Randy, Nice pictures! Got me to thinking I had seen that portrait before so I opened my copy of Ed Muderlak’s “Parker Guns, Shooting Flying and the American Experience” and on pg. 291 is that very picture along with vignettes of six other famous trap shooters of the late 1890’s originally published in “Twenty Years of Trap Shooting in Missouri” which I owned until about 5 years ago when I sold it to a member here.
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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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