A guy who got his start in my neck-o-the-woods. Taught literature at one of our sister Missouri institutions, wrote for the Missouri Conservationist (and published articles in that magazine that became the basis for his first shotgun book), hunted with Missourians, Joel Vance and Spencer Turner, hung out in the border regions of Iowa-Missouri (my stomping grounds), and generally knew his shotguns. My first inclination toward double guns was inspired by Michael and Joel Vance.
Thanks for the education, Mr. McIntosh.
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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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