Carribean Grouse

[edgarspencer]

I brought my copy of Foster's New England Grouse Shooting to Tortola with me. I was reading it on the beach when an Englishman and wife strolled by. He remarked that proper Grouse shooting was done in England. I said that may be but they don't have Parkers. I don't think he understood.

[Daryl Corona]

Does that surprise you? Don't they consider a sausage a "banger"?

[Richard Flanders]

Tortola? I had to look up a map to see where it is. Proper grouse shooting in England?... was he referring to the driven hunts where they shoot anything with fur or feathers that flies or runs by??

[Rick Losey]

grouse shooting maybe

but proper grouse HUNTING is done in New England not old

[Daryl Corona]

That reminds me, I'll be in the Carribean next week. I think I'll take one of my Buckingham books and see what the Brits have to say about him.

[Dean Romig]

"Proper grouse shooting" eh? Who ever suggested we might be proper on this side of the pond?
Seems we taught them a thing or two about their "proper" military maneuvers sometime back...






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[chris dawe]

I brought my copy of Foster's New England Grouse Shooting to Tortola with me. I was reading it on the beach when an Englishman and wife strolled by. He remarked that proper Grouse shooting was done in England. I said that may be but they don't have Parkers. I don't think he understood.

They may refer to it as the proper way, but when the upper class landed on the rock so many years ago, they had no problem taking Ptarmigan (the fraternal twin of the red grouse ) over dogs ,they wrote of the magnificent shooting to be had here on the colony,they wore guns out for chrissakes ....I grew up seeing the setters actually "set" birds they all did it then ,it was the way the dogs were bred in England from what I understand


I think having beaters push birds up over some of the places I hunt , would be the purest form of physical comedy !....not that far removed from picturing Mr.Spencer hove off on a beach in his finest cabana wear ,telling off a passing by Englishman !!!

[edgarspencer]

I wish I could find a book on the American Revolution and take it to the beach today.

[Kevin McCormack]

Edgar, if you can find it, get a copy of David Preston's 2015 masterpiece, "Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of The Monongahela and the road to Revolution." The single most impressive work I've seen yet on the struggle for the settlement of America. The details of his new reference discoveries are incredible; heretofore unexplored records in the US, Great Britain, France and Canada shed new light on how our country came to be and the amazing financial and logistical expense those countries were willing to expend to control it.

[chris dawe]

Make your own slipcover and slip it over the grouse book....SHEEESH ,think man !

[edgarspencer]

That's clever,Chris. As I recall, there were several respectable magazines of the same size as Playboy, back in my school days.

Kevin, I have a pretty short attention span. I had to come back to your post twice before I got the whole title.
Island time, being what it is, if I ordered a copy today, it might be here by the new year.

[chris dawe]

\\\\That's clever,Chris. As I recall, there were several respectable magazines of the same size as Playboy, back in my school days. ////


I know ,I know ,and you did too ...but you just forgot .

I got the blame for my older brothers stash I was likely 10 at the time - he was 16 ,I got a noble arse burn from that ...Mom never questioned the fact that they had to be mine ,not my angelic teenage brothers ...I never had a clue what they were until that point ,Mom waving them in my face before the smackdown.....I was still playing with Gi Joe's up until dear old Mom inadvertently showed me the "bird's and bee's"!!!!!

Damn brother , never did own up to it

[George M. Purtill]

Tortola????????
Charlie and I are heading over to your house today to clean out your basement.

[Rick Losey]

speaking of New England Grouse Shooting

i received an email from Wild River Press this morning

http://www.newenglandgrouseshooting.com/

a nice anniversary reprint - with a little extra booklet on his "little gun"

[Dean Romig]

I've been contemplating that for about three weeks now.
I'm trying to justify it... I have a first printing as well as the 1970 reprint. The only thing that attracts me is the bonus booklet... so I think I will order it.






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[Rick Losey]

I've been contemplating that for about three weeks now.
I'm trying to justify it... I have a first printing as well as the 1970 reprint. The only thing that attracts me is the bonus booklet... so I think I will order it.


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keep the set going :rotf:

[Dean Romig]

When I was allowed entry into the main kennel house / office at the Glen Rock Kennels where Skeet was developed I climbed up into the low attic where a bunch of old junk was stored... I almost half-expected to find Foster's .410 AHE all dusty and buried under some old boards. I spent quite a while looking through that junk but at last succumbed to the fact there was nothing of value there, other than the chestnut dog boxes.

WHF is one of the most, possibly 'the' most (arguably) celebrated figure in American Upland Sporting history.

Having that 20 ga. DHE skeet gun "thrust" into my hands was somewhat akin to finding a 'holy grail' with documentation that the owner won his class at the Glen Rock skeet field.
I have yet to find out who the other two winners were who shot with him that day... like who could have been the 28 gauge winner...:eek:






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[King Brown]

A real conversation starter in London pubs, when asked where I'm from and what I do, is to say accurately among many other things I'm a trapper from the north woods, and in my younger days of muscle and exercised sinews, to venture in those lively east-London Irish pubs that the Irish were traitors to the Commonwealth. The regulars caught on well before the bartender yelled "Time, gentlemen" but they were always occasions of great fun for all of us---mostly. Rarely have I found what we call on this side a "typical Englishman." Members may find interesting Franklin's imperial past before ridding himself all of it for American independence in "Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father."

[edgarspencer]

Tortola????????
Charlie and I are heading over to your house today to clean out your basement.

Lets see how good the new security system works. That is, when the live in pet minder isn't there.

[edgarspencer]

speaking of New England Grouse Shooting

i received an email from Wild River Press this morning

http://www.newenglandgrouseshooting.com/

a nice anniversary reprint - with a little extra booklet on his "little gun"

Rick, you'll be our hero if you negotiate a PGCA group buy discount.

[Stephen Hodges]

Rick, you just cost me $90 just by clicking on your link to the book...........I ordered one, thanks, Steve:)

[Rick Losey]

:whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

[Stephen Hodges]

:whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

Do you want my address to send me a check:rolleyes:

[Rick Losey]

Do you want my address to send me a check:rolleyes:

not until I get my commission from the publisher