What would you do with it?

[Double Lab]

Harold;
Unfortunately , Parker, the lab in my Avatar has passed also. He was an incredible pointing lab that pointed as well as any pointer/setter I have ever hunted over. Sadly he died at 9 yrs of age. Nothing got away form him I am now blessed with 2 labs that were from a rescue that have performed as well as he did, one of them points and holds and just loves finding birds. He learned this (I think) from hunting with my buddy's GSP. He actually backed the GSP. These animals are truly amazing but I have yet to try them on grouse. Hunting woodcock was very easy for them but grouse will really put them to the test. All it takes is birds to make a birddog. Lots of them. I just turned 63 last week so I'll work as long as I can take but I'll but more and more long weekends until I hang it up. Next year maybe we can meet up in Channing and show Rich which end of the cigar to light first.

[C.O.B.]

Daryl you light the end thats NOT in your mouth

[John Davis]

I'd saddle up my Tenn. walker and run a brace of pointers (or setters) through the south Georgia piney woods and along the fence rows in between. From 9 am till about noon we'd find 10 or so bevy of quail. Wouldn't bother with the singles. After a nice bit of lunch and a snooze, I'd hit it again around 2 pm and hunt till dusk. Another 10 bevy and it would be time to kick my feet up and sip a little Makers Mark. That's what I'd do. John Davis

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Daryl you light the end thats NOT in your mouth

OH yeah, now you tell me.

[Bruce Day]

A couple of us are planning to open the season in early September hunting sage grouse and sharptails along the Montana highline, then Nebraska sandhills sharptails and prairie chickens in late Sept. Ruffed grouse in northern Minnesota in Oct, pheasants in South Dakota in Nov, then more quail and pheasants in Kansas in Dec. Around Meriden , Kansas. Then close the season in Jan and Feb for quail in Arizona.

For those who think Meriden is in Conn, there is another in Kansas in wild quail country.


Some years back, I was hunting quail in Feb by Wheeler, Texas in the sandhills and thorn thickets. My buddy was a retired cardiologist, since gone, who hunted with a fine Purdey and a single pointer. We ran into a fellow from St Ansgar Iowa who had opened the season in Montana and worked his way south ahead of the snow, ending in southern Arizona. He had started with three 28ga Parker reproductions and had one remaining operable, the other two out with broken stocks. He had five Brittanies in a dog trailer, of them four were lamed up and he had one dog remaining. He was headed home to recuperate for next year.

I had remembered that plus a book written by Jim Fergus about a hunter's season long travels and thought it would be a fun thing to do. However, when I'm out for a week, its always nice to get back home.

[MarketHunter]

I guess I'm lucky, I own the 12 gauge Parker I would have ordered (#3 frame 34 inch DHE straight stock) and have used it (plus my former 32 inch one) to do about all the things I'd like to have done.

I suppose we all have our shooting / hunting dreams, but I really can't complain. Even in the modern day, I've done a lot of the same things the old timers did. Lived like a rich man on very little money, barely said sir to anybody, and nearly always done mostly as I pleased.

I've drank a lot of whiskey, smoked a lot of good cigars (and cheap ones as well), had good friends (some still living and some passed on), chased a lot or pretty girls (caught a few too), and done a power of hunting and fishing in between or sometimes during.

Life ain't so bad, even in 2013, it really ain't.


DLH

[Mills]

I would love to hunt ducks with a Parker 8 gauge. All in all though, I can't complain and have had some pretty good experiences outdoors.