Don't worry about the WC - they're in good hands.....of probably all 10 people that hunt them in NC. In the quail glory days it was standard to whip your dog for pointing a doodle. My family has a thing for the little guys going back 4 generations - Im just carrying on the tradition.
It's actually SE North Carolina - I hit some pines at the end of the day to look for a covey but our summer drought hurt our already paltry numbers. We have a fair amount of second-growth longleaf in this part of the state that still gets burned from time to time. But to me there is just about nothing prettier than longleaf pine and I would happily go for a walk any day under the canopy. Armed or unarmed. Quail or no quail.
My VHE is a 1925 20ga - not a family piece but one I picked up after a long search. Someone before me lengthened the chambers and opened the chokes (the later of which I do not mind) but she displays a wonderful patina of use right down to the almost, but not quite, too-worn checkering that I have little desire to have restored. To me her culmination of near 90yrs of use has made her into a beautiful work of art and she begs to be hunted. I about always oblige.
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