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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
russ the first gun i ever shot at the age of 8 years was my uncles model 24 stevens it was the plastic stock version in 22 over 410..my tarket was a 55 gallon drum i closed my eyes pulled the trigger and missed that 55 gallon barrel....a few years back i traded for a plastic stock 22 and 410 on the bottom i still have it and use it with my squirl dog and i go hunting...charlie
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These accounts of squirrel hunting past are intriguing. Small game was once the gateway to deer and turkey. Now rabbits and squirrels get ignored by so many. Too bad. I can read the nostalgia in these accounts.
Charlie, now that we have discussed our boyhood squirrel guns, we need to share tales of those squirrel dogs we grew up with (and, in your case, have now). There's nothing quite like a good squirrel dog. Charlie, tell us about yours, please.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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