Upland Gunning by Wm. J. Shaldach

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Just spent a most enjoyable evening with this book. It is all etchings and color plates by William j Shaldach, and they are truly amazing. I am sure that any affectionado of double guns would enjoy this book. Most of it is grouse, woodcock, quail , and bird dogs, something most of us all have in common. There is no reading, or story per se ,just the etchings. It only took one double Manhattan to go through the entire book. I bought this book at the southern side by side several years ago and finally got around to looking at it tonight.
These etchings were from around the 1930s era

[Dean Romig]

Well shucks Harold, I thought you were gonna post pictures of all those etchin's here ... :whistle:





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[Harold Lee Pickens]

Well, Id have to fix myself another drink, were I to do that!

[Eric Eis]

Well, Id have to fix myself another drink, were I to do that!

So fix the damn drink! :cheers:

[Rick Losey]

great book- he also did a similar one on fishing

[Garry L Gordon]

Yes, it's an enjoyable book.

BTW, I have that same dog sculpture...but mine is a Gordon Setter.:bigbye:

[Harold Lee Pickens]

The other book is a 2 volume set" Coverts and Casts/ Currents and Eddies". I have that also.

[charlie cleveland]

still waiting harold.....charlie

[Joe Dreisch]

I have two books by William J. Schaldach. The second one I bought is called "The Wind on Your Cheek or More chips from the log of an artist sportsman". This one has art and text about grouse, woodcock, trout, bass, fishing, hunting, dogs, etc. (copyright 1972). Stories and art. Some previously published in Fishing Waters of the World, Hunting and Fishing Magazine, and Field and Stream.

The first is Upland Gunning Copyright 1946. It is a limited printing of 160 of which 150 for sale (copy #48) signed by the author beneath the number. I found this at an auction in Bel Air, MD about 15 years ago. Like Harold says, it is a very interesting collection of upland art. What intrigued me is the inscription and signatures on the first white page. It is in cursive and says (best I can tell) "Dinner in honor of W. Reed Morris, Knickerbocker Club, Wednesday, July 13, 1949.
Below this are signatures of 17 gentlemen
The icing on the cake is a card with the Knickerbocker Club initial logo type written MENU
Selections in French
At the bottom: Liebfraumilch 1943
Moet & Chandon Brut
Liqueurs July.13.1949

I was 6 months old then! I have never researched this club or the names in the signatures. Anyone know anything about a Knickerbocker Club? A Manhattan sounds perfect after all this typing..... Joe

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Joe, I think that would make your book quite collectible. Mine is the trade edition although it is also from 1946. I do find him much easier to read than many of the notable outdoor writers of that era.
I know I have asked before, but where in southwestern Pennsylvania are you located, I am only less than a half-hour from the Washington county line

[Joe Dreisch]

Harold, I am in Rostraver Twp. about 3 miles outside West Newton. Roughly 5 miles north of I-70 off PA 51. I'm about 45 minutes from Cabela's Wheeling. Actually, I am presently an eternity from Cabela's Wheeling but things will get better!
My Upland Gunning book does not have a dust jacket but is in pretty good shape. The art is great.

[Phil Yearout]

Well Harold got me intrigued and since I'm pretty much bored out of my mind currently I went in search of these books which were unknown to me before Harold's mention. Found the Upland book on the bay, 1946 edition in great shape. No dust jacket but I'm OK with it. The two volume set (Coverts & Casts and Currents & Eddies) came from ABE; was originally published in 1943 I guess and reprinted in 1970; this is the later edition, again in great shape and I'm a sucker for slip cased books, so there you go. Very nice art and some good old fishin' stories...can't go wrong...

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[Harold Lee Pickens]

Hope you enjoy them Phil. I sure did. Currently reading The Life and times of general Andrew Pickens, a revolutionary war hero from South Carolina who I was always told was a relative of ours. I'm sure Mills can attest that the name Pickens is not uncommon in South Carolina and northern Georgia area. Hopefully they are good people

[Phil Yearout]

Hope so too Harold. With a name like Yearout you pretty much know another Yearout is a relative of some sort, so you gotta take what you get. 'Course, so do they :rotf:

[John Dallas]

6 bottles of head cement? One bottle lasts me years, until it gets too hard. You must tie a LOT of flies

[Phil Yearout]

I just checked and four of them are dried up; I just never get around to throwing anything out :)

[Daniel Carter]

When mine get a little thick I add lacquer thinner using a straw to pick up a small amount and shake and it's good for another year.