Thanks Tim - That's a sweetheart of a gun. I took a fair number of grouse and woodcock with it and that Mod barrel can really reach out there.
One of my greatest memories with it was a big cock grouse that flashed about twenty-five yards to my right from beneath some scrub apple trees flying up along an old barb wire fence toward another group of older apple trees. When he finally broke into view he was more than 35 yards away and about 4 feet off the ground going like a rocket. All in one motion I mounted that gun, put my finger on the rear trigger, swung past him, and I must have pressed the trigger because he disappeared from my view. I found him stone dead just beyond where I last saw him... a full 44 long paces from where I was standing when I shot.
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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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