|
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
03-17-2026, 04:09 PM
|
#23 | ||||||
|
I’m sorry we missed you Scott!
.
__________________
"I'm a Setter man. Not because I think they're better than the other breeds, but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture." George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
 |
 |
 |
| The Following User Says Thank You to Dean Romig For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-17-2026, 04:51 PM
|
#24 | ||||||
|
That is quite a display and quite an enviable group to be a part of. 28 day!
__________________
A Dog, A Gun, and Time enough! George Bird Evans |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Rick Roemer For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-17-2026, 07:24 PM
|
#25 | ||||||
|
RBL-28 30-inch mod & full --
RBL-28 Left Side.JPG First rooster with it back in 2008 -- 02. First Rooster with RBL-28 31 Oct 08.JPG |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 16 Users Say Thank You to Dave Noreen For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-18-2026, 07:24 AM
|
#26 | ||||||
|
I also have an RBL 28, but can't locate a photo. Here are a few others from the safe. Two other AyAs, including a Number 2 are also not present.
Below are my John Dickson and AyA #453. The Dickson was the gun I used almost exclusively for many years and which has taken the vast majority of my birds from days when we had birds. It's a 1930s gun, and Jack Rowe told me he knew one of the workers whose mark appears on the gun. The AyA was a stand-in gun that I used after I broke the stock of the Dickson (the stock you see is a Jack Rowe made replacement). I had visited Mr. Rowe in Enid, OK the prior year to have a dent removed from the right barrel of the Dickson (slipped on an icy bluff while grouse hunting in NE Iowa). When Jack saw the broken stock he admonished me, "You shouldn't be allowed to have this little gun!" He was probably right.  This thread has produced some great stuff. Thanks to those who have posted...and keep 'em coming. I'm still searching for a photo of my DHE.
__________________
"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Garry L Gordon For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-18-2026, 07:40 AM
|
#27 | ||||||
|
Not the best photo, but the first I could find. An early 1920s DHE. It has tight chokes...and tenderizes some of the centered birds.
 (But, I'm not complaining!)
__________________
"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to Garry L Gordon For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-18-2026, 08:29 AM
|
#28 | ||||||
|
Here is a DH 28ga. with a 26" damascus barrels. Always a treat to shoot clays or hunt with...
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 14 Users Say Thank You to Jay Oliver For Your Post: |
|
|
|
03-18-2026, 08:40 AM
|
#29 | ||||||
|
Jay, did you buy that beauty from Bill Hadfield?
I loved that gun but couldn’t afford it .
__________________
"I'm a Setter man. Not because I think they're better than the other breeds, but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture." George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-18-2026, 08:52 AM
|
#30 | ||||||
|
Jay that's a stunner...
__________________
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we work on natural stupidity |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to Andrew Sacco For Your Post: |
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
