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Originally Posted by Daniel G Rainey
A friend's father once told me that when he was growing up in Macon Mississippi that every Jan. Marshall Field and a group of his friends would get on the train with guns, cases of shells, birds dogs and head south where they rented the entire Macon Hotel.They send a man ahead of them line places to hunt and to take of everything they needed.As he remembered they stayed three to four weeks and bird hunted. Gone are the days.
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Nice story. I heard that he was a big sportsman and I seem to recall he shot Parker(s)? No surprise there. Field died in 1906. I hope his guns are safe & sound in someone's collection. Sometimes I think I was born 100 years too late...
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