And you came back... why?

To escape the chiggers, fire ants, alligators, rattle snakes, watermocasins and mid day 85 degree temps. And to be closer to my new england friends....

The gators were out this weekend. It gets up to 55 or so and they come out.

We're looking forward to getting together soon. I won't tell Grace..... I'll let it be a surprise.

Mills I would believe you would enjoy this book since you are from the area. I mailed him my check and when he noticed my last name, wrote me a very nice letter about my late grandfather, with whom he lived with at Clemson. Small world.

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Yes, John. I have that one and it is good. He is a PGCA member and spoke at the annual meeting a few years ago

I spoke at length with Mr. Frierson at that meeting and he inscribed my book as well.

Back in 2010, I was looking at a nice 30" 16ga. DHE, in a shop down in SC. The owner of the shop told me he would give my name to the gun's owner and have him call me.
The morning I was driving up the parking garage ramp to go into the hospital for an operation, my cellphone rang, and it was Doc Frierson. He told me that he had just finished doing a family genealogy and he had Spencer relatives who had moved from Connecticut to South Carolina prior to the Civil War. Not surprisingly, I knew nothing of them, but John informed me they fought for the South, and that he and I were related. He sent me a copy of his book which I digested during my recovery. We have since written back and forth on numerous occasions, and shared our maple syrup and 'shine (which I might point out is 'killer' good 120 proof) He's an accomplished cabinet maker and botanist.
Long story short, I have his DHE 16.

good storey...and a parker to boot....charlie

What about William H. Claflin's Partridge Rambles and Partridge Adventures? I don't have either, and I understand they're hard to find and harder to afford if you do find them. There's a reprint available here:
http://uplandalmanaconline.com/colle...m-h-claflin-jr

Edgar
Dos XX's should have chose you for their" most interesting man in the world" advertising campaign. Now if you tell me you also play clasical guitar, I will bow down in awe. I was going to say I would be your gun bearer at Hausmann's, but you would probably learn to play in that amount of time.

No, Harold, I don't. However I started playing the bagpipes at age 10, and played for many years till the smoking pipe ruined that. My son plays them, as well as the dobro.

ahh- love the pipes - listened to a young man who was a master on Cape Breton last fall,

and one of my favorite reenacting memories was getting up early in a foggy camp and hearing them in the distance, slowly a young kilted highlander materialized from the fog and passed by me into the haze once more


for those who do not appreciate them - join the crowd


"Definition of a 'gentleman' - someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't," - Ronnie Corbett.

"The Irish invented the bagpipes as a joke and gave them to the Scottish, they still haven't found out," - Denis Leary.

"I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig." - Alfred Hitchcock

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Good ones Rick... I mean really good ones!

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Dean,

I found a few more for your list that contain both woodcock and grouse hunting. "Upland Tales" is edited by Worth Matthewson but is a compilation of stories by Edwin Sandys and others written in the late 1880's to about 1910. "Eastern Upland Shooting" by Charles Norris is another, originally written in the 1930's (I think) there was a Country Sport press reprint. And lastly is one I just received 2 days ago; "Kriders Sporting Anecdotes" an 1853 compilation of experiences by John Krider. Just started reading it but so far so good. He was a big gun dealer in Philadelphia, there is even an advertisement for his wares in the back of the book.

This thread should really be a sticky!!

Jack Kuzepski

Countrysport put out an anthology on grouse hunting - Bare November Days - and an anthology on woodcock hunting - Come October and both are good

Jack, Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't read "Upland Tales" by Sandys and others and I've never even heard of "Krider's Sporting Anecdotes" but I have Norris' book "Eastern Upland Shooting" and enjoyed reading it.

Mills, I have both of those titles - Thanks.

I picked up a couple of books at the Southern. A copy of Partridge Shortnin' and GBE's book on the Blackwater/Canaan. It was my birthday(61), so I treated myself. Havent had a chance to even look at them yet.

A belated "Happy Birthday" Harold!