Pheasant in NY with my VH Parker

I'd like to see more. After all, many of our beloved "Old Reliables" featured in their engraving- mainly pointing breeds I should guess- birds dogs and game birds--Great looking Setter in Sam, and the Springer looks ready to hunt- what is the black boxy thing on his collar? When I had Molly my Setter I used a sleigh bell on her collar when hunting grouse in the thick stuff-on pheasants she was easy to spot, like Sam, mainly white with the Belton ticking pattern in her coat! I used to rub a little Vaseline into her feathers on her ears and tail to allow easier removal of the burrs and seeds..

Just went to my favorite issue of the "Old- GSJ" Upland Birds 1977. Many great bird hunting stories therein, Ed Gray's "Mobius Strip" about the grouse hunter and the Jeep with his two dogs, stopping into a rural Upstate store in early Nov. (Uncle Perk in the Lower 40??) and buying a box of 16 gauge Number 8's- allgreat stuff- but the late "Splendid Splinter" who hit 406 in the year I was born- same year the "Yankee Clipper" hit in 56 consecutive games- wrote about the "Put and take" debacle in his native Mass back then--sad story-somehow quail don't always fly well if pen raised, pheasants can be "iffy" but I'll doff my blaze orange cap to "Sir Ruff"- he will never be a pen raised and stocked for shooting game bird-Thanks be for that!!