Thank You Harold P.

[John D.]

I just wanted to thank Harold for the incredible February Opening page image for the PGGA Website! My thanks so much!

If folks have an image they'd like to submit for future months - as I'm always prowling this site for pictures to "borrow" for the main site page - and you haven't posted them, feel free to PM me, and I'll give you e-mail address to send them to...

Again - my thanks Harold - what a terrific image!

John D.

[Dean Romig]

A very nice picture - Thanks Harold and John!





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[Harold Pickens]

Ha, didnt even realize it was on there until Frank Cronin pm'd me. Hope you all like it.

[Randy Roberts]

Very nice pic indeed Harold and that's a dandy Rooster, that Ole Boy has a lot of bars and some are hidden.

[Mills]

Very well done by photographer and editor!!!

[Phil Yearout]

Harold, those are some tail feathers that just might place pretty high in some contests. Nice!

[Dean Romig]

I see 29 or 30 bars and that’s a bunch!





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[Harold Pickens]

Shoot, wish I had kept that tail. The bird was on our sportsmans club property.
We raise birds and release them, and do have some carry over from the past year. When I pulled in to hunt, my best friend was pulling out of the switch grass fields, and said his young lab, in his first year, had worked a bird back in the corner, but never put it in the air. I turned loose my 2 young setters and as soon as we got back there, it was point-move-point-move on a running bird. With the dogs on point, I moved in and the bird went out in back of me. I missed the first open shot, but on the second , I saw the leg drop, but it continued over the hill, out of sight. Damn, I thought, that is going to be a lost bird. The line took me into an autumn olive/multiflora hell hole with a big wolf oak tree in the middle. Suddenly the dog bells went silent, and I pushed thru to find him lying in the open under the oak with his wings outstretched like he was flying. I got to the bird before the dogs broke and picked him up, stone dead.
The gun is a Quality O 16 ga hammer gun with lightening cuts in the receiver. Barrels are 26" Twist(letters as such)--I forget the chokes. Fishtail top lever.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Shoot, wish I had kept that tail. The bird was on our sportsmans club property.
We raise birds and release them, and do have some carry over from the past year. When I pulled in to hunt, my best friend was pulling out of the switch grass fields, and said his young lab, in his first year, had worked a bird back in the corner, but never put it in the air. I turned loose my 2 young setters and as soon as we got back there, it was point-move-point-move on a running bird. With the dogs on point, I moved in and the bird went out in back of me. I missed the first open shot, but on the second , I saw the leg drop, but it continued over the hill, out of sight. Damn, I thought, that is going to be a lost bird. The line took me into an autumn olive/multiflora hell hole with a big wolf oak tree in the middle. Suddenly the dog bells went silent, and I pushed thru to find him lying in the open under the oak with his wings outstretched like he was flying. I got to the bird before the dogs broke and picked him up, stone dead.
The gun is a Quality O 16 ga hammer gun with lightening cuts in the receiver. Barrels are 26" Twist(letters as such)--I forget the chokes. Fishtail top lever.

At least we know the choke in the left barrel was just right for the job!

The tail on that bird is so long, I have to move the photo on the home page from side to side in order to see it all.

[Larry the Gun Guy]

That bird would have made a heck of a mount. Great recovery.