Parker Gun Tail Feathers Oct. 5 Grayling Mi.

[Jeff Kuss]

On Saturday Oct. 5 the North Branch Outing Club in Grayling Michigan is featuring The Parker Gun as part of their Tail Feathers Series. The North Branch Outing Club is a National Historic Site on the Au Sable River. David McCool of McCool Outdoors LLC has invited Steve Smith of Gun Dog Magazine, Christopher Smith, a wildlife artist and Dell Whitman, a gunsmith specializing in double guns to speak that day. ( Bios to follow)
Guided fly fishing and woodcock and grouse hunting will be available for the weekend.
I believe that you will find some Parker eye candy on display. Please feel free to
bring something to display.
Please see the website www.northbranchoutingclub.com.

[Dean Romig]

Sounds like a great weekend of the kind of things we all enjoy.





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[Rich Anderson]

Sounds like fun. However I'll be in the U.P. hunting so won't be able to attend. Del is a first rate smith and if you get shooting sportsman he did an article on a try gun he built. A very different approach.

[Bill Murphy]

A 73 year old sportsman could stay in their place until he is 90 by using the income or principal from his 401K without straining. Not a bad alternative to a normal retirement facility.

[Rich Anderson]

A 73 year old sportsman could stay in their place until he is 90 by using the income or principal from his 401K without straining. Not a bad alternative to a normal retirement facility.

What's that about???

A PGCA member runs the fly shop there. I've fished the North Branch many times as we had a cottage on KP Lake just south of there. Lovells is famous for their bridge walk on either Memorial or Labor Day I don't recall. The walk is all of a 100 feet.

[John Dallas]

Dave McCool is a really good guy - dog trainer, fishing guide, and the man who founded the "Golden Bones" carp fishing on a fly in Grand Traverse Bay. Fullers is about 8 miles from my cabin,and I was there about an hour ago, showing friends what an old time lodge looks like. Many of the "old guys " (Ford, Firestone, Edison) stayed and fished there

[Jeff Kuss]

TTT

[Jeff Kuss]

Just a reminder that the Tail Feather day featuring The Parker Gun at the North Branch Outing Club is coming up next Sat. I hope to see some members come up for this event.
I will be bring up some guns to show and plan to get some hunting in. I am looking forward to the talks by Steve Smith, Del Whitman and Christopher Smith.

[Jay Gardner]

Thank you for the reminder. I’ll be there. A couple of other points of interest: the hardware store around the corner from the NBOC sells “sticky buns” - perfect mid afternoon snack; Lovells Roadside Tavern makes a pretty darn good
Cheeseburger!

[John Dallas]

There is also a great fly fishing Museum 300 yards away from Fuller's. Weather in Grayling Michigan

[Eric Eis]

Just a reminder that the Tail Feather day featuring The Parker Gun at the North Branch Outing Club is coming up next Sat. I hope to see some members come up for this event.
I will be bring up some guns to show and plan to get some hunting in. I am looking forward to the talks by Steve Smith, Del Whitman and Christopher Smith.

I can't make it but I loaned Del both volumes of the Parker Story this summer. Damn I would love to attend.

[Mike Franzen]

What a great time that would be. I had the privilege of being Dave Tatman’s guest at the Ox Bow club for some fly fishing and hunting. Here’s some memorabilia of that adventure.

[John Dallas]

The OxBow is great. I believe it's just turned 100. My downstate neighbor is 1/3 owner of the club

[Dave Tatman]

That is correct, John. We celebrated 100 years of trout fishing and bird hunting from the OxBow Club this year. I will make my fourth trip this year to the club in a few weeks for grouse and woodcock. It's an eleven hour trip from southern Kentucky, but worth every minute.

Dave

[Jay Gardner]

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the NBOC and retiring to the Oxbow Saturday night.

[Jeff Kuss]

I am heading up there this morning. I'm stopping by Bachelder's on the way to pick up a
gun.

[John Dallas]

Wish I wasn't on grandpa duty at a soccer game in Cleveland.

[Jeff Kuss]

Sorry I haven't gotten pictures of last weekend posted yet, I got home to 300 acres of beans ready to harvest. It has been a long week. The North Branch Outing Club is a very unique lodge that a step back in time. Every where you look in this wonderfully restored lodge are antiques and pictures of hunting and fishing from years ago.
Most importantly I got my first grouse on Friday.
The Tail Feathers Meeting on Saturday was well attended and a good time.

[Jeff Kuss]

More pictures.

[Jeff Kuss]

Tail Feathers and more of the lodge.

[Daryl Corona]

Way to go Jeff. That looks like you had a great hunt and congrats on you first grouse.:bowdown:

[Randy G Roberts]

Good stuff. Congrats from one Hoosier to a fellow Hoosier!

[John Dallas]

Fuller's North Branch Outing Club is on the historical registry. Page listings of Henry Ford, Tom Edison, Harvey Firestone, and other legends of American Industry are shown in the books. You gotta visit the place. Good guides, and Judy Fuller the owner puts on great meal spreads. BTW, if you are in the area, contact me, my cabin is about 8 miles from there. I don't want to take any business from their guides, but I can float you on the Au Sable for a similar donation to the Anglers of the Au Sable