Mr. Murphy,
Would love to hear more about the Potomac gunning club that now (or still) occupies the island between Hallowing Pt. and the old Bartholomew Shoreline. A couple guys I hunt with in Rock Hall hunted their frequently in the 70's and early 80's. I had a stake right off the shoreline of what I believe to be Bartholomew land and also hunted Broad Cr. In late 90's a few times. Used to wear out cans and redheads before the Potomac lost a lot of habitat just north for Washington Harbor at Smoot Bay (which I also used to gun). Will see if I can find scanned article from an old issue of Decoy Collector magazine that covered the various Potomac River gunning clubs that existed right up to about WW II. I believe it mentions the club you hunt with as well as the club just down river at Chapmans Landing where Herbert Hoover hunted fowl. I now hunt mainly from several blinds accumulated over the past 15 years or so on the west side of Mason Neck. Will be shooting a Fox 12 bore with newly acquired New Era ITX shells. By the way, if you want your own island in the fabled Potomac, I heard a rumor that Dogue island in Occoquan Bay, also reported to be gunned by Hoover back in the day is on the market. We know this as Conrad Is and a great seagull roost.
Jerry
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