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Had a great Saturday morning with Floyd, Stan, and the girls-Willa, Abby and Sadie.
Stan had to leave before the last bird of the hunt and the photo. Found plenty of birds, not in the usual spots, but in the unusual spots for us. On the hill, out of the swamp and mixed in with the pines and huckleberry bushes. Very skittish and wild flushers. Two good men to know and hunt with, Floyd and Stan. Depicted guns are Floyd�s Ithaca SKB 100 20 gauge and my new-to-me E&G Higham 16 gauge. Blooded it today. Floyd is not only a great shot, he is a professional artist with a specialty of bird carvings. Here are two of his woodcock he whittled and painted today on the tailgate of my truck post hunt. He carves the leaves out of thin metal.

Really nice work on the Timberdoodles!!

Last day of the season in Georgia. Beautiful day; Billy, Willa, Abby and I had a great day. As usual, Willa and Abby did better at their jobs than their 2 legged hunting partners did at theirs. Billy is the third generation of his family to shoot and hunt the Remington Model 32. It is depicted with 20 gauge barrels. His granddad bought it when it first came out and had Simmons make 12, 20 and .410 for skeet. Someday it will be his son�s and we all hope that won�t be in the near future. The double is my E&G Higham 16 which I first blooded Saturday.

When I looked at the first picture of the woodcock it looked to me that it was mounted, then read the post. Outstanding work and great colors. Can't imagine the time spend on the flying one.

Thanks for sharing, both beautiful real and carved birds.

Floyd is a great guy and also a talented artist. Here are portraits of my sons he did as well as a Teal he carved and a quail painting

Duck hunt in coastal Georgia with the Lefever I Grade. Been a rough season here. Too warm and now too much rain and flooding

Great pix, both of you! I especially love that Rem 32 and story. Guess you got your investment back on that one....about 26 times over!

Mills, those are mighty fine portraits of your sons and hanging quail. Nice "working" decoy, too.
The rest of the story of Monday�s hunt: Floyd drove his truck and took Clark. Sadie was left home in favor of his old dog Snap (12) and Pop, both Brittanies. We met and split up with Billy, Abby, Willa and I going in one direction and Floyd, Snap, Pop and Clark another direction. During the hunt, each group could hear the other shoot as we were not more than half mile apart. Clark and Floyd ended up with 5 birds. Snap is as deaf as a post and can�t hear commands or a whistle. He has to round her up by virtue of a gps collar. Several times yesterday, he found her on point. The �group� photo is the total bag for four hunters. It is a painful thing to hear shotgun blasts when you aren�t in the birds at the time. For lunch, I cooked two birds on my homemade �vertical roaster�. Temperature over 500 degrees for 10 minutes yielded medium rare birds, olive oil coated, salted and peppered. There are more elaborate ways to cook woodcock, but they would be hard pressed to be that much better than what I had for lunch at noon today.