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I have a Dickson 28 gauge (box lock) that has been my go-to grouse gun for almost 40 years. Jack Rowe made the stock for it after I broke the (too short) original falling down an icy bluff after Iowa grouse one winter. It fits me to a "T" and brings birds down if I can see them. Mr. Rowe, bless his soul, fussed at me for breaking the original stock ("You shouldn't be allowed to have a nice gun like that!" He said. There were stampings on the gun that he recognized and claimed to know the individual who actually made the gun!).
However, I always take a couple more (don't we all!?) to our cabin for the two-weeks of heaven we experience in Northern Minnesota. Among the guns I know I'll take is one of a very few DH 16s with straight-hand stock and splinter forend and 26 inch barrels ever made (the best configuration for a grouse gun as far as I'm concerned, and the configuration of my Dickson). A Fox XE 16 will also make the trip, along with a Parker GH 10 bore that I hope to walk up a few ducks with during the "down times." Gosh, just writing about it and reading these posts makes me excited for the last two weeks of October.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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09-14-2018, 06:54 PM | #4 | ||||||
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FOX CE 20ga 26" IC/MOD. I have been searching for a Parker 20ga DE 26" Damascus for quail and grouse. I have been hunting quail in the southwest more than grouse lately. Hope to get back to northern Maine soon.
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09-14-2018, 06:58 PM | #5 | ||||||
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It's 94 here today. My English cocker flushed 5 blues for me yesterday but the trees were so thick and the sun was in my eye .
Tomorrow I'll be back at it...may try for ptarmigan at 13,000 plus feet in the open and blue grouse again in the trees. I'm using a grade I Hollenbeck 12 bore with 26.5 inch IC/IC Damascus barrels. |
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09-14-2018, 07:03 PM | #6 | |||||||
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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09-14-2018, 07:09 PM | #7 | |||||||
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I've seen more porcupines on the prairie in cholla cactus country than where I hunt grouse. Here’s the worst dog vs Porcupine I’ve seen on the Colorado prairie. I posted a photo on my original post. |
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09-14-2018, 07:18 PM | #8 | |||||||
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Good hunting, and I hope you have cooler weather.
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09-14-2018, 07:18 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I will be using the most perfect grouse gun ever designed and built; a c. 1935 16 ga. Savage Fox Skeet & Upland Game Gun, DT, SG, SFE, 26" barrels bored .005 right, .011 left. (Flush, I dare ya!!).
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09-14-2018, 07:20 PM | #10 | ||||||
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A sweet gun...in a sweet configuration!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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