Anyone read Archibald Rutledge's Bird Dog Days Wing shooting ways?

King Cobb · 08-31-2015, 09:02 PM

Just curious as I am working my way through Rutledge and Buckingham books I haven't read yet and I have come upon this one. It is actually one of Casada's collections of his writtings, but it appears to be rarer than the rest of Jim's work as it is quite a bit pricier.

Just curious if anyone had read it and could recommend it or not. I have plenty of other books I can go with by these 2 authors, but this one has piqued my interest.

Mills · 08-31-2015, 09:06 PM

I don't have that one but it is probably good. America's Greatest Gamebird is great and should be in every turkey hunter's library

Charles Matthews · 08-31-2015, 09:51 PM

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.

6pt-Sika · 08-31-2015, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Charles Matthews

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.

You obviousely feel there is no place like South Carolina and I'm the same way about the Old Dominion !

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 .

6pt-Sika · 08-31-2015, 10:00 PM

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 .

Charles Matthews · 08-31-2015, 10:20 PM

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.

Mills · 08-31-2015, 10:26 PM

Rutledges writings of Pennsylvania are underrated.

King Cobb · 08-31-2015, 10:28 PM

He has some very nice articles in home and Southern Heartland about grouse or pheasant hunting in Pa.

Mills · 08-31-2015, 10:33 PM

I need to get that book. The thing I would kill for is one of his turkey calls

6pt-Sika · 08-31-2015, 11:48 PM

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 !