lab]

Does that surprise you? Don't they consider a sausage a "banger"?

[Richard Flanders]

Tortola? I had to look up a map to see where it is. Proper grouse shooting in England?... was he referring to the driven hunts where they shoot anything with fur or feathers that flies or runs by??

[OH Osthaus]

grouse shooting maybe

but proper grouse HUNTING is done in New England not old

[Double Lab]

That reminds me, I'll be in the Carribean next week. I think I'll take one of my Buckingham books and see what the Brits have to say about him.

[Dean Romig]

"Proper grouse shooting" eh? Who ever suggested we might be proper on this side of the pond?
Seems we taught them a thing or two about their "proper" military maneuvers sometime back...






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[chris dawe]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

I brought my copy of Foster's New England Grouse Shooting to Tortola with me. I was reading it on the beach when an Englishman and wife strolled by. He remarked that proper Grouse shooting was done in England. I said that may be but they don't have Parkers. I don't think he understood.

They may refer to it as the proper way, but when the upper class landed on the rock so many years ago, they had no problem taking Ptarmigan (the fraternal twin of the red grouse ) over dogs ,they wrote of the magnificent shooting to be had here on the colony,they wore guns out for chrissakes ....I grew up seeing the setters actually "set" birds they all did it then ,it was the way the dogs were bred in England from what I understand


I think having beaters push birds up over some of the places I hunt , would be the purest form of physical comedy !....not that far removed from picturing Mr.Spencer hove off on a beach in his finest cabana wear ,telling off a passing by Englishman !!!

[edgarspencer]

I wish I could find a book on the American Revolution and take it to the beach today.

[Kevin McCormack]

Edgar, if you can find it, get a copy of David Preston's 2015 masterpiece, "Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of The Monongahela and the road to Revolution." The single most impressive work I've seen yet on the struggle for the settlement of America. The details of his new reference discoveries are incredible; heretofore unexplored records in the US, Great Britain, France and Canada shed new light on how our country came to be and the amazing financial and logistical expense those countries were willing to expend to control it.

[chris dawe]

Make your own slipcover and slip it over the grouse book....SHEEESH ,think man !