I thought I'd add a couple photos of the guns I used this week. The VHE is a 1912 gun that went to the west coast, destined for ducks(?), but I carried it thinking I might run into an Iowa pheasant. The BHE is a 1924 16 gauge that was a gift for a banker in Binghamton, NY. The 20 gauge is my Kentucky ordered DHE quail gun. It was made in 1918 for a field trial man as the last pandemic was in full swing (irony?).
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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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