once upon a time

[charlie cleveland]

just remembering a old hunt with the parker...was invited to go to kansas for a phesant hunt..i had never been on aphasant hunt before with a gun..i had followed my father several times when we lived in wisconsin but was to young to let hunt with a gun...for the trip i carried 3 guns a 20 ga parker i had got from russ jackson a lc smith 12 ga 32 inch barrells full and full chokes.....and i carried the lifter 8 ga with cut off barrels i only carried it to show my hostwho was calvin humberg..to this day this was my best hunt ever...our hunting dog was not of the usal breed bird dog he was a blue healer man he could he find them birds.....i apolgize to the dog for forgetting his name but we made friends first time out...i hope my old friend is still around for he was getting up in years at that time.. i hunted there for 7 days such a good time did i have seen lots of birds but could not hit worth anything the little 20done better than the 12 ga i think i should have had more open chokes on it....i must say my host and his family really took good care of us..best part was seeing calvins son shooting the 8 ga his father also shot it was a real hoot....i knew i was going to like this hunt when i pulled into walmarts parking lot to buy my hunting license there was a huge sign that said welcome hunters....the whole hunt was written by calvin and myself and deano wrote it up and put it in parker pages.that was about two years back if anybody wants to read the whole storey....i would like to return one more timeto see my friends the humberg family......charlie