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Unread 02-23-2018, 11:17 AM   #11
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A method to my madness for taking my wife to Boston for a Patriots game was the option to fly to Newfoundland.
Chris and his family treated like was a brother from the moment I got of the plane.
Great food and a few drinks. A wonderful Thanksgiving meal at Chris’s moms house.
Hunting was tough with the walking much different from the dry rough ground I am use to hunting. Naps on the tundra is like sleeping on a mattress if you get up where its dry. Unfortunately its also like walking on a wet mattress, except once in a while you can find yourself knee deep or ( up to your arm pits ) in a Bog hole. Walking 15 to 20 K each day on the tundra is a true work out that will test your stamina. Although pushing through the Willows can also test your endurance.
As all of us that have hunted most of our lives we realize that its not about the numbers, but the experience. Friends, dogs, and the camaraderie we share.
I was able to take some birds and experience the true Newfoundland.
Spent some time with Chris in his great shop, where Chris finished up my Remington DEO.
I hope some day to return and do some fishing for trout and a bucket list item to go cod fishing, something my father from Maine told me so many stories about, fishing for Cod with his uncle using handlines and a lead jig.
This trip was a bucket list item I will never forget.
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Unread 02-23-2018, 11:18 AM   #12
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Great story Chris.

Dean, I've been meaning to give this tick spray repellent for clothes a try. Permethrin for clothes and DEET for skin. We can't let those buggers spoil our fun.
http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/ind...hemselves.html
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Great story Chris.

Dean, I've been meaning to give this tick spray repellent for clothes a try. Permethrin for clothes and DEET for skin. We can't let those buggers spoil our fun.
http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/ind...hemselves.html
Yes, use the permethrin on your hunting cloths. I have been using it for years and have never had a tick on me. It really works.
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I can't use DEET - it makes me nauseous and gives me a headache.

I tip my hat to the old-timers who handlined for cod or any other big fish.
I once pulled a 30 lb. cod up from the bottom in 300 ft. of water off Gloucester MA. with a boat rod and it took me twenty minutes to do it... then I had to rest for almost as long.





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Seems like it was a great adventure.
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Chris how is the population of Woodland Caribou? I have heard reports that the population is down drastically and the hunting miserable. A Woodland Caribou is a bucket list hunt for me.
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Chris, how far is 15K to 20K? Phil, how did you get the Remington to the Dawe shop? Can you bring pre 1898 guns into Canada or ship them without papers or other difficulty?
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Chris how is the population of Woodland Caribou? I have heard reports that the population is down drastically and the hunting miserable. A Woodland Caribou is a bucket list hunt for me.
Rich ,in a word ...desperate

Growing up I only had to go 1 /2 an hour from my house to see a trophy Stag ,Iv'e eaten lunch ,one hand on a sandwich the other on the dogs collar in the middle osf a herd of 100 ....now its a 2 day expedition without a helicopter ....gross mismanagement , opportunities are there but you'll work for them ...don't know if well ever see it come back to what it was .

Bill,9 to 12 miles,I average around 30 (18 miles ) on a good day ...its not the distance its the terrain , we've had mainlanders come here on several occasions - avid bird hunters,walk 300 feet from the pick up and call it quits ,some places are easier than others no doubt but you go where the birds are-I had no reservations about Phil anyone who knows him knows he can walk .... there's not a Newfoundland Ptarmigan hunter alive who cant walk like a S.O.B.

Phils gun was a major process,until the border makes things easier its really not worthwhile and something I can seriously entertain
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I'm really disappointed because I have a couple of pre-1898 guns that demand the kind of attention that Chris can give them. My 1893 World's Fair Parker BHE would love to have Chris's work done on it, a complete restock without any work on the forend.
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So why don't you just send your guns to Chris - what's to be disappointed about?





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