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I prefer some of his other works but it does have an interesting section on his love of grouse hunting while he was exiled in Pennsylvania.
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But I traveled to PA several years for a week each year to do the bear or deer season with some friends I had made in an Eastern Shore Maryland Sika Deer camp . And actually PA isn't so bad for a hunting trip each year . I even lived up there for a few months one year . But I gotta admit it was wonderful to return to Virginia . |
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I still wanna go to the area of SC Rutledge was from and kill a whitetail of some description with one of my 12 gauge Parkers shooting handloaded buckshot during a man or dog drive . Don't care if it's a yearling doe or a bruiser buck or anything in between .
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08-31-2015, 10:20 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Unfortunately, dog drives are a dying tradition even in coastal Carolina. They still exist, but are rare. If you ever get a chance to go to Hampton Plantation you can see the descendants of the deer he hunted on the grounds.........tracks are everywhere.
BTW, Rutledge considered himself exiled in Penn. He referenced it several times. He was always homesick. |
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08-31-2015, 10:26 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Rutledges writings of Pennsylvania are underrated.
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08-31-2015, 10:28 PM | #8 | ||||||
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He has some very nice articles in home and Southern Heartland about grouse or pheasant hunting in Pa.
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08-31-2015, 10:33 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I need to get that book. The thing I would kill for is one of his turkey calls
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08-31-2015, 11:48 PM | #10 | ||||||
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I think it would be kinda neat to kill deer/turkey and or quail around Georgetown SC like Rutledge did . Also think it would be cool to kill quail and dove in one of John Baileys places in was it Alabama or Mississippi . And finally to kill mallards on one of the old Arkansas duck clubs that Buckingham and BoWhoop prowled !
Might as well add Coues Whitetail in Sonora where O'Conner hunted as well ! |
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