I hunt almost exclusively in Vermont - deer, grouse, woodcock, turkeys, and a lifetime of memories. My Dad brought me to deer camp there in about ‘56 and I go back each and every season for long weekends and weeks at a time. Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is in my blood and I have no idea who I’d be if I never went there.
I have hunted turkeys on my cousin’s farm in Jefferson Ohio a number of times and just 3 or 4 years ago a friend and I have been deer and turkey hunting in MA about 50 miles west of Andover.
I have a 12 gauge DH with F/F chokes and a 10 ga. D Lifter with 30” Damascus barrels (chokes unknown but it kills turkeys) and I shoot off the shelf 1 1/4 oz. of 6 in the DH and 1 1/2 oz. of 6 in 2 3/4” loads made for me by Frank Cronin.
I have a lot of fun with either one. This year it will be the job of the Lifter as my DH is with Brian Board for a stock conversion (I hope).
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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