Subtle, but sure, signs of Fall hunting -- What are yours?

[Woodcock survey]

A contemporary of Woolners, Paul Kurconnen(sp.) was a film maker in central Mass. He made a number of surf fishing films and hunting films, woodcock mainly, and he came up with the idea of the sawed off fiber glass gun and it spread in the local area. He tried with the available tools of the day but could not get any good grouse footage because of the light conditions. The Woolner brothers also knew Hal Lyman the owner of the 3rd Invincible. They all fished the outer cape and hunted grouse and woodcock.

[mobirdhunter]

You gentlemen certainly do live in an area rich in the sporting traditions...and that produced some of the best literature on hunting and fishing.

[stumpstalker]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

You gentlemen certainly do live in an area rich in the sporting traditions...and that produced some of the best literature on hunting and fishing.

Garry:

We do have some great sporting traditions here in the Northeast, but our regional Megalopolis is trending toward the effete.

We have teen-age boys around here now who have never baited a hook or shot a gun.

I look toward the West and South (and far North) of our country to lead in extending the outdoor ethos in the future. Paddle-boarding, mountain-biking, hiking and bird-watching are the main businesses today of our venerable sporting camps. They are great activities; but I think we’re missing something essential if we are not occasionally out there extracting something wild to eat.

[Ron Scott]

Frank was a member and used to shoot regularly at our local club—the Boylston Sportsman’s Cub. My father knew Frank, shot with him, and took photos for his book on grouse hunting.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Russell E. Cleary

Garry:

We do have some great sporting traditions here in the Northeast, but our regional Megalopolis is trending toward the effete.

We have teen-age boys around here now who have never baited a hook or shot a gun.

I look toward the West and South (and far North) of our country to lead in extending the outdoor ethos in the future. Paddle-boarding, mountain-biking, hiking and bird-watching are the main businesses today of our venerable sporting camps. They are great activities; but I think we’re missing something essential if we are not occasionally out there extracting something wild to eat.

Russell, I feel blessed to have found my way to Northern Missouri. The top two tiers of counties in Missouri have a smaller population now than they did in 1900. A good proportion of the local young men, and a fair number of young women, do hunt and fish. Sadly, most of them leave the area as there is little for them to do to support themselves. Farming is still the biggest "industry;" roads are poor, but generally sparsely traveled; taxes are low; gun laws lenient; and we are not a destination for too many, other than deer and turkey hunters. There's nothing flashy about us here in, what I like to call the "Middle-Middle," but it's home for us now, and I am just OK with that.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Russell E. Cleary

Paddle-boarding, mountain-biking, hiking and bird-watching are the main businesses today of our venerable sporting camps. They are great activities; but I think we’re missing something essential if we are not occasionally out there extracting something wild to eat.

Right Russell, and not just blueberries, mushrooms and fiddleheads.






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[stumpstalker]

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;280291]Right Russell, and not just blueberries, mushrooms and fiddleheads.

Dean: Ok, you got me. I should have ended the sentence saying "...with a gun".

No, we are not talking a vegan tradition here.

[Ron Scott]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

A contemporary of Woolners, Paul Kurconnen(sp.) was a film maker in central Mass. He made a number of surf fishing films and hunting films, woodcock mainly, and he came up with the idea of the sawed off fiber glass gun and it spread in the local area. He tried with the available tools of the day but could not get any good grouse footage because of the light conditions. The Woolner brothers also knew Hal Lyman the owner of the 3rd Invincible. They all fished the outer cape and hunted grouse and woodcock.

Paul Kukonen had a little fly shop on Green Street in Worcester. The guy knew everything about fishing, building rods and fly tying. I think he (and his English setter) would sometimes sleep in the back room. The guy lived to fish and hunt. After he closed shop Jim Bender opened a fly shop on Madison St and carried on the tradition. Sadly they are both are closed now.

We always blamed Kukonen for ruining the West Branch of the Ponobscot River by informing everyone through his 8 mm films how great the fishing was there.