PA Grouse on a hot day

[Cold Spring]

Many of you know me as a Fox guy but I also like Parkers and some of the Ithacas and enjoy hunting with them too. Here’s a cell pic of good grouse I took today with my VH 20-bore. She's a half-pistol grip, has 28-inch tubes and is factory choked Cyl and Mod as per Chuck’s letter. All original. Ordered by DuBray and shipped to a firm in Kentucky in October 1906.

This is a walk up bird. It was 34 degrees at 10 am when I started at the first place, and once the fog burned away the temp shot up to 73 at 1 pm. Sunny and bright. Not much doing until I got on an old and small power line that crosses the mountain, and flushed 3 birds there within 2 hours. No shooting on the first two and this third one fell to a 7/8 ounce load of 7-1/2’s from a Remington field load. Its crop was full - and I mean full - of green leaf bits and clover from ground cover there. Find the food, find the birds.

The bird's fan is on a drying board now and measures 14-1/2", not the largest I've taken but still pretty decent.



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