Quail and Chevy Hunting

[Bruce Day]

Closing the season. 65 degrees today.

Look at these beauties the dogs found.

[Bruce Day]

Four in the bag.

[Dean Romig]

Quite a 'mixed bag' you got there Bruce.





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[Kenny Graft]

Bruce....I would like to buy the Red mid year.....SXS ohio

[Eric Eis]

What no quail......? :shock: I too like the red Vette..

[Dean Romig]

Left background looks to be a red '58 or '59 Vette. '58 - '62 are my favorite Vettes.





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[Richard White]

I'd be quite satisfied with the '57 Bel Air.

[Bill Murphy]

I must have missed a picture. Is this Bruce's garage?

[Mike Franzen]

Bill, I think his dogs found them in a barn somewhere

[Bruce Day]

65 degrees today.

We try to shoot only the males but we make a mistake once in a while.

The dogs like their DQ pup cups at the end of the day.

[Bruce Day]

We are hunting bobwhite quail. I understand the pictured Jaguar is a favorite bait of those hunting California Quail.

And for the classic 50's Ford lovers....

[Dean Romig]

Ford looks like a '55 "Vicki" with the 292 cid V-8. My Dad had a '56 with a 312.





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[Bruce Day]

Couple pheasant today, hard points and held well, one by the setter and one by the young pointer. Walked 8 miles yesterday, 8 1/2 today.

I see those pictures in Shooting Sportsman, Sporting Classics and those other high end magazines, and I know if I only bought those fancy English clothes and special hunting boots, I would be more successful. I want one of those mule pulled wagons to take me around the field instead of having to walk. But here I am in my Pointer brand jeans and my special hunting hat from the Miner's Club in Zortman, Montana.

Some years ago, we posted a picture of several of us around the back table at an old store in rural South Dakota. One of our blue blood Eastern society members here said that we were " crimson clad rustics cavorting on linoleum." Well, we ate lunch at the farmer's cafe today. There was no linoleum. It was tile.

And the sun sets on another good bird season out in fly over country.

[Dean Romig]

Pre-1900 shooting in "fly-over country."



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[Bruce Day]

Bert finds proof of a parallel universe. It's right there through the portal.

[Bruce Day]

Still quail season where the Dust Bowl began. Driving and looking around and resting the dogs for tomorrow.

We'll go up a red dirt road and turn left and we have hundreds of thousands of acres to hunt.

[Fred Preston]

Can you get Bert to quit admiring his appearance in the glass or water long enough to find birds?

[CraigThompson]

Well darn I was hoping to see some 67-69 Camaro's !

But that Jag convertible with I assume a V-12 under the bonnet doesn't look to bad !

[Bruce Day]

This has every option but the cement blocks. It may be available. I'll ax him.

[Eric Eis]

Bruce what area are you hunting in these photos? Weather doesn't look too bad for this time of year.

[Dean Romig]

I'll pass on that Camaro.... the passenger door latch doesn't seem to be working.






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[Bruce Day]

Great quail country but battled wind at 25 gusts to 45 and 41 degrees. Dogs couldn't get a scent line and when the birds did fly, they were at 50mph within a second or two. So no birds today, but that's hunting. But hey , its wild birds, my dogs, my choice in how to hunt and I kinda like that.

I'm going to ask the experts why I missed shots yesterday. Must have been something wrong with the gun.

Earlier in the season it was 6 coveys a day and 50 bird coveys. Now its the end of the season and the middle of winter. Not many even hunt this late.

About 4 we quit battling the wind and found a country bar, a beer and Merle Haggard and George Jones.

And if you don't like the Camaro , here are a few more oldies but goodies. Twenty years before those two trucks were made, folks piled all their belongings and their family in even more rickety trucks and headed west from here in the dustbowl to what they hoped was a better life in California.

[Dean Romig]

There's a Studebaker truck just like that one just down the road from me in a field behind a house. It's in pretty good shape too and it has been driven a few times in the last few years but it has no plates. The guy Will NOT sell it.






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[Jim Beilke]

Bruce, It's great to live in Fly Over Country. The only trouble we can see about 10 feet today. Your dust bowl country looks a lot better now that when they were trying to farm it.Jim

[CraigThompson]

This has every option but the cement blocks. It may be available. I'll ax him.

That's not in the 67-69 age range 😉

[Bruce Day]

The season runs for another 12 days but we have to get home.

A good day. Seven coveys of truly wild quail. Eight miles walking. Most coveys were about 10 birds, one was about 30.

So here is a photo of my quail gun, a unique Parker, at least the Parker records show only one made.

And finally my dogs both on point.

[Dean Romig]

Is that the CHE 20 with the 24" barrels Bruce? I remember lusting over that one at Pintail Point one year.





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[Bruce Day]

No, the CHE ( 1905) is a 20/26, SKBT, Turkish Star Damascus, PG, rondell panel engraving with single wood duck on floor plate, DT, IC and Full.

This is a DHE ( 1910) 20/24, CKBT, Titanic, 1/2PG, standard side panel and floor plate engraving, DT, IC and IC.

Both guns are original configurations and chokes. Both guns are understood to be unique because of details. There are a few other D 20/24's, but none with checkered butt indicated in any known records. Original checkered butt Parkers are in an unusual pattern and are rare until the late Remington Parker skeet guns. There are many non original stocks with checkered butts in the full coverage English style.

There was a comment about C grade engraving the other day on the forum. I differ with that. In my readings and studying many C's, I conclude:
1. Prior to 1900, almost all C's had deer or elk on the floor plate, setter and pointer on the side panels.
2. 1900-1905 . 75% had five pheasant floor plate , pointer and setter side panels. This was the period of rondell side panels, and 25% had that. When rondell side panels are found, there will be anything on the bottom and it is usually very well done. It is usually a single, could be a wood duck, mallard, deer, grouse, ruffed grouse, woodcock, dog, etc. There are a few B's and one known D with rondell side panels from this period. There is one known BH with double rondell side panels each side. These seem to be desired among collectors.
3. 1905-about 1925, pointer and setter side panels, five pheasants bottom. Rarely anything different. I saw one with a deer.
4. 1925 to end of production. pointer and setter side panels, anything on floor plate, usually one or two dogs, a duck, goose, grouse, etc. Usually quite well done, I think at least some by Runge. I have a Runge C with finely done dogs.

I have all eras of production, from top lever hammers to the last C in the records and I have made it a mission to inspect every one that I can. I did a presentation on C engraving at the last PGCA meeting in Louisville, complete with photos and guns. I am still learning.

[Dean Romig]

Bruce, your disagreement with what I said is well founded. You are truly a graduate student of the C-Grade Parkers and I respect your opinion and knowledge on the subject. I remember well the excellent talk you gave on C-Grade Parkers at the Annual Meeting we held in Louisville a few years ago. You have a very in-depth knowledge of your subject.






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[Bob Hayes]

Since this post was quail and chevy subject I thought I would post this vehicle we used today to do a little combat snipe hunting.Lots of rain and no drainage on ranch prompted me to use our work truck today.Entire ranch is wet now but snipe are there and season closes Monday.So we went and made it back in one piece.This is a GMC after todays activites but close enough for mud work.

[Bob Hayes]

Sorry pic didn't make it, here it is