It’s a Good Day When.......

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Tom, you really should try it one time - you owe it to yourself. Just unadulterated woodcock breasts sauteed in butter. But don’t overcook them!

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I'll give it a try Dean. I'll just split the bird in half along the backbone and sauté the halves, legs and skin attached.

[Dean Romig]

Have it your way Tom, but it's just not the same... you'll overcook it that way.





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[mobirdhunter]

Really enjoyed the photos...especially the "dog tired" one!

Sometimes I cannot believe the bond between hunter and dog. It's an incredible thing to behold (even from your lap). You are a lucky man.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Have it your way Tom, but it's just not the same... you'll overcook it that way.

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I have never skinned a bird in my life since I started hunting at 13 years old. Good old gramps told me a person who skins a bird doesn't deserve to eat it. But just for you Dean, I am going to pop the breasts from some woodcock and do it your way. I wouldn't do it for anyone else Dean. Gramps will be rolling in his grave and I'll probably be shaking too hard to pop the breasts, but I'll do it.

[Dean Romig]

And just for you Tom, I’ll pluck one of mine and roast it your way. Please give me your cooking instructions so I can enjoy it the same way you do.





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[Dean Romig]

Garry - we really do have a special bond. She is devoted to me... and I to her. She’s a PITA sometimes but we overlook her transgressions.





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[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

She’s a PITA sometimes but we overlook her transgressions..

As she does yours.

[Opening Day]

Dean, when you said camp, that is not what I was expecting to see Guess you better not come to my camp, no running water, woodstove heat, gas lights ! Beautiful place

[Dean Romig]

Eric - we have a Vermont Castings "Resolute" wood stove, an outhouse just off the picture to the left, and the running water is disconnected the first time Tom sees frost on the field in the morning. It doesn't have many creature comforts but it's very comfortable when we come in from beating ourselves up chasing birds. Oh, and we do have electricity in the new camp.

Remembering the old camp that we hunted from for forty-some years, the new camp is like the Taj Mahal... and it does look a lot nicer too.





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[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Eric - we have a Vermont Castings "Resolute" wood stove, an outhouse just off the picture to the left, and the running water is disconnected the first time Tom sees frost on the field in the morning. It doesn't have many creature comforts but it's very comfortable when we come in from beating ourselves up chasing birds.

Remembering the old camp that we hunted from for forty-some years, the new camp is like the Taj Mahal... and it does look a lot nicer too.

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The Vermont Castings stoves are the prettiest ever built. Back in the day I used to visit the original factory in Randolph, Vermont. I became friendly with Duncan Symm who designed all the stoves, of which the Resolute was one. It was the smallest in the line. He showed me the mahogany templates he carved to make the original molds. They were beautiful. He designed the stoves using early American furniture as a guide. All the stoves were named after trans Atlantic sailing ships.