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10-03-2021, 09:48 AM
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Rain, Rain, Rain
This was my first weekend excursion to “grouse camp” in VT’s NEK and I brought along two of my grandkids, Cam and his kid sister Katie, and of course my BIL, Jamie as well. It has been raining since we got here on Friday afternoon but we went out for a couple of hours before dark to a favorite grouse cover. But to my dismay there were no grouse there. Gracie did manage some great points on woodcock but the foliage is still thick and mostly green and we never got a shot at them.
Saturday we all hunted together in the rain and we did a lot of wet walking and Gracie made some classic points on grouse in a totally different favorite string of grouse covers and we had 14 flushes in about two hours but again, without anything to show for our efforts. Today we’re contemplating heading home early because the weather prediction is for rain all day and we’re running out of dry clothes.
Tom, our host and owner of this camp, brought his Dad Hubert’s old single-shot Harrington and Richardson Arms Co. 16 gauge “Bay State” shotgun to camp. It’s the second one up from the bottom and has some rust on the barrel and frame so I asked Tom if I could bring it home and make it nice again. He said “I wish you would Dean.” so home it comes today. It is one of the guns I cut my teeth on back in the early sixties and I haven’t laid eyes on it since those days.
Katie is doing Morris Baker honor by wearing my RST hat.
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10-03-2021, 01:28 PM
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Thanks for the tease to the season. I wish you could send us some of your rain. Any woodcock here would need a jackhammer to get worms.
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