Congratulations Phil !!!...you'll have no worries about hunting there -you chased me around up here for a day and got your first ruff, if you did that the hard woods will be a breeze !

Wow, Phil. That’s a beautiful example of Parker engraving. Congratulations.

"Hard woods"? :rotf::biglaugh::rotf:






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Very little deciduous in NL...mostly stunted conifer

This thread is awesome, and many congrats to the winner, what a setter!


I know the competition is over, but this afternoon I just noticed the only Parker engraving of a Setter retrieving on my guns! And a duck at that!! Very early $125 grade lifter short 10. The engraving is on the trigger bow. Awful photography I know, time and resources were limited today!

Did Chris mention Bog holes??? One minute I’m looking at the back of Chris’s bird vest the next minute at his boots.

we have bog holes the size of texas...

Well,that would be big enough to fall in for sure !

Those are grown over cellar holes of the first settlers, but they are amazingly huge when you think you’re kicking through a blackberry patch and you disappear into one.





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i've always wanted to hunt an old homestead like that ,must be like finding treasure ....nothing like that up here

Old Hemlock Osthaus had a knack for finding the cellar hole with the most accumulation of decades of decaying muck in it - and the amount he got on him was inversely proportional to the distance to running water to clean him off in

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Congratulations Phil! I noticed the fine engraving when you let me shoot this during one of our Eurasion hunts. All your setters are beautiful, I know them well!

Thanks Chris. I am really looking forward to hunting grouse as the trees are starting to change color this fall.
I had forgotten that I had brought this Parker up to shoot dove with you.
Hopefully we can get together real soon before it gets too hot and have a sub gauge Parker dove shoot.
I love these Eurasian hunts as it allows me a chance to bring 5 or 6 shotguns to shoot that might not get used very much during the year otherwise.