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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 02:12 am |
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Gentlemen,
In your opinion where would your dream place to hunt, Quail, Duck, Goose, Grouse, Pheasant, Chickens and Turkeys. Places like Beaver dam or whatever famous clubs, plantations or ranches. I am looking for that classic place.
Bill
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 02:46 am |
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Bill, I think a "classic" shooting destination is a place you may never have heard of or has never been written of but one you find for yourself and enjoy a little success (however you measure it) and keep going back to. It becomes a "classic" because we put in our time and become, over the years, very intimate with the seasons, the changes and the things that don't change from one year to the next. You bring a friend along (blindfolded at first) and share it with him or her. You create memories of both the good times and those not so good but you've been there through it all and in the long run that place has been good to you; has shared with you a few secrets; has given up some of it's own and has called you back season after season, year after year until it is a part of you. . . you might say that place is "in your blood" for certainly your blood and sweat are in that place. Beaverdam and those fabled, moss-draped quail plantations are, very unfortunately, 'other peoples places' that they have put their own blood and sweat into and long ago wrote of those places while they were still in their heyday. But those days are gone. Beaverdam doesn't see the ducks it once did and it is pretty darned hard to find a purely wild covey of quail these days. I'm working out the kinks of a few "classic destinations" and those places are still damp with my own blood and sweat and, I don't mind telling you, a fair amount of tears but there's no place else I would rather be - and if I'm real lucky I might die there. 
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 02:55 am |
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Dean,
The question is that place. Tinkhampton, Beaverdam. I am looking I guess maybe for that place that you read about by one of the Classic Authors that you always dreamed about going too. I know nothing is the same as it once was. But to dream of hunting where Haviloh, Nash, Corey, Burton, or Gene described, that place.
Bill
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 03:10 am |
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Bill, I think I know exactly what you mean. I think I'm going there someday too. To That place 
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 03:13 am |
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Dean,
Alas we will meet under the best of times.
Bill
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 02:42 pm |
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james w van blaricum,III
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 03:06 pm |
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Bill: Sounds like Camelot, i.e. Tinkhamtown. I went back and started reading Cories book starting with Tinkhamtown first. I use to have this hunting lease that I was able to take all of the game e xcept grouse, seems like there is always one species missing. Rereading Tinkhamtown actually brought nostalgic tears to my eyes..
Van
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