Thanks for the kudos guys! Our individual copies arrived today and the box with our editor copies arrived Friday. Contributor copies were mailed today.

Many thanks to our members that contributed their "First Parker" stories. It was fun putting that article together.

Our copies just arrived. In thumbing through it, I notice the article on the DuPonts who owned a premier duck plantation near Georgetown at the time. Very interesting family, another branch of the family owns a place near Dad’s and I have hunted ducks on it.

This video is long, but well worth the watch. https://youtu.be/YJ0YHEXTMkg?si=DFyUDdi-rmCxQZZm

And Ted Turner bought the Kinloch Plantation and, just like all other Turner properties in the West, has turned it entirely into a nature preserve (read NO HUNTING).





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I finally got my PP late yesterday and have already read it through. What fine and diverse offerings! I have my favorites, but all are of quality. Puppy pictures always have appeal, and glimpses into the past, whether factual or nostalgic, get and keep my attention. Mike and Sammy have done well in continuing the quality of our publication and adding their own person touch, and are keeping a high standard set by previous editors from day one of the publication. My congratulations to the editors and the authors, and my thanks to them for making our publication the best of its kind.

I grew up on and around Montpelier in Orange VA that wasJames Madison’s home and later purchased by William DuPont and after his death it was taken over by his daughter Marion DuPont Scott , her second husband was Randolph Scott . Anyway in the biography of Marion DuPont Scott there was a section in the book about properties her father had and that she had . Seems they had a plantation somewhere in Georgia the plantation was located on the Altamaha River and they called it Altama supposedly it was 9,000 acres . She also owned the track and steeplechase course in Camden SC along with a training facility and a manor house in the town of Camden .

There is hunting at Kinloch. Ted Turner no longer owns it anyway

Got my copy yesterday. Haven't gotten past the cover yet, but that cover photo warms the cockles of me heart. Born and bred a dove shooter, a limit of mourners and a nice S X S always stirs me.

Well done!

Made it to TN yesterday

On page 41 there’s a picture of the Fox Challange team . Is that Santa Claus behind Daryl in the golf cart :rotf::rotf::rotf:

Craig, you saw the Rich Anderson photo-bomb!! 😂🤣👍🏻