Two Up, Two Down
 

Was looking at my DHE (209,000 range) and noticed that the 4 birds on the floor plate were two dead in the air, and two standing watching their brothers' demise. Is that pattern common?

What makes you think their dead ?

Why are the two in the air dead?

Heads seem to be up

Or is death a certainty because it's a Parker?:rotf:

The right bird's head is below the body. The wing position also looks "dead" to me, but, I've been wrong once or twice before

I was wondering if I was the only one who wonders about these "Birds".
I have taken a tally of my walkers vs flyers.
8606X, 3 Strutting, 1 Flying
13155X, 4 Flyers
20204X, 1 walking, 3 in Flight
21622X, 2 walking, 2 Flying
21868X, 1 Walking, 3 Flying
22564X, 2 Walking, 2 Flying
22926X, 1 Walking, 3 Flying
I need to start looking for a D grade with 3 on the ground, 1 in flight.
The surprise came when I looked at my only repro, and there are only 3 pheasants; 1 Walking, 1 Flying, and one with it's wings up, but feet on the ground.

Parker birds could be mistaken for anything.

That all depends on the artistic talent of the engraver.





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Parkers put a lot of birds dead in the air but just not those two.

Early 'birds' look like Guinea fowl. The Pheasants on my repro are the closest to a pheasant I've seen.

Here's one that looks more like a pheasant than anything else because of its abnormally long tail. Sometimes it's really hard to figure out exactly what these turnips are meant to represent.


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Sometimes a turnip is just a turnip.

You do hear about a lot of flying turnips, not sure how they taste....

I wing tipped one with a 28ga a couple of years ago. Not hit hard just enough that it wouldn't stay airborne. It gave the dog a helluva a run but she finally caught it. When I cooked it up it was terrible, to much adrenalin I suppose:rotf:

True Story. When I was in Korea, compliments of my rich Uncle, there was a dog butcher about a block from my compound. When they were going to kill a dog, they would throw a can of gasoline on it, and light it off. They claimed that the adrenaline made the meat more tender, or taste better - couldn't get a good translation.

As they say, "That just ain't right!"

Barbarians - custom or no custom.





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