I'm obfuscated... :vconfused:

Appreciate that, Dave
 

-- In my beloved USMC, we called them "Irish Pennants" and trimmed them off our Utilities with a fingernail clipper before the Sgt. Major's inspection in Boot Camp--:bigbye::cool:

Exactly.......:whistle:

Info
 

Francis, Please check your PM. Tom

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Francis, All you have to do is recheck the accepted USPS two letter abreviations for the several States.

Arkansas- Not Alaska
 

Gunny Hathcock was at MCRD Parris Island- when Alaska became our 49th State- He grew up in Arkansas- back then I am sure they had quail- not so sure about pheasants that far down in Deep Dixie- Just read my rich yuppie Dentist's (he shoots pen raised quails with a Beretta 28 gauge O?U (the Dick Cheney limited edition) copy of Shootin' Schwartzman-- talks about how the great era of quails in Dixie was from after the War of Nawthern Aggression ended until about 1905- small farms, lotsa weeds and cover, mild winters, and predators killed by farmers and tenants to keep their poultry safe) now that's all gone with da wind I am afraid- and quail hunting per se has become a sport of the super rich, just as a driven bird shoot in Limey-land or the European Continent-- c'est la vie!!:cool::cool:

Find me one for Alaska before 1959
 

-- AK was the one for Arkansas until Alaska cranked into the program in 1959- and Carlos Hathcock was shooting birds on the wing with his single shot .22 way before that year-and that's a fact!!:p:bigbye::cool:

This Canuck is officially de-obfuscated with the help of the USPS reference

Alaska A.K.A. AK
Arkansas A.K.A. AR

No Quail in AK and No Ptarmigan in AR (w/o the intervention of a taxidermist)

My understanding of the Irish reference was not of Pennants but of Pennance required as a result of the S/M inspection.

Cheers,
Jack

And so, back to DuPont and Lordship...

I thought I had a better picture of Lordship but I was mistaken.

Here are a few pictures from "Skeet" by Bob Nichols, 1939.




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