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Originally Posted by edgarspencer
I brought my copy of Foster's New England Grouse Shooting to Tortola with me. I was reading it on the beach when an Englishman and wife strolled by. He remarked that proper Grouse shooting was done in England. I said that may be but they don't have Parkers. I don't think he understood.
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They may refer to it as the proper way, but when the upper class landed on the rock so many years ago, they had no problem taking Ptarmigan (the fraternal twin of the red grouse ) over dogs ,they wrote of the magnificent shooting to be had here on the colony,they wore guns out for chrissakes ....I grew up seeing the setters actually "set" birds they all did it then ,it was the way the dogs were bred in England from what I understand
I think having beaters push birds up over some of the places I hunt , would be the purest form of physical comedy !....not that far removed from picturing Mr.Spencer hove off on a beach in his finest cabana wear ,telling off a passing by Englishman !!!