Blooded my CHE Bernard 16 over a point by Alder from which 5 grouse erupted. I've had this gun for several years and waited until this trip to bring it out of the safe. It just seemed the proper time to use it. Call me crazy, but things have to be just right for a special gun. Not by chance, it was built the same year as the DH 16 I've been using on this trip. There's a story there...
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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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