James,
Great photo. I think that the Smith Ideal and #5 engraving might just be my favorites among all of the Elsies. An Ideal in 20 gauge sure looks like a great upland gun.
Some years we can get up flight birds until very early Dec. here in Northern Missouri (although the season will be closed then), but generally they are gone by Thanksgiving. I hope you've sent one or two on for the guys south of you. 
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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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