anyone have a 12 bore DHE that us hunt with?

[Pheasant Slayer]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

a DH - but not an E -- a 12 bore 28 inch #1 frame

this was the first season- and I alternated it with a few others

but the pictures were here

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8306


It will get a little sprucing up over the winter

I went back and looked at your photos. Nice gun and birds. What bread is your dog? Looks to be in the Spaniel Family.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by William Maynard

I went back and looked at your photos. Nice gun and birds. What bread is your dog? Looks to be in the Spaniel Family.

English Setters - from the Old Hemlock bloodline started by George Bird Evans.

here is a link to photo alblum of the dogs some of us put together for the tenth reunion a couple years back.


http://www.oldhemlock.org/PhotoAblum...ring/index.htm

[Pheasant Slayer]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

English Setters - from the Old Hemlock bloodline started by George Bird Evans.

here is a link to photo alblum of the dogs some of us put together for the tenth reunion a couple years back.


http://www.oldhemlock.org/PhotoAblum...ring/index.htm

Thanks, I also meant "Breed" not "Bread" lol.. I must be getting old.

[Pheasant Slayer]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

English Setters - from the Old Hemlock bloodline started by George Bird Evans.

here is a link to photo alblum of the dogs some of us put together for the tenth reunion a couple years back.


http://www.oldhemlock.org/PhotoAblum...ring/index.htm

Great Pictures. I did a quick search on the Old Hemlock bloodline and it states that the breed did cross with Spanish Pointer and Springer Spaniel as well as Water Spaniels. You can see the Spaniel breed in the shape of it's head. Beautiful dog.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by William Maynard

Great Pictures. I did a quick search on the Old Hemlock bloodline and it states that the breed did cross with Spanish Pointer and Springer Spaniel as well as Water Spaniels. You can see the Spaniel breed in the shape of it's head. Beautiful dog.

well - the English Setter was originally created from those outcrosses back in the 16 and 1700's. The setter was a set breed by the early 1800s when Laverack and Llewellin lines came about. Most modern English setters will trace back to one of them.

George started with a Ryman Setter named Blue in the 1930's, and brought in one bench English Setter line for size and form and also several other small private setter lines. Look at the setters on a D or better Parker - the well done ones would fit right in our line. That was Georges goal - the old style foot hunting Setter that was being replaced by the smaller faster trial type.

[Marty K.]

Just wondered if that is Kay, George's wife in the pictures?

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Marty Kohler

Just wondered if that is Kay, George's wife in the pictures?

yes, Kay is in some of the pictures - the reunions started after GBE's passing -Kay lived to be 100 and when she could she attended. For example - picture #12 is Kay, at the reunion, #55 is at her 100th birthday party, #113 is one of OH Osthaus's visits with her at the Old Hemlock house.