Anticipating South Dakota

[Bruce Day]

Heading a few hundred miles north in a couple weeks and back to the farm. We've had so many Parker buddies there over the years, hunted in tee shirts and down coats, dogs now long gone and fondly remembered, new dogs wild with excitement, hunting buddies now gone and fondly remembered. So, Jeff Christie won't be there this year because of the bit of unpleasantness but there might be a glass of fine pinot saved for him.

We always have the opportunity to limit , some do, some don't, and some don't care.

A few pictures from years past. No the picture of Larry Frey and big bird is not here nor is the picture of John Dunkle wearing his pheasant stalking hat, but Parker hunters might enjoy these anyway.

[Dean Romig]

Mmmmm... Nice AAH.. Looks like a 20 or even a 28 :whistle:

( A1S ??)

[Larry Frey]

I have lots of great memories of that place and after all isn’t that what it's all about?:)

[David Weber]

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18952A few more pictures from a place close to heaven:

[Bruce Day]

The story is that Charlie whacked a rooster that crashed into the cupola and knocked it off kilter. Its all Charlie's fault. It was perfect before then.

FWIW, the top Parker in the photo is my old beater, grandfather's PHE 16 that has been with me for 42 years.

[Paul Plager]

Thanks Bruce. Not only are those the type of hunts we all love to remember, but they also are the hunts we hope for and dream about.

[David Weber]

Fried racoon anyone?

[edgarspencer]

My dad and his old hunting buddy, Charley Stroh, used to go to SD every year, and they were like kids the weeks before. That ended when the airline almost killed their two German Wirehaired Pointers. Good thing the Vet's office was that close to the airport.

[Daryl Corona]

That's precisely why my buddies and I drive out every year. Dogs are safe and sound in their crates behind us as are our beloved Parkers, Foxes, Merkels, etc. Besides I refuse to be treated like cattle and a suspected terrorist by the airlines. Why even Jent Mitchell, who piloted military and commercial aircraft for 30+ years, chooses to drive out every year.

[edgarspencer]

Two seventy year old men driving from CT to SD is the stuff movies are made of. Knowing those two, it's safe to say they would forget where they were going before they got out of the state.

[Josh Loewensteiner]

Two weeks from today we should be drinking moonshine in the evening after a long walk in the wilderness of South Dakota. Can't friggin' wait!

[Bruce Day]

Ten Parker people from east coast to west coast and points between. Limo service from Sioux Falls ( well kinda a limo, the old Suburban is getting creaky but at 20 now its almost paid for) .

A treat will be waiting in the limo.

Then of course we have reservations at the evening cultural event:

[Jeff Christie]

Just hope they are not showing Das Ring. The benches get hard.