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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:35 pm |
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A while back there was a post about Parker art. This is a painting by Ohio artist Donald Bocela. Is that Destry's hat?
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:45 pm |
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| Bill, how recently was that painting done?
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:50 pm |
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Dean,
I bought it maybe 10 to 15 years ago.
Bill
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John Dallas
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:53 pm |
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| Must admit that I've never personally experienced the maloderous vapors which apparently eminate from his chapeau, but it does appear that one of the ducks has begun to swoon
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 02:06 pm |
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John.
You are Bad!!!! Having never experienced the good Captains hat it is hard to imagine. Is it possible you could give us a "It smells Like line" But really how bad can it be?
Bill
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 02:08 pm |
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Anyone with personal Experience with this duck swooning Hat?
Bill
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 02:38 pm |
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When we are in some duck shack together and bedtime comes, I just politely ask Destry's Hat if it would sleep outside. It usually just shrugs, shakes itself and then waddles to the door. You open the door and let it out and it sleeps on the mat... Sometimes when it's really cold out, I don't have the heart to do it and let it just sleep by the door...It's actually a pretty considerate old hat. Destry ought to treat it better...
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 02:59 pm |
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Gentlemen;
You have never had a hat experience until you encounter Destry's prized chapeau, plus Destry's BS that accompanies it, rivals Apple Jack's long never ending stories. He even puts buzzard feathers in them for a little extra odor and decoration.
Destry does have some decent hats but it takes an act of Congress and St Andrews Society to get him to show up wearing one.
This all based on my experience ala the Goliath and hat.
Roger
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Bill Murphy
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 03:12 pm |
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| My Dad's Jones hat sits on the top of the Model 12 safe. I have worn it, but it is now way too small for my enormohead. One of these days, I will show it to Destry and pose for pictures with him, both of us wearing the hats. The last picture I have with me wearing the "hat" is in 1973. I am sitting on the tailgate of my 1972 two wheel drive Suburban, my English Pointer, Ranger, sniffing two cock ringnecks, my Model 21 field grade cradled in my lap. I traded the Model 21 for a Parker Single in March of the following year, but as least I still have the hat, and the Parker.
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 04:40 pm |
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Bill,
I must have run onto that guy at a duck camp somewhere and he snapped a quick picture of "Hat" so he could work from it later.
Don,
You're actually one of "Hat's" favorite people, he talks about you all the time. He's resting quietly in the closet right at the moment but as soon as the first cool breeze of fall comes along he'll be whining at the door to be let out to play again. I promised him I'd do my best to take him back to Argentina again in July, I hope I don't disappoint the old fella. He's getting along in years and I don't know how many seasons he's got left in him.
Roger,
"Hat" doesn't like you but I still say nice things about you to him.
Murphy,
We should definitely get them together to visit sometime. Yours is older than mine, I'm sure he's got some great stories to tell.
Regards,
Destry and "Hat"
P.S. You can see a picture of him in younger days on the recent hunting photos thread. In the picture of Dad, Grandpa, and I, he's only about 2 or 3 years old. I've come to view him almost as Dorian Gray viewed his portrait. If I'd ever lose him I'd fear for my own sporting life......
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 04:57 pm |
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I could see the terror in his little brim during the long hard boat ride up into the gray, wide St. Lawrence in October. Had he been blown off his copious perch that would been the end of the poor fellow... many a chapeau has seen his end on that trip...
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 05:00 pm |
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He's been in some tough spots before, though that one was particularly "sporty" I will agree. He likes the sinkbox shooting, he's not stuck in a blind and can look all around.
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