I will be after Bob White, Blue Quail, Partridge, Sharptails, and Pheasant pointed by my French Brittanys Molly, Belle, Red, Ginger, and Buddy. I hunt with French Brittanys because they are also my house pets. I will use an assortment of sub six-pound SxS guns in gauges 28,20,and 16, of English, European, or American manufacture all with correct double triggers. I like light guns because they aren't heavy. Of course on many of these hunts I will have my shooting student Joe Wood. I bring him along to carry my birds, shells, and also water for the dogs.

This is Ginger, taken two seasons ago when she was a pup.



Last year I drove to Kansas and instructed Last Dollar, Joe Wood, Chuck H, SKB, and Daryl Halquist in pheasant hunting. That is Belle, Red, and Ginger. Molly was so exhausted she wouldn't stay in the picture but kept loading up in the truck. My shooting student Chuck H. took the picture. That is a Parker VH12, 32" barrels choked full and full and weighing eight pounds. A light sixteen would have done as well.


Molly pointing a Bob when she was just seven months old.


An H Bissel 20 gauge with 26" barrels, weighs 5lbs 2oz with ejectors. Of course it is just a Birmy Boxlock


A Fox XE grade sixteen, weight 6lbs 5oz, 28" barrels. Three Texas Panhandle Bobs.


Left to right: Molly, Belle, Dubya, Beau, Red


You can just barely see Beau in the middle of the valley. This was taken near Slaton, Texas by my shooting student Joe Wood. There had been an ice storm and the mesquites were covered with a coat of ice and looked like crystal trees


Beau stole the point from his daughter Molly. As my wife points out Beau was a dead beat dad and generally lousy father.


Gallyon sixteen (Birmy Boxlock) with West Texas Quail. Weighs 5-3/4 pounds, extractors and 28" barrels


I am glad to be here.