It's nice when a plan falls together!

I was looking at the Parker .410 that was owned by Connecticut lieutenant governor Roy Wilcox. It was one of the first six made, all ordered together and used extensively at my club, where he was a 50+ year member. His hunting partner was Charlie Parker Jr (the only reason that batch was made) and the upland game back then was wild quail. In Connecticut! If someone here got it, I have some club history on it. The Hammonassett Fishing Association in Madison, CT. I was willing to go to 35-40K to return it to its original happy hunting ground. I was stunned how fast it went past 100K.

I don't know where it's going, Steve, but it's been right here in CT all along. Pains me to say, only 10 miles away.

[QUOTE=Bill Murphy;445031]OK, Craig, here goes. A.J. and I had a long relationship that involved fooling with guns, drinking bourbon, and freeloading at some friends' Eastern Shore Dorcester County RSA. A.J.'s dad and his friends were serious Potomac River waterfowlers, headquartered below Washington D.C. at Fort Washington, Maryland where Henry Bartholomew, "Doc" and Nash Buckingham hunted canvasbacks. A.J.'s dad and his McGaw spread were discussed in a Decoy magazine article a few years ago. When we were in his basement recreation room, having an Ezra Brooks, we were a room away from an overflowing closet full of McGaw canvasbacks, and another room full of his extensive working gun collection. What a life we live.[/QUOT E]

Your a lucky man to have participated in the last days of the Susquehanna flats golden era of hunting. How sad it is that a once meca is now just a shadow of it's by gone days. We only have the wooden decoys to remind us of what was once was.