An Old Tattered Coat

[Tom Flanigan]

Thanks for asking for pic's guys. My camera is packed away in a moving box and I have no idea which one. But I plan to post pictures of the coat and my most recent Damascus refinishing when I find it. I'll have pictures of the coat and grouse this fall along with the 20 bore. I don't have a setter this year so I'll have to have my retriever do double duty as a flush and retrieve dog. He's a great retriever and will find birds for me. I hate to go into the grouse woods without a setter, but I'll have to since I won't hunt grouse or any other bird without a dog, even though grouse is one bird that can be successfully hunted without one. I thought I was going to be able to get a pup from Dean's breeder but it was a false pregnancy. I'm hoping that I can get a dog by March so I will be able to send it for training for two months at four months old and have a setter to hunt with by October. I'll send it back to the trainer after the season for another month or two to finish up. Then comes the long process of turning it into a true grouse dog which will take two or three years if the dog is good. The only thing that makes a true grouse dog is one that has a lot of grouse shot over it.