PHE 16 gauge 0 frame - what a grouse gun!

[Duckman]

Originally Posted by Mike Krol

Nope, Ben Wade, Denmark... Been my regular fishing pipe since I bought it in 1980, thought it added the right amount of Michael McIntosh flair to my meager photo composition skills .

Those are great photos Mike, don't sell yourself short. Also, give me a shout if you ever decide to remodel your kitchen. I don't have a 16 parker. Do have a smith and an A grade Fox though.
-plc-

[Harold Pickens]

Beautiful pictures--and now that grouse season is over in Ohio( ends today), I think I will re-read all my GBE books in order. My 78 yr old neighbor (looks 68 and is a good gunsmith with a machine shop in his basement) has a PH 20 that he got in trade for doing chores for a farmer when he was just a boy--he says that it was his first gun. I have hinted that the gu n needs to be used, but he doesn't appear to have any interest in selling.
The Old Hemlock line now resides in Monroe County, Ohio--just down the river from me. I hunted Monroe county for 2 straight days in great looking cover with 2 setters out, but moved only 1 bird in 2 days. Unfortunately, I decided to shoot and took the big cock bird with an old Fox Sterlingworth Co. 12 ga pin gun.

[chris dawe]

Love the gun and the pipe ...great stuff !!!

[C.O.B.]

Mike thats a great gun no doubt about it. Don't worry about what you paid for it as it really doesn't matter. Excellent books as well. Were you ever a member of the National Sporting Fraternity? Jim Rikhoff of Winchester Press started it and formed Amwell Press. I had their limited editions of GBE Grouse and Woodcock books that you have but sold them years ago for a gun safe

[Mike Krol]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Mike thats a great gun no doubt about it. Don't worry about what you paid for it as it really doesn't matter. Excellent books as well. Were you ever a member of the National Sporting Fraternity? Jim Rikhoff of Winchester Press started it and formed Amwell Press. I had their limited editions of GBE Grouse and Woodcock books that you have but sold them years ago for a gun safe

Yep, I was a NSFL member for a number of years and went on one of their hunts with Jim Rikhoff in New Brunswick for grouse and woodcock in 1981... Each night he would regale us with stories of Africa and other places, each with special well known people (like Gene Hill), all while drinking tumblers (and I mean water glass-sized) of scotch and lighting one cigarette off the butt of the previous one... He's my hero, hope he's still alive .

[C.O.B.]

I was a member of the NSFL from the very begining to the end. They produced some of the best books and I have quite a few from hunting the uplands to Africa. I went on several Quail hunts in TN with them. Jim could tell quite a story. I don't know if he's still alive or not, if he is thats one tough liver he has thats for sure.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Peter Clark

Those are great photos Mike, don't sell yourself short. Also, give me a shout if you ever decide to remodel your kitchen. I don't have a 16 parker. Do have a smith and an A grade Fox though.
-plc-

Dont't let him kid you, Mike takes some of the best composed hunting photos I have seen, maybe some day he will post some in the album area.

[Duckman]

I though he was pulling our collective legs.