[QUOTE=John Dallas;11102]Dan Cote is the owner/editor of the Double Gun Journal[- thanks for the clarification John- do you have either a phone number or a e-mail address for Mr. Cote? By the way, as you are a fly fisherman (I used to be- big-time) do you tie your own fly patterns? If so, and I still get Craig Matthews' Blue Ribbon Flies catalog- current one had an archival reprint from jack Gartside on all the various feather and plumage from same--
Last sat I got the "money bird" at our club Tower/Euro shoot- a honey buff rooster- head shot so both the flesh (I love pheasant on the table- best game bird goingIMO) and the plumage were "intact"- as compared to a few other of the 135 birds released that got "hammered a bit hard"- I carefully skinned it out, also kept both wings, the entire tail feather assembly and even the head with the white collar and the red eye patches- now it is dusted down with Borax, but once it is cured- if you would like some of this for tying, advise and I will see that you receive some later-
Ooops- I though Dave Weber was the owner--
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