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I own 12 and 16 gauge SxS. All pre WWII. They are American, British, Belgian, French, German and Czech. I love them all.




I hunt pheasant, sharpies, huns, ruffed grouse and want to try my hand at quail. I love the open plains of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the fields and draws of North and South Dakota. I love the great northern forest that sweeps across North America from Manitoba to New England. I hunt marshes and potholes for ducks and big prairie fields for geese. I love it all.





I have had 4 llewellin setters, sadly three gone now. But I have hunted with other breeds, labs, GSP's, Springers etc. Am even conspiring with a hunting partner to acquire a Llewellin and a Gordon and see what gets produced. But mostly, I love them all.



Chuck, my preference is to be hunting. Fine guns, fine quarry, fine places, fine dogs, fine friends.

No finer way to spend the day!

Llewellin Setters, the epitome of an upland bird dog. Fox 16 gauge shotguns (any grade will do)there is not much comparison for handling, reliability and grace, however, honorable mention goes to Uncle Dan's Lefevers. Hunting, Kansas Quail, Prairie Grouse and Pheasant in that order but I do enjoy hunting the mountain grouse of the Colorado inter-mountain region.

Cancasback those are some good looking dogs that you have there.

Steve,

When the girls are working a hen, I tell those hunting over my dogs not to get trigger happy. It always tickles me a bit that so many folks over the years are amazed that I can tell them before the flush wherther the bird will be a rooster or a hen.

You must understand though, my girls are not allowed into the field until they will absolutely hunt under control and that they each have more than a hundred wild roosters a year shot over them in the 110 or more days they spend it the field each year. Under control means that when I call "no bird" they immediately ignore the flyer and go back to hunting. After a season or two, never more than that, they will have been called off enough hen flyers that their body language differs when they are working a hen they know will not be shot and a rooster which in all probablity will be.

This is Belle, now a pensioner who has brought more than 1200 roosters to the bag. I would have to look in her journal to tell you what how many more is.




Belle and one of those who have gunned over her.



Shelby, Belle's understudy, is now nudging a 1000 roosters for her gunners.





Tess is Shelby's understudy and because I did not feel she was up to my expectations, did not go afield until her second Autumn. Now four and a with a late start she is has learned from just a bit more than 200 roosters.




There are seven of them in my kennel and they hunt anything with feathers I ask them to and for many, many wonderful sports, some as young as 12 and some as old as 83 and in any kind of weather.



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Oh and yes there is an understudy for Shelby. She started on the job this spring and maybe she will hunt birds this fall.

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I've owned my last bird dog (can't take the heartache of losing them anymore) but I agree with my good friend TwiceBarrel about the rest, and fortunately I'm in a family where decent Labradors abound!

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I think that pretty well describes how I feel about a few things. I own a fabric covered biplane, fascinated by the WW2 fighters rather than jets. I think that girls with tatoos are nasty, earrings belong on girls not guys, baseball hats should be worn with the brim forward, coffee is meant to be drank hot and black, beer cold, whiskey sparingly, wine with food. I think good bar-b-que (not grilled food) is finer food than chateubriand, beef wellington, or crepe suzzettes.

I think every kid should learn at an early age where our food comes from. I mean they should visit places that process our foods, including the animal variety. It strikes me as completely incongruent that a 8 yr old kid will want to go to McDonalds for a burger and not know it's from a dead cow.

Dang! Did I get off track? Crap! My adult ADD is flaring up again.

Ok, I like sxs guns, good dogs regardless of breed, and good hunting grounds. I have a particular fondness to hunt wild California valley quail with a .410 and a dog. I like hunting them over my lab, but I recently acquired an English Pointer to see if that's how I want to hunt them and because the lab is aging and the heat is often a challenge for a dog here. The jury is still out on the pointer type of hunting. The reason I like hunting with the .410 is that I found it was more rewarding when I actually took game with it. Many times more rewarding to me. I have a particular affliction for the early 20th century American .410's and other small bores. That's a narrow selection, but I have a few.

I like hunting with just me and a dog, but prefer to hunt with one or two friends.

Here's the new one.


Me, my bro-in-law, my dogs. (Amarillo Mike's birds, our birds were too big to lug into the picture)


The double malt ... er I mean double gun militia

But Chuck, those earings and lip piercings just make a guys eyes daaaance!

Thats why we dont let Amarillo Mike hunt with us no more...Love those last pics Chuck!

RCC, Great pictures, especially the ones with the kids in them. Does my heart good to see all those little smiling faces. We need as many as we can get.

James

I hunt over a pair of German Wirehairs, an English Pointer and a Lab. I enjoy both pointing breeds and flushers. I hunt a wide variety of birds every year from ND to AZ, so having both types is a good thing IMO. Over all though I enjoy my wirehairs most as I am comfortable with their range and I like walking in on a point. As far as guns go I hunt now days 90% of the time with my Dickson Waverly model in XXV configuration. When not using that I shoot a S&W Elite Gold.

Great pics, great dogs....