Finally
 

I was finally able to connect with a nice cock grouse after having spent about 24 accumulated hours hunting my bird-bare favorite covers in Vermont… VERY disappointing there the past couple of years. It’ll come back I know. We’ve been through cycles before and the grouse always come back… but at 79 I wonder if I’ll be out there after ‘em when they do come back.

But this week I was lucky enough for the fifth year in a row to have been invited back to hunt in Maine close up to the New Brunswick border with the Old Pats Society. What a great bunch of like-minded guys! Grouse and woodcock hunters all - And there were grouse there and woodcock too.
I was lucky enough yesterday morning with my Rear Admiral Thomas Perry’s 1908 DH with 28” twenty gauge Damascus barrels.
I had this gun on the “buy-sell-swap” table the night before and nobody wanted it badly enough…
Good for me, not so good for the ones who opted not to buy it.


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Congratulations. Hard won, but worth every step. I would love to have the opportunity with the Old Pats gang. You are a lucky man.

Evidently the Old Pats enjoy good company.

That’s very kind of you William.




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That's a mighty fine bird ! Great job !

Let me know if you would like to hunt at Markover this week. Hunt is on me.

Pats Society,
 

Dean --Great photo -you look the part of dye in wool grouse hunter.

Guilty as charged. :whistle:





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Congratulations Dean, good shooting! Are you hunting with a dog or just walking them up?

Right on Dean, give us a smile next time in the pic! ;-)

Sure like to have some of those temperature to hunt in. Too damn hot up here, often down to a t shirt

Congratulations Dean, good shooting and nice gun.

Dean, This reminds of what you said about me in my first post many years ago. I'll be 82 in a few days, Nov. 9th. Your hunting clothes look like they might make it through the season, but I don't know about you. I'm glad you are still able to go hunting. I've shot my last bird.