[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

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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Dean, every time I read something like this, where a hunter is drawn to his "home" covers, I can't help but hear Gordon McQuarrie quoting Mr. President: "Always good to get away...always good to come home" (Maybe not exact, but close enough). I miss clear running water and mountains here in North Missouri (having grown up in Virginia), but it's home now after 41 years, and I find it's the best place to be come Fall. I keep thinking I'll go to New England to grouse/woodcock hunt some day, but it's hard to think of when, knowing I'd be leaving my own "home covers." Maybe that's why I enjoy so much when you (especially you) and others post your accounts of hunting in New England. I can experience it vicariously. I hope you have many more days in your Vermont.