Alaskans on a hunting venture

[Richard Flanders]

I'm finally home and able to manipulate photos for posting on the trip Trigg and I took to hunt outside of Alaska. It was quite the trip. We hunted grouse waterfowl with Bob Brown and his friend Brett in Alberta, grouse in Saskatchewan, and grouse and woodcock in Minnesota at the RGS annual hunt. Here are some pictures of the fun we had. They start out in Alberta and show Bob, myself and Trigg with our first mornings take of geese and mallards and the double banded mallard. We're holding three damascus 10ga guns here, two hammered Parkers and a hammerless Westley Richards style made in Toronto in 1880. Next shows Trigg and his GSP Shine with grouse in Saskatchewan and me with the one bird I managed a decent shot on, and finally some of the RGS shoot in Minnesota. The woodcock was my first in 43 years. One shows Trigg and Shine... can you even see him??... in heavy second growth cover which is incredibly abundant in Minnesota as they log much of the forest for the pulp mill in Grand Rapids. Surprising to me, we actually kicked a lot of birds, both woodcock and grouse, out of that kind of cover and even more surprising, managed to hit them upon occasion. If we really kept score however, the birds won by a large margin.... There's one of a partially albino woodcock that created a lot of interest being held by Dean the huntsman and dog kennel owner. Trigg had him on day 2 and had nothing but good things to say about him and his dogs. Trigg and a local serious bird hunter and trap collector Jerry Snetsinger are shown on an old logging road as we hunted in wet snow one day. We covered a lot of miles and pushed a lot of birds on this trip.