"Burt" Bickel and I are heading down to Tunica County, Mississippi this week for our annual pilgrimage to Beaver Dam. We'll meet up with Destry for breakfast at o'dark 30 at the Blue & White on Highway 61. He'll be coming down from southern Illinois. We plan a coordinated thematic gun scheme for our 3 day hunt. We'll have three 12 gauge 3" Parker D grade No. 3 frames (two 34" and one 32") in the blind and I'll shoot my early Remington Autoloading Shotgun Grade 6 (aka a Model 11F) one day and, of course, in honor of
Nash Buckingham, my 32" A.H. Fox HE/XE special. The other boys will have 11Ds and their own Fox HEs, as well. The gifts for friends are packed. The waders and shells are piled in the gunroom corner. The Brooklyn Handicap and Tree Top Tall are in the leather bottle bag
I'll follow up with "news from the mallard front" and jez hopes dem eloosive fowls is goin' tah pile in de cypress hole dat weez in...